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Linda Nagata

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I'm a writer from Hawaii best known for my high-tech science fiction, including the near-future thriller, The Last Good Man , and the far-future adventure series, INVERTED FRONTIER.

Though I don't review books on Goodreads, I do talk about some of my favorite books on my blog and those posts are echoed here. So I invite you to follow me for news of books and many other things. You can also visit my website to learn more about my work, and to sign up for my newsletter.
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This is re-posted from my June newsletter:

Aloha,

I’m late again with this newsletter, though not so late as I’ve been in the past. The truth is, I’m in a fallow period when it comes to writing—even the writing of newsletters—and as I’ve confessed before, progress on the fifth and last book in the Inverted Frontier series has been slow. But it will get there!

In the meantime, I wanted

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“It’s the doom of our species that psychopaths always want to be in charge.”
Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“We think we can plan our lives," he muttered. "We think we can model reality. But chaos is an intrusive, inconsiderate bitch.”
Linda Nagata, The Bohr Maker
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“We hold each other and I’m shaking, because I’m thinking how close I came to losing her. If she’d been closer to ground zero in San Diego, she’d be dead now. So many people are dead, because for decades citizens like me and my dad, my uncle, and Lissa’s parents—good people—quietly financed war after war because it’s easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system. Our silence let wealth accumulate in the hands of people like Thelma Sheridan, people who came to believe they could buy absolutely anything, even innocence.”
Linda Nagata, First Light

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