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Roger P. Heath

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Roger P. Heath a life-long geologist whose favourite film is It’s a Wonderful Life, and whose bookshelves include works such as Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky, Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen, and Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy.

The peculiar workings of his mind once threw out a phrase: No one knows but I, who wrote this here and why. He captured the thought, then laid the journal aside. Many sun-cycles later, he found those dust-laden notes and decided to find out what those words meant. This led him to Lanky, Jessica, and Beth. And Naga and the Iyes. And Shadow and the Ka. And ... Well, to the tale of the Warriors of the Continuum, a tale of courage, love, and hope cast in both shadow and light.

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	Warriors of the Continuum Part One: Arrival 4.47 avg rating — 55 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
	Warriors of the Continuum Part Two: Deception (Warriors of the Continuum Trilogy Book 2) 4.40 avg rating — 15 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
	Warriors of the Continuum Part Three: Life (Warriors of the Continuum Trilogy Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 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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Roger Heath liked a quote “The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented as a warning, but often quite complacently. Socialism is never considered as an alternative, and democracy is quite forgotten. Military virtues are taken as ethical ones. Wealth is assumed to be a righteous goal and a personal virtue. Competitive free-enterprise capitalism is the economic destiny of the entire Galaxy. In general, American SF has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women.” Ursula K. Le Guin
Dec 18, 2025 10:49AM · like · more quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Roger Heath liked a quote “If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.” Ursula K. Le Guin
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Roger Heath made a comment in the group SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — What Else Are You Reading in 2025? topic " I’ve just finished one of Ursula Le Guin;'s short stories, City of Illusions, and it has a fascinating conflict to resolve at the end. I don’t want to ...more "
Dec 11, 2025 03:13PM
Roger Heath made a comment in the group SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — What are your top 5 favorite books/series? topic " David wrote: "In no particular order: - LotR - Wheel of Time (even though it gets slow in the middle, I still like it) - Malazan Book of the Fallen (on t ...more "
Dec 11, 2025 11:01AM
Roger Heath shared a quote “Genre, a concept which could have served as a useful distinction of various kinds of fiction, has been degraded into a disguise for mere value-judgement. The various “genres” are now mainly commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers. lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.” Ursula K. Le Guin
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Roger Heath rated a book really liked it Mr Foote's Other Leg by Ian Kelly	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
This book hooked me from the start with a disputed inheritance, a scheming sea-captain, and a despicable murder. As with all that unfolds around the edgy talents of Mr Foote, Ian Kelly paints a colourful picture of Georgian London and its theatrical ...more
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Roger Heath rated a book it was amazing This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (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
I found this a really intriguing, well executed tale that cleverly invoked a truly visionary sense of scale while being grounded in the actions/reactions of the two protagonists. The breadth and complexity of the greater war was breathtakingly immens ...more
Oct 10, 2025 03:00PM · like · see review
Roger Heath made a comment in the group SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — More Thomas Covenant? topic " I read the first three chronicles in the 80's, and subsequently followed the embittered writer's epic journey in the Land through to the finale in The ...more "
Oct 04, 2025 03:34PM
Roger Heath made a comment in the group SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — First Line (Guess the Book) topic " "For ten thousand years, the bright empire of [?] ruled the world, drawing her power from terrifying compacts with the supernatural." (I'm looking for ...more "
Oct 04, 2025 02:41PM
Roger Heath made a comment in the group SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — How many of our Club Books have you read? topic " Lee wrote: "Interesting list, definitely helps discover some authors that I never heard of. Have read a few dozens of the books on the list, but with ...more "
Oct 04, 2025 02:19PM

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“Would we stand on faraway mountains, casually observing the ravaging of our Land, the destruction of our peoples, our loved ones destroyed before our eyes?" Naga's eyes blazed with anger. “What then? We would be left standing there on our grand mountain, tears streaming down our faces, asking how could this happen? What could I have done? Many useless questions asked by those who do not take part, who do not put themselves in the stream of history. Bystanders hoping that others will guide their future for them.”
― Roger P. Heath, Warriors of the Continuum Part One: Arrival

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“Genre, a concept which could have served as a useful distinction of various kinds of fiction, has been degraded into a disguise for mere value-judgement. The various “genres” are now mainly commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers. lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

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“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

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“The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes presented as a warning, but often quite complacently. Socialism is never considered as an alternative, and democracy is quite forgotten. Military virtues are taken as ethical ones. Wealth is assumed to be a righteous goal and a personal virtue. Competitive free-enterprise capitalism is the economic destiny of the entire Galaxy. In general, American SF has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: science-fiction, social-change

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