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Robert Schell

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Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy

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Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Steinbeck, Walter Te ...more

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Salutations! I feel that a brief introduction is necessary to let you, the prospective reader, know where I came from and where I'm coming from as a writer. So to start, I grew up in poverty-stricken, unincorporated communities of south Texas known as colonias. I say this not to invite sympathy or to make any pretense that my life was more difficult and interesting than it actually was; I and my siblings enjoyed a fairly comfortable life as things go. Nevertheless, I distinctly remember reaching such milestones as getting phone service (a party line), paved roads, indoor plumbing, and finally moving into a house that wasn't directly adjacent to agricultural fields regularly strafed by crop dusters, so I won't pretend that I'm nostalgic for Salutations! I feel that a brief introduction is necessary to let you, the prospective reader, know where I came from and where I'm coming from as a writer. So to start, I grew up in poverty-stricken, unincorporated communities of south Texas known as colonias. I say this not to invite sympathy or to make any pretense that my life was more difficult and interesting than it actually was; I and my siblings enjoyed a fairly comfortable life as things go. Nevertheless, I distinctly remember reaching such milestones as getting phone service (a party line), paved roads, indoor plumbing, and finally moving into a house that wasn't directly adjacent to agricultural fields regularly strafed by crop dusters, so I won't pretend that I'm nostalgic for those days like it was a "Little House on the Prairie" idyllic existence. My first avenue of escape from the limiting realities of my existence, aside my own imagination, was science fiction. Besides television programs such as "Land of the Lost," "Star Trek," and "Battlestar Galactica" (for which my ardor was so great that I actually drew my own "Battlestar Galactica" comic book and created my own Viper models out of popsicle sticks), I engrossed myself in the works of authors such as Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, and Jules Verne, as well as books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J.R.R. Tolkien and Marvel comics. Later, music (especially rock music of the psychedelic variety) became rather an obsession, and music and fantastic fiction continue to be my great loves in life. Although sci-fi always had an escapist element, I also felt that the best science fiction held a mirror (or magnifying glass, really) up to reality, as all great art should. In my writing I strive to hold up that magnifying glass. And though I wandered far from my Rio Grande Valley roots in various pursuits (education, entertainment, search for new experiences, enlightenment, stardom) I suppose it was inevitable that my paths and writing would return me, full-circle fashion, to my "launching pad." I currently reside, write, maintain an increasingly unwieldy collection of LPs and CDs, and practice law in south Texas. ...more

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Caroline and Tony ride again

Yes, Book II of Temporal Affairs, 'The Mariner King' is finally out. At this point a few of you have been given the opportunity to read it, and I appreciate all reviews and feedback I've received.

Those of you familiar with Book I, 'The Foster Children of Time' may be surprised by some developments in this current installment of Temporal Affairs. When I set out to write 'The Mariner King,' I was n Read more of this blog post »

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	The Foster Children of Time (Temporal Affairs, Book 1) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 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
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“There is zero chance he has reformed. I take that back. If there were a number with a more negative value than zero, a number that conveyed that there was no chance of something happening under any set of circumstances in any universe, that would be the number I would assign the possibility that he has reformed.” (The Mariner King)”
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“Important events may be shaped by chance and natural factors -- disease, famine, prosperity, even weather – but the thoughts and desires of men, whether those of the most pious men and women or those of the most shameless rogues are often the driving hand on the tiller of history.”
― Robert Schell, The Foster Children of Time

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“I never learned to read girls. I guess I'm girl-illiterate.”
― Robert Schell , The Foster Children of Time

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“I never learned to read girls. I guess I'm girl-illiterate.”
― Robert Schell , The Foster Children of Time

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