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Madeline Ashby

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Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. She has been writing fiction since she was about thirteen years old. (Before that, she recited all her stories aloud, with funny voices and everything.) Her fiction has appeared in Nature, Tesseracts, Escape Pod, FLURB, the Shine Anthology, and elsewhere. Her non-fiction has appeared at BoingBoing.net, io9.com, Tor.com, Online Fandom, and WorldChanging. She is a member of the Cecil Street Irregulars, one of Toronto's oldest genre writers' workshops. She holds a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (her thesis was on anime, fan culture, and cyborg theory) and a M.Des. in strategic foresight & innovation (her project was on the future of border secur ...more

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	Company Town 3.51 avg rating — 5,067 ratings — published 2016 — 17 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
	vN (The Machine Dynasty, #1) 3.44 avg rating — 3,025 ratings — published 2012 — 19 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
	iD (The Machine Dynasty, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 2013 — 17 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
	reV (The Machine Dynasty, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2020 — 6 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
	Take Us to a Better Place by Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author), Hannah Lillith Assadi, Calvin Baker (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2020 — 7 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
	Embodied by Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author), Gwenda Bond (Goodreads Author), Sarah Gailey (Goodreads Author) 2.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2019	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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	The Education of Junior Number 12 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 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
	The Machine Dynasty Omnibus by Madeline Ashby (Goodreads Author), Martin Bland (Illustrator) 3.80 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
	Milk+ 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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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“Being sad is normal. It's despair that is the enemy. Despair is like a badly sealed window. It allows all manner of things to leak inside. That's what it means to be haunted. To be cursed. It's when something takes root in the soul, the way mold can take root in the walls.”
― Madeline Ashby, Robots vs. Fairies

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“She belongs with me, not to me.”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

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“Charlotte leveled him with a glare the likes of which he had never seen in synthetic women. It seemed to penetrate his every cell, as though she were watching him decay one picosecond at a time”
― Madeline Ashby, vN

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What should be our June 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (North/Central America)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (USA)

12 votes 19.4%

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (Mexico/USA)

11 votes 17.7%

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson (USA)

9 votes 14.5%

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul (Canada)

8 votes 12.9%

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

7 votes 11.3%

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (USA)

5 votes 8.1%

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier (USA)

4 votes 6.5%

Republic Of Dirt : A Return to Woefield Farm by Susan Juby (Canada)

2 votes 3.2%

Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival by Carmina Salcido (Mexico/US)

2 votes 3.2%

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (USA)

1 vote 1.6%

Company Town by Madeline Ashby (Canada)

1 vote 1.6%

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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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