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Olga Werby
Goodreads Author
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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September 2015
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Harvest
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2019
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Becoming Animals
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The Fatoff Conspiracy
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2015
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God of Small Affairs
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2019
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Suddenly, Paris (Many Worlds, One Life #1)
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2009
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Pigeon (The Ornis Experiment #1)
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2015
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Good Girl
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Mirror Shards
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2021
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Twin Time
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State Fair Season
It’s the start of a summer and thus a start of a county fair season. And last week, we took our granddaughter (16 months) to her first state fair. It was a new experience for her and a very different one for us this year.
It’s been years since we were at a county fair last. They were always fun, if exhausting. We took our boys for years — the rides, the animals, the crafts, the art competitions
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It had to be David Bowie. First contact story from the other side. It was like looking at the world through a funhouse mirror…or was the mirror flat? |
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Le Guin is a master world builder. She conjures worlds and societies that are not only broad and detailed but deep with histories that makes sense. And she does so effortlessly. Her characters are not just dropped into these fictional realms, they are ...more |
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Can’t recommend strongly enough! Just read it. You won’t be sorry! |
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Today, it would be a collection of blog posts… …amusing anecdotes of personal life mixed a bit with a personal philosophy about writing. |
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A nice conclusion that brings together threads from the rest of the books. If I could give it 4.5 stars, I would have. It’s good, but it’s no Ender’s Shadow… |
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If you can change one thing, what would it be? What are the consequences? And if you could change the world, should you? Interesting premise written with all of the passion and compassion of the incomparable genius of Ursula K. Le Guin. |
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“Societies continuously try to recreate themselves — shared holidays, shared news, shared traditions, shared language, shared music, shared myths, shared victories, and shared griefs. Shared origins… So by telling each other stories, we recreate ourselves over and over again. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Who are our heroes? Who are the villains? These stories pass our values as a society from one generation to the next. It’s how we understand each other.”
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“Humans seem to have a really hard time learning from their own mistakes. History is often forgotten, warnings from the past not heeded. But we do enjoy a good story or two. So how about learning from the future? Jew-ish Sci-Fi is a prophetic genre. Lot’s of people write in it. Lot’s of people enjoy reading it…even the ones who focus on werebears…”
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“Our memories are not static. Each time we reach for one, we refresh and form new neuron connections, in fact changing the memory itself via our contemplation of it. Like Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle — we can observe a particle’s momentum or its position but not both simultaneously — each time we recall a particular event, we change it due to that recollection. After the mental touch, the memory is no longer the same. And this is true not just in some metaphorical sense, but in a real, tangible, physical way — the act of recall alters the neuron structures forever! And yet we eagerly recollect our favorite memories, and we just as eagerly try to forget the painful ones (and the very act of thinking of those painful memories makes them that much stronger, that much more connected and integrated into our neural memory networks).”
― Becoming Animals
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“Having had some experience as a sci-fi writer myself, I found Suddenly Paris to be a very nicely written, YA Sci-Fi novel that turns the story of THE MATRIX on its head. It explores the following question. What if, instead of being people trapped in a synthesized dream world, we only think we are real? The ethical and existential questions that go along with computer generated characters inside a simulation acquiring self-awareness without an awareness that they are living in a simulated world are dealt with in a very entertaining story. Enjoy.”
― The Second Ship
― The Second Ship
“When I think of cyberpunk, I inevitably relive in my mind the awesomeness that was William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk masterpiece, Neuromancer. That book changed the way I looked at science fiction and revitalized the promise it held to the world. Lizard Girl & Ghost comes as close to that experience and that promise as anything I've read since.”
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“Becoming Animals" is a very interesting, enjoyable, and thought-provoking read; a brilliant addition to the libraries of science fiction and fantasy fans, as well as anyone who simply enjoys a good story.”
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“Harvest" is a deep and meaningful exploration of the complexities regarding the origins of the human race as well as the intentions of an alien species.”
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