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Richard Seltzer

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in Clarksville, TN, The United States

February 23, 1946

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Author of two dozen books, I've been editor, novelist, Russian translator, parttime spy, Internet evangelist, and ebook entrepreneur. I've published children's fantasies, historical novels, and pioneering books about how to do business on the Internet. As a spokesperson for Digital Equipment, a tech leader in the early Internet, I saw how consumer choices and business models molded the outcomes we live with today. My latest book, "In Flux," puts AI into context and suggest how we can nudge the future toward either serving us or oppressing us.

I graduated from Yale, with a major in English and went to grad school there in Comparative Literature. At Yale I had creative writing courses with Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller.

In my 70s I've fi ...more

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	The Lizard of Oz really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1974 — 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
	Beyond the 4th Door really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 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
	The Name of Hero 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981 — 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
	Let the Women Have Their Say: a Trojan Novel 3.14 avg rating — 7 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
	Nevermind 4.20 avg rating — 5 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
	Saint Smith and Other Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Now and Then and Other Tales from Ome 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	In Flux by Richard Seltzer (Goodreads Author), Tim Seltzer 4.67 avg rating — 3 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
	We All Are Shakespeare it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Parallel Lives 4.50 avg rating — 2 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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Pushcart Prize XLV

The Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition by Bill Henderson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Fall River Wife by Peter Orner
The Samples by Kristopher Jansma
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Richard Seltzer rated a book it was amazing Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) by Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)	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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Premise -- Aliens stopped briefly on Earth while on their way to somehwere else. They had a "roadside picnic" here. leaving behind high tech gadgets taht to them were trash. They made no attempt to contact earthlings and probably don't intend to retu ...more
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Reread this 30 years later. Appreciate it more. I've changed and the world has changed. Now a line like this rings all too true: "Stalin and his subjects are always lying, at every opportunity, every minute, but because they never stop they no longer e ...more
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Intriguing. Capek had an amazingly good grasp on the issues of AI development long before there were computers of any kind. A couple of memorable passages: "... human labor has become unnecessary, because suffering has become unnecessary, because man n ...more
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I just read this book for the third time. It's less coherent than Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, but there are passages I mark in pencil and savor, like: Life passes. The clouds change perpetually over our house. I do this, do that, and again do ...more
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I read this for the second time as research for my novel Nevermind, which will soon be published by All Things That Matter Press. This is now my favorite Woolf novel. Read it yet again, seven years later. Amazed by the immediacy and the continuity of ...more
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Richard Seltzer rated a book it was amazing Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf	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
For the third time. This is a book you need to read at least twice. First to learn the vocabulary of peple and places and memories, of expectations and self-awareness. To bcome famliar with that social world, that context -- like learning a foreign la ...more
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Extraordinary. Well worth the long slog. WWII as it was lived/experienced.
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message 7: by Tracey

Sep 26, 2020 04:26AM

Thanks so much for the goodreads friendship Richard!

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message 6: by Majenta

Jul 17, 2020 11:06AM

Hello, Richard! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books. Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Happy Friday, have a great weekend! Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta

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message 5: by Richard

Jul 04, 2020 07:49PM

Thanks. I'm new here.
I've kept a list of every book I read since 1958, and I'm entering them all here. So I'm quickly getting a high number of "books read" but I know very little about how goodreads works.
Richard

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Jul 04, 2020 07:40PM

Hi,

Thanks so much for the friend invite! Welcome to GR! :)

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message 3: by Tani

Jun 21, 2020 05:15AM

Thanks for the friend invite. Looking forward for your bookish updates. Happy Reading! <3

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message 2: by Richard

Jun 05, 2020 04:53PM

Kasia wrote: "Thank you for the friend invite, I've added covers to some of the books you had on here that were missing and I will fix some of the data as well so all links :)"

Thank you.
Richard

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message 1: by Kasia (last edited Jun 05, 2020 04:46PM)

Jun 05, 2020 04:46PM

Thank you for the friend invite, I've added covers to some of the books you had on here that were missing and I will fix some of the data as well so all links :)

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