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Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. They live on a small isle off the coast of the Eurasian continent.

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	The Deep by Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author), Daveed Diggs, William Hutson 3.78 avg rating — 30,495 ratings — published 2019 — 21 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
	An Unkindness of Ghosts 3.97 avg rating — 18,433 ratings — published 2017 — 17 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
	Sorrowland 3.83 avg rating — 11,171 ratings — published 2021 — 20 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 Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by The New York Times, Caitlin Roper (Contributor)(Preface), Rivka Galchen (Contribiutor)(Introduction) 3.57 avg rating — 1,356 ratings — published 2020 — 25 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 Vela by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author), Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author), S.L. Huang (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 891 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Blood Is Another Word for Hunger 3.68 avg rating — 781 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author), Siobhan Carroll, John Chu 3.63 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One by Paula Guran (Editor), G.V. Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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
	St. Juju 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2019	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
	Model Home 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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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“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: belonging, loneliness

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“Forgetting was not the same as healing.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

tags: forgetting, healing, mermaid, mermaids, rivers-solomon, slavery, the-deep

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“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

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4th Quarter 2018 - SciFi #2

Rosewater by Tade Thompson, 432p

6 votes, 33.3%

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, 351p

5 votes, 27.8%

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, 704p

4 votes, 22.2%

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton, 768p

1 vote, 5.6%

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White, 480p

1 vote, 5.6%

The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, 502p

1 vote, 5.6%

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, 624p

0 votes, 0.0%

Darknet by Matthew Mather, 371p

0 votes, 0.0%

Thrawn by Timothy Zahn, 427p (Oct)

0 votes, 0.0%

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“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: inspirational

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“I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: awareness, growth

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