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Mark J. Oliver

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime

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Mark J. Oliver is the author of two novels, THE ALLIANCE OF REMARKABLE LANDLORDS, a contemporary adult fairy tale and THE RIFT RIDER, a science fiction story that blends action adventure, quest, romance, and surfing.

Mark was born in Gloucestershire, England. After Graduating from Cardiff University and brief spells temping in Brighton, Gloucester and London, Mark left the UK to start teaching English as a foreign language. He has an MA in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).

Over the last fourteen years, he has lived and taught in Australia, Japan, Brazil, Portugal, Thailand, Singapore, Lebanon, Taiwan and Sri Lanka. He has also worked on teacher training projects with UNRWA in Lebanon and the British Council in Borneo.

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My sci-fi adventure, The Rift Rider, is free this Thursday (7th Sept) on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N4Y4NES

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Mark

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“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

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