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Jeremy Szal

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in Sydney, Australia

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera

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Jeremy Szal was born in 1995 and was raised by wild dingoes, which should explain a lot. He spent his childhood exploring beaches, bookstores, and the limits of people’s patience. He’s the author of the Common trilogy from Gollancz, a space opera trilogy, which includes STORMBLOOD, BLINDSPACE, and WOLFSKIN, about a drug harvested from alien DNA that makes users permanently addicted to adrenaline and aggression. He likes writing about broken heroes looking for hope in dark worlds, found families, aliens, outcasts, and morally-grey heroes who don't always do the right thing, even when they want to.

He’s the author of over fifty science-fiction short stories, translated into six languages, published in many anthologies and podcasts. He was the ...more

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	Stormblood (The Common, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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
	Where the Stars Rise by Lucas K. Law (Editor), Derwin Mak (Editor), Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2017 — 8 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
	Blindspace (The Common, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2021 — 7 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
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73, June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dayo Ntwari (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.34 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2016 — 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 King Must Fall by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Sarah Chorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2022 — 7 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
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 2, January 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeremy Szal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Richard K. Morgan (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Scream in Blue 4.59 avg rating — 32 ratings	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
	Wolfskin (The Common, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — 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
	Broken Stars 3.64 avg rating — 11 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
	The Common 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“The people that matter to us aren’t always meant to be in our lives for ever. But the things they did to make you a better person can be.”
― Jeremy Szal, Stormblood

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“We’re all orchestrations of carbon. Blood and bone and dreams and madness and love and hate swirling inside us all. And with it, the capacity to destroy or save ourselves and everyone around us. You just have hope you won’t destroy, because, in the end, hope’s all we have. Hope that you won’t self-destruct. Hope you’ll do right by the people you love. Hope that you’ll be a better man tomorrow than you were today.”
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tags: dreams, failure, hope, love, self-destruction

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“Strange how the ones judging the cost of violence never up paying in full for it.”
― Jeremy Szal, Blindspace

tags: injustice, violence

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