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Seth Dickinson

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Since his 2012 debut, Seth's fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Analog, and nearly every other major science fiction and fantasy market.

He's a lapsed student of social neuroscience, where he studied the role of racial bias in police shootings, and the writer of much of the lore and fictional flavor for Bungie Studios' smash hit Destiny. In his spare time he works on the collaborative space opera Blue Planet: War in Heaven.

THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT is his first novel. ...more

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	The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 22,302 ratings — published 2015 — 22 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 Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 6,813 ratings — published 2018 — 10 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
	From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (From a Certain Point of View, #2) by Elizabeth Schaefer (Editor), Mark Oshiro (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rob Hart (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 5,055 ratings — published 2020 — 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 Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3) 4.32 avg rating — 4,005 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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
	Exordia 3.78 avg rating — 1,073 ratings — published 2024 — 6 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 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016 by Karen Joy Fowler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), S.L. Huang (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Please Undo This Hurt 3.55 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2015	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
	Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command 4.10 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013	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
	Three Bodies at Mitanni 4.43 avg rating — 28 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
	Untitled (The Masquerade, #4) 4.42 avg rating — 12 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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Author C.L. Clark is no newcomer to the sci-fi and fantasy scene. Though she just published her first novel, The Unbroken, earlier this year,...

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Seth Dickinson made a comment on .’s review of Untitled (The Masquerade, #4) " Sorry I suck so much :( "
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Seth Dickinson rated a book it was amazing Metal from Heaven by August Clarke	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
I have a lot to say and I don't think I trust anyone else to say it right. Just have to get something down now and edit a better review in later, brain permitting. If I don't get to a longer review by the time the book comes out - please trust the boo ...more
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Seth Dickinson answered A's question: No questions, just love Baru thank you for writing this story?! Thank you for telling me you love it!
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“This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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“Your error is fundamental to the human psyche: you have allowed yourself to believe that others are mechanisms, static and solvable, whereas you are an agent.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (F/F High Fantasy)

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If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (Transgender YA Contemporary)

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Pantomime by Laura Lam (Intersex/Bi YA High Fantasy)

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Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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