Mur Lafferty (Author of Six Wakes)

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Mur Lafferty

老虎机稳赢方法 Author

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor

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February 2009

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Mur Lafferty is the author of Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Hugo and Nebula nominated novel Six Wakes, The Shambling Guides series, and several self pubbed novels and novellas, including the award winning Afterlife series. She is the host of the Hugo-winning podcast Ditch Diggers, and the long-running I Should Be Writing. She is the recipient of the John Campbell Award for best new writer, the Manly Wade Wellman Award, the Best Fancast Hugo Award, and joined the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015, its inaugural year.

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	Six Wakes 3.83 avg rating — 19,796 ratings — published 2017 — 21 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
	Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 7,389 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 4,386 ratings — published 2013 — 13 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
	Solo: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars Novelizations, #3.1) 3.89 avg rating — 2,789 ratings — published 2018 — 34 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
	Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 2,279 ratings — published 2023 — 5 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
	Playing for Keeps 3.87 avg rating — 2,272 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	The Ghost Train to New Orleans (The Shambling Guides, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 1,909 ratings — published 2014 — 15 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
	Heaven (Afterlife #1) 3.70 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Minecraft: The Lost Journals (Official Minecraft Novels, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 2019 — 28 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
	Hell (Afterlife #2) 3.92 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 2007 — 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

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[ISBW] Conquering Creative Bully #1: BART (a potato)

"The bully loves pantsers because it can insult your outline." -Mur Lafferty

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Afterlife (6 books)
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Quotes by Mur Lafferty (?)

“Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don鈥檛 have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You鈥檙e allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn鈥檛 wait for someone else.”
― Mur Lafferty

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“I should be writing ...”
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“Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions.”
― Mur Lafferty, Six Wakes

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November 2017 Random Sci-Fi

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

49 votes, 36.6%

Faller: A novel by Will McIntosh

25 votes, 18.7%

Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells

22 votes, 16.4%

Cormorant Run by Lilith Saintcrow

19 votes, 14.2%

Bodies of Summer by Mart铆n Felipe Castagnet

19 votes, 14.2%

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“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

tags: barbie, bellwether, fads, humour, independence

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“Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?”
― Connie Willis, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

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