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Seth Dickinson

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Since his 2012 debut, Seth's fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Analog, and nearly every other major science fiction and fantasy market.

He's a lapsed student of social neuroscience, where he studied the role of racial bias in police shootings, and the writer of much of the lore and fictional flavor for Bungie Studios' smash hit Destiny. In his spare time he works on the collaborative space opera Blue Planet: War in Heaven.

THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT is his first novel. ...more

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	The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 25,090 ratings — published 2015 — 22 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 Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 7,752 ratings — published 2018 — 9 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 Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3) 4.32 avg rating — 4,713 ratings — published 2020 — 9 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
	Exordia 3.69 avg rating — 2,164 ratings — published 2024 — 8 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
	Please Undo This Hurt 3.54 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command 4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013	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
	Three Bodies at Mitanni 4.48 avg rating — 33 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
	Edge of Eternities by Seth Dickinson (Goodreads Author), AnaMaria Curtis (Collaborator), RJ Taylor (Collaborator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 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
	Untitled (The Masquerade, #4) 4.46 avg rating — 13 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
	The Monster by Seth Dickinson (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Author C.L. Clark is no newcomer to the sci-fi and fantasy scene. Though she just published her first novel, The Unbroken, earlier this year,...

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Seth Dickinson rated a book it was amazing The Privilege of the Happy Ending: S/M/L Stories by Kij Johnson	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
If you could write like Kij you could write anything. You can't, but you can try to get a little closer. ...more
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Seth Dickinson answered Matt's question: How are you doing lately? Any update on the 4th Baru book? I worked on it a lot and then I stopped. I will work on it again. No timetable yet though.
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Seth Dickinson made a comment on .’s review of Untitled (The Masquerade, #4) " Sorry I suck so much :( "
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I have a lot to say and I don't think I trust anyone else to say it right. Just have to get something down now and edit a better review in later, brain permitting. If I don't get to a longer review by the time the book comes out - please trust the boo ...more
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“This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.”
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“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”
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“Your error is fundamental to the human psyche: you have allowed yourself to believe that others are mechanisms, static and solvable, whereas you are an agent.”
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February 2019 BOM Poll: Rivals/Enemies to Lovers

The Pedlar and the Bandit King by Kirby Crow

12 votes, 21.8%

Skythane by J. Scott Coatsworth

11 votes, 20.0%

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

9 votes, 16.4%

My Own Human by Arizona Tape

7 votes, 12.7%

Daughter of the Sun by Effie Calvin

7 votes, 12.7%

The Ronin and The Fox by Cornelia Grey

5 votes, 9.1%

Prickly Business by Piper Vaughn

4 votes, 7.3%

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“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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