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Richard Ellis Preston Jr.

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Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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Jules Verne, Michael Ondaatje, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck

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Richard Ellis Preston, Jr. is a science fiction and historical fiction author whose first published work is the "Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin" steampunk series from 47North. Richard was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Ontario, Canada. He attended the University of Waterloo where he obtained an honors B.A. in English with an Anthropology minor. He also earned a Radio and Television Broadcasting degree with Honors and Distinction from Algonquin College in Ottawa. He worked as an ENG cameraman for CBC Canada before attending the York University film program on a talent scholarship. He then relocated to California where he wrote screenplays for film and television, including programs aired on HBO, USA, Animal Planet and Fox Kids. Ric ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 1,845 ratings · 273 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 1,063 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
	Romulus Buckle & the Engines of War (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Romulus Buckle & the Luminiferous Aether (Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	An Officer and a Gentleman 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The League of the Sphinx: the Purple Scarab 3.91 avg rating — 11 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
	The Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin 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
	Imaginarium: A Collection of Westmarch Fiction by Cynthia Moyer, Joseph Brassey (Goodreads Author) , Robert Kroese (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	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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“Think of it! An opportunity to remake the world! An opportunity to create a steam-driven utopia! To re-educate humanity to despise violence. And what do they do, those incompetents? They opt for the pretty clothes and the empire-mad European imperialist culture of the 19th century. Damn those fools. Those geeks, arrogant, myopic, ivory tower board gamers. Damn them.”
― Richard Ellis Preston Jr., Romulus Buckle and the Luminiferous Aether

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July SCIENCE FICTION: This first round poll decides which 2 books will go on to the second round of polls for our July 2014 SF Book-of-the-Month.

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

21 votes, 19.3%

Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks

15 votes, 13.8%

Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

14 votes, 12.8%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

14 votes, 12.8%

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel

9 votes, 8.3%

Lexicon by Max Barry

8 votes, 7.3%

The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

6 votes, 5.5%

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

6 votes, 5.5%

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

5 votes, 4.6%

Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

5 votes, 4.6%

Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders by Richard Ellis Preston Jr.

3 votes, 2.8%

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

1 vote, 0.9%

The Beginning by Kevin J. Howard

1 vote, 0.9%

Alien Taste by Wen Spencer

1 vote, 0.9%

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