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Sameer Ketkar

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Sameer Ketkar is an author of all genres, from drama, to historical fiction, to thriller, to romantic comedy, to scifi, to satire, to children's, and everything in between. Mr. Ketkar started off as a screenwriter, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in screenwriting from the University of Southern California. He has written one feature film, the thriller "Backwaters," and has written and directed a handful of short films and music videos. Since 2011 he has been publishing novels. ...more

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Feeling subversive this holiday season? Then my new book might be for you! Simple Tricks and Nonsense is a scathing religious satire set in a scifi universe where spacesuits are a burqa-type clothing required for both sexes, disco dancing is a form of prayer, the Star Wars movies are a sought-after Holy Grail, and God himself is the story's unreliable narrator.

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Published on December 28, 2016 14:10 • Tags: comedy, ebook, hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy, humor, life-of-brian, messiah, monty-python, new-book, paperback, parody, religion, satire, science-fiction, space-opera, subversive, weird

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Sameer Ketkar’s books

Average rating: 3.86 · 202 ratings · 97 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Staged Fright (Bodies, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 77 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
	God's Glass 3.95 avg rating — 38 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
	Entanglement 4.06 avg rating — 32 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
	Victory Blvd. 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014	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
	Simple Tricks and Nonsense 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	A World in a Dew Drop 4.80 avg rating — 5 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
	The Rabbi and the Abyss 3.33 avg rating — 3 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
	Collapse the Stars: a Fifth Realm novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
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	Verses of the Moon: a Fifth Realm novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy

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