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Robin Gilbert

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in Pyle (it feels like a city to a child), The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Slipstream

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I've been games programming for over 30 years (starting with the Spectrum) and writing for over 20. Blimey, that sounds a lot. I live in Brisbane with my wife, two children and Nelly and Flossie the cavoodles. We also unwittingly support the local possums.

I love to write science fiction (with an unhealthy interest in dystopian worlds, about which my Speckledom series of stories is about, beginning with Brightly Falling) and fantasy (the Gateway World stories, of which The Watchman's Daughter is my most recent). I also dabble in a strange kind of fantasy / humour hybrid (the vastgreen forest; Double Negative) and occasionally feel compelled to write a slipstream tale (Elysium).

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I've thrown my latest 3 novels onto amazon (to join the p...

I've thrown my latest 3 novels onto amazon (to join the previous 3 and novella) for those kindle lovers out there. Thank you all for your continuing support.

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	The Watchman's Daughter (The Watchers Series, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Moonstone 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Galea Blu (The Speckledom Recital, #2) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Belar really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pierre et les Cambrioleurs 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Brightly Falling it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twisted Nascence (The Speckledom Recital, #3) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Looking Back on the Summer of '87 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Night Watch (Discworld, #29)

by Terry Pratchett

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Cosmos

by Carl Sagan

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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“You cant have everything. Where would you put it?”
― Steven Wright

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“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force

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