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R.A. MacAvoy


Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
December 13, 1949

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Roberta Ann (R. A.) MacAvoy is a fantasy and science fiction author in the United States. Several of her books draw on Celtic or Taoist themes. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1984. R. A. MacAvoy was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Francis and Helen MacAvoy. She attended Case Western Reserve University and received a B.A. in 1971. She worked from 1975 to 1978 as an assistant to the financial aid officer of Columbia College of Columbia University and from 1978 to 1982 as a computer programmer at SRI International before turning to full-time writing in 1982. She married Ronald Allen Cain in 1978.

R.A.MacAvoy was diagnosed with dystonia following the publication of her Lens series. She now has this disorder manageable and h ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.86 · 13,897 ratings · 1,080 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors
Tea with the Black Dragon (...
3.95 avg rating — 5,276 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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The Book of Kells
3.62 avg rating — 2,076 ratings — published 1985 — 19 editions
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Damiano (Damiano, #1)
3.82 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 1984 — 22 editions
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The Grey Horse
3.99 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 1987 — 20 editions
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Twisting the Rope (Black Dr...
3.69 avg rating — 792 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions
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Lens of the World (Lens of ...
3.93 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 1990 — 24 editions
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Damiano's Lute (Damiano, #2)
3.86 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 1984 — 21 editions
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Raphael (Damiano, #3)
3.79 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1984 — 18 editions
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King of the Dead (Lens of t...
3.99 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1991 — 25 editions
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The Belly of the Wolf (Lens...
3.99 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions
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Series by R.A. MacAvoy

Tea with the Black Dragon Twisting the Rope
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Lens of the World King of the Dead The Belly of the Wolf
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3.96 avg rating — 67 ratings

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“Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences...”
― R.A. MacAvoy, The Book of Kells
tags: book-of-kells
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“But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still.” Martha”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon
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“Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon
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July FANTASY: This first round poll decides which two books will go on to the second round for our July 2014 Fantasy Book-of-the-Month.

 
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