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Anne Charnock

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Anne Charnock's novel DREAMS BEFORE THE START OF TIME is the winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was shortlisted for the BSFA 2017 Best Novel Award. Her latest novel, BRIDGE 108, is written in the same world as her debut novel, A CALCULATED LIFE — a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick and The Kitschies Golden Tentacle Awards.

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 Charnock'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 School of Art, Eng ...more

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	A Calculated Life 3.65 avg rating — 2,101 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind 3.21 avg rating — 1,083 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49, June 2014: Women Destroy Science Fiction! by Christie Yant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robin Lupo (Editor), Wendy N. Wagner (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 762 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Dreams Before the Start of Time 3.30 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 2017 — 4 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 3.59 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	2084 by George Sandison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Desirina Boskovich (Goodreads Author), Malcolm Devlin 3.80 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Enclave 4.20 avg rating — 56 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) 3.93 avg rating — 30 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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It’s always a pleasure to look back on the books I’ve read during the year to pinpoint my favourites. During 2022, I have to admit I read far fewer novels than usual. I devoted most of my reading time to research, and I will keep those non-fiction books under wraps for the time being. When choosing my fiction reading, as in the first half of 2022, I tended to pick novels that

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Anne Charnock answered George Cartwright's question: Dear Anne. This isn't exactly a question but a result. I'm a musician and use the words 'Stick Insect' as the title of a recording. You can hear it here: https://mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/stick-insect I wrote the liner notes. I feel a bit like this isn't the place to tell you this but thought I'd give it a try. Please remove this if it is inappropriate.?George Cartwright Hi George, Thanks for this and for your subsequent email. I'm delighted that A CALCULATED LIFE (which opens with a scene where Jayna tends her stick insects) has inspired the title of your recording! I do enjoy seeing inspiration migrating to another See Full Answer
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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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“There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes—Taniyama proved the point—as long as one’s intuition is sound.”
― 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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October Science Fiction -- the following poll decides which two books will go to the final round of polls for October 2019's Science Fiction BOTM

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

14 votes, 20.9%

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

12 votes, 17.9%

Excession by Iain M. Banks

11 votes, 16.4%

Blindsight by Peter Watts

10 votes, 14.9%

Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

10 votes, 14.9%

The January Dancer by Michael Flynn

4 votes, 6.0%

Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock

3 votes, 4.5%

The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman

3 votes, 4.5%

67 total votes

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Anne’s Quotes

“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

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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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