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Kestrel Casey

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Humor and Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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April 2012

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Kestrel Casey is an author, activist, and defective manic pixie dream girl.

They are the author of the Phaethon and Planetary Tarantella trilogies, and have published short stories in anthologies from Tyche Books, ‎Art Over Chaos Publishing, and more. They are a member of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

They also live with chronic illness, play ukulele, and try to save the planet.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 441 ratings · 143 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Unburied Fables by Kestrel Casey (Goodreads Author), Saffyre Falkenberg (Goodreads Author), Emmy Clarke 3.87 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2016 — 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 Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun (Planetary Tarantella, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 88 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
	Phaethon (Phaethon #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 86 ratings — 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
	A Word and A Bullet (Planetary Tarantella, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 39 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
	Gay Apparel: A Queer Holiday Flash Fiction Anthology by Kestrel Casey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rose Sinclair (Goodreads Author), Caitlin Greer 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2019	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
	Pharos (Phaethon #2) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020 — 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 Very Next Day 4.33 avg rating — 6 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
	Organic 3.83 avg rating — 6 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
	Bottle Runs Dry 4.40 avg rating — 5 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
	Phantasma (Phaethon Series Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 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

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I’m writing this in a moment of digital platform upheaval. It isn’t the first—Myspace sank slowly under the sea, while Tumblr collapsed suddenly under the weight of investment capital—but it may be the most grotesque. I’m sure there will be plenty of retrospectives written about TikTok in the next few years. For now, I would have to summarize by saying that TikTok very briefly banned itself before

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Planetary Tarantella (2 books)
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Amberlough (The Amberlough Dossier, #1)

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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)

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“At the edge of the pit, she launches herself into the air: Jane of the Jungle, the Human Volleyball, Centrifugal Force Girl. For four seconds, she flies. And of those four seconds, she only screams in terror for three.”
― Rachel Sharp, The Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun

tags: flying, terror

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“Possibly this is some demonstration of how amazing the human brain is, adjusting and readjusting reality, plugging up potential crazy with a handy coping mechanism. As for myself, I think it demonstrates that the human brain is made of recycled monkey bits and pure, unadulterated stupid.”
― Rachel Sharp, The Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun

tags: brains, humanity, stupid

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“We took off for the tree line, leaving the wounded soldiers to wonder how they'd been beaten by four misfits and a horse.”
― Rachel Sharp, A Word and A Bullet

tags: battle, misfits, silly

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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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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury