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Daniel Ribot

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Born

in Valencia, Spain

Genre

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

Influences

Michael Moorcock, Jaroslav Hasek, Kurt Vonnegut JR ...more

Member Since

June 2012

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My earliest memory is of my mother buying sweets for me in a shop. It must have been a local shop, because I knew the owner. He was friendly, bald and had a stump instead of a hand. The shop had a parrot and as soon as I got my sweets, I gave them one by one to the brightly coloured bird. The parrot unwrapped them with its beak and claws and ate them, all the time staring at me with a beady eye.

The shop was in Saragossa, nowhere near where Count Jan Potocki found his manuscript.

Don't know if that memory has any significance, but if it does, it is my love of the weird, the exotic and the strange.

I have been many things in life. A traveller, living by turns in Spain, the UK,France, Mexico, New Zealand and Germany.

I have written novels, a doct ...more

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	Faction Paradox: Burning with Optimism's Flames by Jay Eales (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Evershed, Simon Bucher-Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Vampsov 1938 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Phoenix Square by Karen Perkins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Wright, Pat Kings 3.50 avg rating — 2 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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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.”
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