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Dale Stromberg is the author of the high fantasy novel Mæj (tRaum Books, 2024), the curio fiction novel Gyre (2025), and the oddball collection Melancholic Parables (2022). He grew up not far from Sacramento before moving to Tokyo, where he had a brief music career. Now he lives near Kuala Lumpur and makes ends meet as an editor and translator.

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	Melancholic Parables 4.91 avg rating — 23 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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	After Dinner Conversation - Season Two by After Dinner Conversation Magazine, Kolby Granville, Nathan Ahlgrim it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Three Parables: After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series 3.87 avg rating — 15 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
	Instant Classic: That No One Will Read by Tucker Lieberman (Goodreads Author), Ryszard I. Merey (Goodreads Author), Zilla Novikov (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 12 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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	Extinction Events (Planet Scumm #14) by Sean Clancy (Editor), Maxine Sophia Wolff, Marie Vibbert (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2022	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 Chorochronos Archives by Jessica Augustsson (Goodreads Author), Susanne Hülsmann, Mike Adamson 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021 — 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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A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

Affinity with Maej: Tales of magic and speculation with sometimes mystical, sometimes estranging effects.

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“Lessons of faith defy the mind. Shut your mouth. Stop pretending to know anything. Do not learn the truth. Do the truth. Our faith taught us to renew that palace so that we might watch it decay. We knew it would decay. Knowing was useless. We had to watch it.”
― Dale Stromberg, Maej

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