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Rivers Solomon writes about life in the margins, where they are much at home. They currently live and write in Cambridge, UK, but they originally hail from the US, where they received their MFA from he Michener Center for Writers and their BA from Stanford University.

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	The Deep by Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author), Daveed Diggs, William Hutson 3.79 avg rating — 10,086 ratings — published 2019 — 12 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 4.02 avg rating — 8,954 ratings — published 2017 — 15 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 3.69 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2019 — 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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	The Vela by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author), Siobhan Carroll, John Chu 3.64 avg rating — 129 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 Decameron Project by The New York Times (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author), Edwidge Danticat 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2020	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
	Better Worlds by Laura Hudson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Justina Ireland (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), All in Pixel (Video, Illustrator) 3.42 avg rating — 12 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

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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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“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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“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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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%

The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, 502p

1 vote, 5.6%

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

1 vote, 5.6%

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

1 vote, 5.6%

Thrawn by Timothy Zahn, 427p (Oct)

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Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, 624p

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Darknet by Matthew Mather, 371p

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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

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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

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