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Yaron Glazer

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in Tel Aviv, Israel

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In the time before memory there was a boy and he loved to read. He read like it was going out of style, which it was, though he didn’t realize it at the time even though the characters in his sci-fi novels never read books. This boy could read for hours on end, often staying up through the night and only noticing when it was like 6 am and daylight was creeping in under the blinds. He finished all 6 of the Dune books in 3 weeks this way, and all 5 books of the Hitchhiker’s trilogy.

That love grew and grew, and soon the boy started reading literary fiction. He chewed through the classics. He had a Russian period. He vowed to finish every book he started. He read Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest, and then he read them again. The ...more

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Statisticity Now Available for Pre-Order

Statisticity, my Shanghai-based science fiction project, is now available on the iBooks store exclusively as an enhanced ebook.

At its core, Statisticity features a standalone, novel-length dystopian thriller shorn of the plodding exposition and cumbersome world-building that weigh down many entries in this genre. Throughout the book, highlighted words allow readers to access a third dimension wit Read more of this blog post »

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The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)

by William Gibson

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Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

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Yaron Glazer said: " If you're looking for an action-packed, character-driven space opera by Stephenson, then you've come to the wrong place. You should read Anathem instead, a superior book on every level.

Seveneves is most notable for introducing yet another way that t ...more "

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