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Anne Charnock

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Anne Charnock's novel ALSTON MOOR is a work of eco-fiction and it will be published on 1st September 2026.

Her novel DREAMS BEFORE THE START OF TIME won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her debut novel, A CALCULATED LIFE, was a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick and The Kitschies Golden Tentacle Awards. BRIDGE 108, is written in the same world as this debut.

SLEEPING EMBERS OF AN ORDINARY MIND, her second novel, was named by The Guardian as one of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015

Anne's journalism has appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied Environmental Sciences, and at The Manchester Schoo ...more

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	A Calculated Life 3.66 avg rating — 2,168 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind 3.22 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Dreams Before the Start of Time 3.28 avg rating — 819 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Bridge 108 3.58 avg rating — 408 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
	The Enclave 4.17 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Phantasma: Stories by Anne Charnock (Goodreads Author), J.D. Horn (Goodreads Author), Kate Maruyama (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015	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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Over the moon with this beautiful cover and spine art by Heather Ryerson.

I began my preparatory work for this novel in January 2021 after months of mulling over how I could wr

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“She had interesting cracks on her ceiling, which she had mentally enhanced and colored to make a virtual series of 723 abstracts.”
― Anne Charnock, A Calculated Life

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“An Experiment: To introduce random activity into daily routines, forcing a shift into uncharted territory and new experiences.”
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APRIL SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the April 2014 SF Book-of-the-month.

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

15 votes, 20.5%

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

15 votes, 20.5%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

14 votes, 19.2%

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

7 votes, 9.6%

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

6 votes, 8.2%

Gridlinked by Neal Asher

5 votes, 6.8%

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel

5 votes, 6.8%

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

4 votes, 5.5%

A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

2 votes, 2.7%

73 total votes

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“But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: dystopian-fiction, science-fiction

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“Luck is the grand equalizer.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: mathematics

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“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: mathematics

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

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Aug 26, 2014 07:23AM

Thank you for the friendly GR invite. It was a pleasure reading and reviewing A Calculated Life

It seems we have similar tastes in literature. I look forward to sharing the experience as readers on GR.

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Aug 24, 2014 03:25PM

Very kind!! I'll watch for your book recommendations :D

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