They don't all have to be good

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A publication of my daily writings, mostly fiction, primarily bullshit.

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About Ian Patterson

Award-winning science fiction author, engineer, bike nerd. Check out my novels in the Narrator Cycle, and Fruits of Our Labor, out through Shiraki Press.

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