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Nathan L. Yocum

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Speclitwriter

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

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Nathan L. Yocum is an author, teacher, and entrepreneur living on the Big Island of Hawai'i. His novels, The Zona, Automatic Woman, and The Strong Brain are available through Curiosity Quills Publishing.

He is also the editor-in-chief of SpecLit Masters Magazine and has short stories featured in Writers on the Wrong Side of the Road, Lamplight Dark Fiction Quarterly (Issue #1), Curiosity Quills Primetime, and Curiosity Quills After Dark. ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 551 ratings · 152 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Zona 3.27 avg rating — 264 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
	Automatic Woman 3.63 avg rating — 120 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
	Chronology by J.R. Rain (Goodreads Author), Piers Anthony, Tony Healey (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Primetime by J.R. Rain (Goodreads Author), Tony Healey (Goodreads Author), A.W. Exley (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 46 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
	LampLight - Volume 1 Issue 1 by Jacob Haddon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), William Meikle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nathan L. Yocum (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Borderlands Anthology (The Actuator, #1.5) by James Wymore (Goodreads Author) (Editor and author), Aiden James (Goodreads Author) (foreword), Matthew S. Cox (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	After Dark by A.W. Exley (Goodreads Author), Jose Prendes, Nathan L. Yocum (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Writers on the Wrong Side of the Road by Sassy Brit (Editor), Clayton Clifford Bye (Goodreads Author) (editor), Nathan L. Yocum (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 11 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 Strong Brain 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	SpecLit Masters 1: H.P. Lovecraft by Paul Anthony Jones, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathan L. Yocum (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	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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Quotes by Nathan L. Yocum (?)

“The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they are fools. Mark my words, the pseudointellectual will be the death of us all.”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

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“Church and God ain't the same thing. From what I know, God's perfect. The Church makes mistakes... God's about order, Church is about power, as best as I can figure, to be against one is not to be against the other.”
― Nathan Yocum, The Zona

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“Good people will outlast the rule of the Church. No rule of law lasts for long, and there is nothing that can wholly destroy the good and evil that lives in man. It's ours to own for the duration of time and whatever exists beyond.”
― Nathan Yocum, The Zona

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Nathan’s Quotes

“Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor.”
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“Fortune smiles at a man on occasion, but misfortune rains down from on high with fury and volume. My dad used to say that.”
― Nathan Yocum, Automatic Woman

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