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Clayton Smith is a writer, teacher, and entrepreneur based in Chicago. He is an assistant professor of instruction in the Business and Entrepreneurship Department at Columbia College Chicago, and he is the co-founder of Media Empire Media. His work includes the novels Apocalypticon, Anomaly Flats, and Na Akua and the comedic plays Death and McCootie and The Depths.

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	Apocalypticon 3.78 avg rating — 1,773 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
	Anomaly Flats 3.75 avg rating — 712 ratings — 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
	Pants on Fire: A Collection of Lies 3.49 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Post-Apocalypticon (Apocalypticon #2) 4.37 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	It Came From Anomaly Flats 4.01 avg rating — 117 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
	Mabel Gray and the Wizard Who Swallowed the Sun (The Mabel Gray Adventures, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2015 — 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
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	The Keyhole Heart 4.08 avg rating — 25 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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The Strange Struggle With Broken World

My progress on Broken World (Apocalypticon 3) has been slow. I mean, it’s been absolutely glacial. I know that. And believe me, I’m more frustrated by that than you are.

But I’ll say this: As I work on it, and as I get deeper and deeper into the story, I’ve been surprised. REALLY surprised. (SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t read Post-Apocalypticon, stop reading this!) When I started writing it, I thou

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Clayton answered Jerry's question: Any plans to get any of your other books, like Anomaly Flats, published in audio format on places like Audible? Wow, you leave Goodreads for two years, and you miss a question! Sorry about that! I'm happy to report that Anomaly Flats is indeed an audiobook!
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“I’m hoping for a broadsword,” Patrick said, crossing his fingers. “We can go all Game of Thrones on Arkansas.” “I’ve always hated Arkansas,” Ben considered. “We all do, Ben. We all hate Arkansas.”
― Clayton Smith, Apocalypticon

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“Ben nudged him gently. “Don’t piss them off, they wield the God-force,” he whispered. “I don’t think you know how religion works,” Patrick whispered back.”
― Clayton Smith, Apocalypticon

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“waiting patiently for her to finish eating her coffee and drive it away into the night—out of Missouri, up through the plains, and into Saskatchewan, to Lenore’s place, where everything would be okay.”
― Clayton Smith, Anomaly Flats

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