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John Birmingham

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John Birmingham grew up in Ipswich, Queensland and was educated at St Edmunds Christian Brother's College in Ipswich and the University of Queensland in Brisbane. His only stint of full time employment was as a researcher at the Defence Department. After this he returned to Queensland to study law but he did not complete his legal studies, choosing instead to pursue a career as a writer. He currently lives in Brisbane.

While a law student he was one of the last people arrested under the state's Anti Street March legislation. Birmingham was convicted of displaying a sheet of paper with the words 'Free Speech' written on it in very small type. The local newspaper carried a photograph of him being frogmarched off to a waiting police paddy wagon ...more

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	Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 5,487 ratings — published 2004 — 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
	Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 3,674 ratings — published 2005 — 24 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
	Final Impact (Axis of Time, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 3,418 ratings — published 2006 — 26 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
	He Died with a Felafel in His Hand 3.68 avg rating — 3,659 ratings — published 1994 — 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
	Without Warning (The Disappearance, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 3,428 ratings — published 2009 — 36 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 Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 3,130 ratings — published 2019 — 17 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
	Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 2,656 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	After America (The Disappearance, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 2,438 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Emergence (David Hooper, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 1,996 ratings — published 2014 — 17 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
	Fail State (End of Days, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 1,797 ratings — published 2019 — 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

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The Shattered Skies.

I hit send on the manuscript for The Shattered Skies, the second book in the Cruel Stars series last night. That was a relief.

I'd hoped to finish it way back in mid December, before the Christmas/New Year holidays shut everything down.

But hope is what kills us.

It was pretty obvious the whole thing needed restructuring and I wasn't getting away with the 90K word draft I'd planned for.

Instead I wrap Read more of this blog post »

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Series by John Birmingham

Axis of Time (6 books)
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The Disappearance (3 books)
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End of Days (3 books)
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The Cruel Stars (3 books)
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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

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Zone One

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The Force

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“300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.”
― John Birmingham, Angels of Vengeance

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“When a parent dies, for those left behind it can feel as though half the sky has fallen. My father was the sheltering sky, and beneath his mild firmament no storm ever raged, no hard rain fell.”
― John Birmingham, On Father

tags: fatherhood, grief, parenthood, son

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“the rumor you most want to believe is the rumor you should be most skeptical of.”
― John Birmingham, Designated Targets

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Polls

May Sci-Fi Theme -- Alternate History. And the nominees are...

The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick

53 votes, 24.0%

The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson

47 votes, 21.3%

Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest

39 votes, 17.6%

The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon

37 votes, 16.7%

Weapons of Choice, by John Birmingham

14 votes, 6.3%

Ruled Britannia, by Harry Turtledove

12 votes, 5.4%

Bitter Seeds, by Ian Tregillis

11 votes, 5.0%

Into the Storm: Destroyermen, Book I, by Taylor Anderson

8 votes, 3.6%

221 total votes

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