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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Michael R. Underwood
Goodreads Author
Born
in Bloomington, IN, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia E. Butler, China Mieville, War
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Member Since
July 2007
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Geekomancy (Ree Reyes, #1)
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2012
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7 editions
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Celebromancy (Ree Reyes, #2)
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2013
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6 editions
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Attack the Geek (Ree Reyes, #2.5)
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2014
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6 editions
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The Shootout Solution (Genrenauts, #1)
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2015
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Hexomancy (Ree Reyes, #3)
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2015
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5 editions
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Shield and Crocus
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2014
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4 editions
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Annihilation Aria (The Space Operas, #1)
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2020
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10 editions
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The Absconded Ambassador (Genrenauts, #2)
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2016
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4 editions
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The Younger Gods (Younger Gods, #1)
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2014
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5 editions
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There Will Always Be a Max (Genrenauts #0.5)
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2016
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2 editions
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Bastion of Hope cover reveal
Presenting – the cover for Bastion of Hope, my campaign frame of defiant fantasy, for use with the Daggerheart rules! Cover art by Shaun Ellis, cover design by Andrew Beauman
Pdf forthcoming in Spring 2026 on DTRPG, itch.io, and Heart of Daggers.
In Bastion of Hope, Dragons and Necromancers rule the world with sorcery and spite. They loom over bustling cities and use precarity to keep workers hu
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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are
the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes
and forgot -- Sandman”
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the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes
and forgot -- Sandman”
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“Vampires used to be the Dracula types, but in the last ten years most of them have become weak, brooding androgynes that only go after teenagers. A friend of mine took the opportunity to rid his whole city of them after the forth Mormon Vamps book hit and the sparkle meme was at its strongest."
"So does that make Ms. Mormon Sparkle Vamp a hero?"
"Of a sort. Before they started to sparkle, there were a lot of vamps who were tortured antiheroes, thanks to Rice and Whedon."
Ree grimaced. "Do you know if she was clued in?"
Eastwood shrugged. "She's very secretive, no one in the Underground has been able to say for sure. It's all rumor. My guess is she lost someone to a vampire and decided the greatest revenge she could inflict was to turn them into a laughing stock.”
― Geekomancy
"So does that make Ms. Mormon Sparkle Vamp a hero?"
"Of a sort. Before they started to sparkle, there were a lot of vamps who were tortured antiheroes, thanks to Rice and Whedon."
Ree grimaced. "Do you know if she was clued in?"
Eastwood shrugged. "She's very secretive, no one in the Underground has been able to say for sure. It's all rumor. My guess is she lost someone to a vampire and decided the greatest revenge she could inflict was to turn them into a laughing stock.”
― Geekomancy
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“Rhiannon Anna Maria Reyes, (Strength 10, Dexterity 14, Stamina 12, Will 17, IQ 16 and Charisma 15 -- Geek 7 / Barista 3 / Screenwriter 2 / Gamer Girl 2) was Bryan’s secret weapon. Rhiannon (known to practically everyone as “Ree”) kept the café in fabulous baked goods, talked authoritatively about subjects from Aliens to Zork, and drew the attentions of countless lovelorn geeks.”
― Geekomancy
― Geekomancy
“The room continued to spin though she was standing still, but her ears were hot. She felt like she'd just slammed three doubles of tequila and needed a fistfight chaser.”
― Geekomancy
― Geekomancy
“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery .... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot.”
― Tolkien On Fairy-stories
― Tolkien On Fairy-stories
“You could not save him.” Dretta nodded. “But he saved you. And you, Merros Dulver, you are supposed to save us from these Sa’ba Taalor when they attack. That’s what I keep hearing. That you are a hero and will keep us safe from the people that killed my husband.” Her voice was calm as she looked away from him to layer slices of roast meat and bread on his plate. When she looked up at him again her eyes were dry. “Keep us safe. Keep me safe. And while you are doing that, I want you to find the bitch that murdered my man and I want you to carve her head from her body.” Her voice was still calm; as if she were discussing the crops she might plant on the last lands of her villa. “Bring me her head and prove to me that my husband made the right choice in dying for you.”
― The Blasted Lands
― The Blasted Lands
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