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Rob Dircks

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in New York, The United States

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Science Fiction, Humor

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Rob Dircks is the Audible bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla? and The Wrong Unit , and a member of SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America). His prior work includes the anti-self-help book Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential By Doing Less , and a drawerful of screenplays and short stories. Some of these sci-fi short stories appear on his original audio short story podcast Listen To The Signal, also narrated by the author.

Rob's a big fan of classic science fiction, and conspiracy theories (not to believe in them, just for entertainment.) When not writing, he's helping other authors publish their own work with Goldfinch Publishing, writing and designing for the award-winning ad agency he own ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 2,030 ratings · 437 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Where the Hell is Tesla? 3.76 avg rating — 1,266 ratings — published 2015 — 5 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 Wrong Unit 4.26 avg rating — 445 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
	Don't Touch the Blue Stuff! (Where the Hell is Tesla? #2) 4.26 avg rating — 183 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
	Where the Hell is Tesla? - Part One 3.66 avg rating — 56 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
	Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential By Doing Less by Rob Dircks (Goodreads Author), Dave Dircks (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Where the Hell Is Tesla? - Part Two 4.47 avg rating — 15 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
	Alphabert! An A-B-C Bedtime Adventure by Rob Dircks (Goodreads Author), Dave Dircks (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 5 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

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I Got to Narrate Bob, the New Middle Grade Novel by Wendy Mass!

Wow. This thing happened, and it went like this: an author tweets that she likes my audiobooks, so I tweet back “thanks,” and one thing leads to another and suddenly I’m in New York City at Penguin Random House Audio, recording the narration for her next novel!

That’s Wendy Mass up there in the photo with me, New York Times bestselling author of middle-grade books including The Candymakers, A Ma...

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Rob Dircks liked Thomas Allen's review of Don't Touch the Blue Stuff! (Where the Hell is Tesla? #2): "Rob Dircks does a great job of creating a really fun, new and original story with the elements of Where the Hell is Tesla. And he does this with a more grown-up (but still irreverent and enjoyable) main character. In addition to saving the multive..." Read more of this review »
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Rob Dircks made a comment on his review of Don't Touch the Blue Stuff! (Where the Hell is Tesla? #2) " Thomas wrote: "I enjoyed the hell out of it as an audiobook. I'm off to write a positive review now." Thanks Thomas! "
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Rob Dircks and 2 other people liked Monica Alarcon's review of Where the Hell is Tesla?: "Imagine David Wong writing an episode of Rick & Morty and you'll have an idea What this book is like..."
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Rob Dircks and 1 other person liked Bear Bibeault's review of Where the Hell is Tesla?: "Story is entertaining. Narrator (author) sounds a lot like H Jon Benjamin."
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Rob Dircks made a comment on his review of The Wrong Unit " James wrote: "Rob, I have never said this before, but your book should become a classic, on the level of Hemingway and Tolstoy and Dickens...rarely ha ...more "
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This book was a slow burn end-of-it-all tale, full of detail and wonderful writing. I listened to the audiobook, and for the first half hour or so, I was scratching my head about the narrator, the tone was almost blase, but once I understood that Sno ...more
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“(Official Interdimensional Travel Observation #2: you’d think that meeting yourself in another dimension would cause a total freak-out of the infinite order, pants-pissing, screaming, etc. But it’s the total opposite: weirdly calming. Like “Hey bro, I know you! Let’s go get a beer.”) But”
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“Even when you’ve given up on life, annoying sounds are annoying sounds and must be dealt with. ”
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