Dennis Black

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September 2023


Creating .epub fiction – highly formatted and in color – for a specific vanishingly·small target audience = literate ∩ numerate ∩ imaginative.

Wrote/writing the Strains science·fiction series, like nothing you've read before, a unique sub·genre – see instructions on page 1.
• 9781962461009 – #1 Above the Sun
• 9781962461016 – #2 An Imperfect Storm
• 9781962461023 – #3 The Guardian Dæmons
• 9781962461030 – #0 The Ball Hab
• 9781962461122 – #⅞ After Flawed Dreams
The numbering is out of sequence, due to prequels.

Translated 2 plays – old masterpieces, 1 in verse.
• 9781962461085 – Love without Stockings by Johan Herman Wessel
• 9781962461108 – The Trojan War Has Been Canceled by Jean Giraudoux
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Above the Sun (Strains Book 1)

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“Facing·up to the past means turning away from the future.”
Dennis Black, Above the Sun

“The Law of Unintended Consequences is most harshly enforced when th'intended consequences are most crucial.”
Dennis Black, After Flawed Dreams

“Money is an abstract construct used primarily for facilitating theft.”
Dennis Black, The Guardian Dæmons

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Goodreads Librari...: translator name disambiguation 1 1 7 hours, 54 min ago  
“The Universe can be in error.
A sure sign of error is that it's universal.”
Jean Giraudoux, "La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu."

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