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Spencer Ellsworth

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Spencer Ellsworth lives in Bellingham, WA, teaches at a tribal college, plays in too many bands, and writes his little brain out. He is the author of The Great Faerie Strike from Broken Eye Books, about a plucky union leader gnome and young investigative report vampire, who join forces to take on the alchemists and sorcerers industrializing the Otherworld.

He is also the author of the space opera Starfire Trilogy from Tor, and his short work has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Tor.com, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Michael Moorcock's New Worlds Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and a whole bunch of anthologies and little markets, and been recommended by Locus and other venues. You can find more about him at spencerellsworth.co
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Spencer Ellsworth Sooo many... Nicky Drayden's The Prey of Gods, for good cyberpunk-y fun in South Africa. Have had Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl In The Ring & Michael Li…moreSooo many... Nicky Drayden's The Prey of Gods, for good cyberpunk-y fun in South Africa. Have had Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl In The Ring & Michael Livingston's The Gates of Hell on my bedside table for a while. Hoping to get through both when work dies down a bit.(less)
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Memory's Blade (Starfire, #3)

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I have actually read this book thrice, although the first two times were just me kind of trying to figure out what was happening, which explains why the third time was much more enjoyable.

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“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”
Spencer Ellsworth, Swords & Steam Short Stories
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“Yes, good," Z says. "Fire again. Blood and honor!"
"Tomatoes!”
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“IT WAS THE MORNING after the morning after my hundred and fiftieth birthday, and a terrible noise was trying to wake me up.”
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