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Michael McCloskey

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I am a software engineer in Silicon Valley who dreams of otherworldly creatures, mysterious alien planets, and fantastic adventures. I'm also an indie author with over 140,000 paid sales.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 7,741 ratings · 469 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Trilisk Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 2,755 ratings — published 2005 — 6 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 Trilisk AI (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 2) 3.93 avg rating — 917 ratings — published 2013 — 5 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 Trilisk Supersedure (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 3) 3.95 avg rating — 680 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 Trilisk Hunt (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 4) 3.92 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2013 — 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 Trilisk Revolution (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 5) 3.92 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Insidious 3.72 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2010 — 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 Celaran Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels, #6) 3.94 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2014 — 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 Celaran Probe (Parker Interstellar Travels, #7) by Michael McCloskey (Goodreads Author), Howard Lyon (Cover Artist) 4.20 avg rating — 207 ratings — 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 Celaran Refuge (Parker Interstellar Travels, #8) 4.35 avg rating — 186 ratings — 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 Celaran Solution (Parker Interstellar Travels, #9) by Michael McCloskey (Goodreads Author), Stephan Martinière (Cover Artist) 4.30 avg rating — 161 ratings — 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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Kriseel Temple Released

The Kriseel Temple has been published. It is currently available at Amazon and Smashwords. Other vendors will be delayed by a few days.

This book is the 20th book in the PIT series.

Here is the Squidlord page:

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Series by Michael McCloskey

Parker Interstellar Travels (14 books)
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Michael McCloskey (Goodreads Author),

Howard Lyon (Cover Artist)

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Synchronicity Trilogy (3 books)
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Michael McCloskey (Goodreads Author)

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Michael McCloskey wrote a new blog post Kriseel Temple Released The Kriseel Temple has been published. It is currently available at Amazon and Smashwords. Other vendors will be delayed by a few days. This book is th Read more of this blog post »
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Michael McCloskey made a comment on Is Intelligence Asymptotic? " Alex wrote: "That's a great dialogue Michael! Is it from a book (one of Hugh's perhaps)? Or something you made up yourself (or maybe ChatGPT did LOL)? ...more "
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Michael McCloskey and 9 other people liked Hugh Howey's blog post: Is Intelligence Asymptotic? "The hopes and fears of runaway artificial intelligence both share something in common: that intelligence can run away at all. But it isn’t clear to me that this is so. It’s just as likely that there are a finite number of things to know and an inf..." Read more of this blog post »
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Michael McCloskey liked Scott Entrikin's review of Insidious (Synchronicity Trilogy Book 1): "Fun Interesting characters, plot line, and a really creative use of super intelligent AI as a temporary weapon. A fun read."
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Michael McCloskey liked Globalt38's review of The Created: "I read it to the end It was interesting enough for me to finish it and find out what happened so that earned it 3 stars. Otherwise it was hard at times as it was overly descriptive and wordy in how it was written. It read at times like how a child tel" Read more of this review »
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“Three reasons: you need to know how the technique fails, you need to be able to perform it under stress, and you have to lose your fear of discomfort.” Discomfort. He means my fear of pain.”
― Michael McCloskey, The Trilisk Ruins

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“encroaching”
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“galactic stage.”
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Michael’s Quotes

“Long are the lives of elves' he said.

Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.”
― William King, Giantslayer

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“Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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“Those Bugs lay eggs. They not only lay them, they hold them in reserve, hatch them as needed. If we killed a warrior—or a thousand, or ten thousand—his or their replacements were hatched and on duty almost before we could get back to base. You can imagine, if you like, some Bug supervisor of population flashing a phone to somewhere down inside and saying, “Joe, warm up ten thousand warriors and have 'em ready by Wednesday ... and tell engineering to activate reserve incubators N, O, P, Q, and R; the demand is picking up.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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