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Brian Martinez

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in East Meadow, NY, The United States

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http://www.bloodstreamcity.com/

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Genre

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thriller

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Hunter S. Thompson, Denis Johnson, Craig Clevenger, ...more

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Brian Martinez is a science fiction and horror writer. He studied Film at Long Island University, and has been known to watch a John Carpenter flick on repeat until people grow concerned. He lives in New York with his wife Natalia and their pack of dogs.

Martinez is known for numerous apocalyptic works, including A Chemical Fire, The Mountain and The City, and the Bleeders series. He also writes The Vessel, a Space Horror podcast on all major platforms. His works have appeared on screen and in print, as well as on Youtube and in audiobook.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 684 ratings · 124 reviews · 37 distinct works

	The Mountain and The City, Part I 3.38 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	A Chemical Fire 3.60 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2010 — 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 Mountain and The City: The Complete Saga 3.84 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	A Good Clean, A Harsh Clean 3.25 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2010 — 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 Mountain and The City, Part II 3.79 avg rating — 42 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
	The Mountain and The City, Part III 4.07 avg rating — 28 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
	The Mountain and The City, Part IV 4.09 avg rating — 23 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
	The Mountain and The City, Part V 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012 — 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 Body Farm 3.76 avg rating — 21 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
	Kissing You is Like Trying to Punch a Ghost 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 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

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I'm very happy to announce that, after a long and unplanned hiatus, space horror podcast The Vessel will be debuting new episodes in March. This has been a long time coming, and I'm grateful to everyone who patiently (and sometimes impatiently) waited for its return. All of your questions, whether posted online, in reviews, or emailed directly to me, kept the engines burning long enough to keep t Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Brian Martinez

The Mountain and The City (6 books)
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The Obscured (3 books)
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The Nest

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“Christopher throws dandelion head after dandelion head into his bag. It's getting heavy now and his fingers are stained from the work but there are still so many left to kill. His biggest mistake is giving them names.”
― Brian Martinez, Kissing You is Like Trying to Punch a Ghost

tags: dandelion, funny, odd, quirky, weeds

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“Corporate life made no sense in the Darwinian world.”
― Brian Martinez, Bleeders: Book 1, The Red Death

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“Corporate life made no sense in he Darwinian world.”
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Polls

Whatchoo wanna discuss in August? Don't vote on a book unless you will read and return to discuss it, k?

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
$4.79 Kindle, cheap used paperback
1972, 398 pages, average GR rating 4.02
http://amzn.com/1932100016

5 votes, 31.3%

Flotilla by Daniel Haight
2012, 238 pages, AR 4.27, $4.99 Kindle
http://www.amzn.com/B006DTYYK4

5 votes, 31.3%

The Mountain and The City: The Complete Saga by Brian Martinez
2012, 348 pages, AR 3.95, $2.99 on Kindle
http://amzn.com/B00AH38XFY

3 votes, 18.8%

The Scarlet Plague (Science Fiction Collection) by Jack London

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
1911, 98 pages, AR 3.61, free
http://amzn.com/1556560370

3 votes, 18.8%

The Death of Grass by John Christopher
1956, 222 pages, AR 3.87, paperbacks starting at $7.35
(no official ebook)
http://amzn.com/0141190175

0 votes, 0.0%

16 total votes

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Brian’s Quotes

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: reading

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“The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.”
― algernon blackwood

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