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Zachary Mason is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey, a variation on Homer; Void Star, a science fiction novel about artificial intelligence; and Metamorphica, based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He lives in the Bay Area.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 7,882 ratings · 1,448 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lost Books of the Odyssey 3.90 avg rating — 3,657 ratings — published 2007	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
	Void Star 3.67 avg rating — 2,572 ratings — published 2017 — 18 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
	xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (Editor, Contributor), Brian W. Aldiss (Contributor), Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 965 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
	Metamorphica 3.72 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 2018 — 11 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
	Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan by Nick Mamatas, Masumi Washington (Editor), Miyuki Miyabe 3.41 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Fabrications 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 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
	Re:Telling by William Walsh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Martone, Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011	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
	Fairy Tale Review: The Yellow Issue #9 by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Lily Hoang (Foreword), Emily Carr (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 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

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I like to think that Odysseus found only a few of the monsters and witches haunting the islands, that there were innumerable other dangers he...

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Now and then a book drops into the world as though from some distant, astonishing, essentially alien literature, an exemplar of some deeply other idea of what a book can be. House of Leaves is one, and delightfully. As such, it is all but indescribabl ...more
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“As their song crescendoed I had the sudden conviction that the world, which I had considered the province of meaningless chances, a mad dance of atoms, was as orderly as the hexagons in the honeycombs I had just crushed into wax and that behind everything, from Helen's weaving to Circe's mountain to Scylla's death, was a subtle pattern, an order of the most compelling lucidity, but hidden from me, a code I could never crack.”
― Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey

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“It seemed odd no one had thought of it before but in general there is no accounting for the bovine stupidity of mankind.”
― Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey

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“I lift up my voices and shatter the night with my emptiness, my heartlessness. With nothing now to bind me, the world is a hunting ground.

- Scylla”
― Zachary Mason, Metamorphica

tags: monstrosity, mythology, odyssey, rage, scylla

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What shall we read in April.
Please note, by voting in this poll, you're really saying that if your book wins you plan to read and discuss.

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

27 votes, 39.7%

The Son by Philipp Meyer

14 votes, 20.6%

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

13 votes, 19.1%

The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason

9 votes, 13.2%

Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore Colum McCann

5 votes, 7.4%

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