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J.R. Kendiro

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https://kendiro.com/

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller

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Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, David Gemmell, Brandon Sanderson

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November 2025

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For ARC Readers: my novella Ravenous Mother - A Healer is available for free right now: here

I've done a lot of things in my life. Some I'm proud of, some I'm not. But they all taught me the same thing: wasting time is a mortal sin.

That’s why I try to write honest, well-crafted books — so I don’t waste my own time writing nonsense, and I don’t waste yours by making you read it.

Ravenous Mother is my first saga. It’s set inside a massive biological organism where humanity survives in a rigid caste system — and reaching forty means you feed the Mother.

It’s about people trapped in impossible systems, without hope, yet who never give up. Exactly like real humanity.

The Mother feeds the readers,

The readers feed the Mother.

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Hurleymania!

Hello, enemies of antibodies!

I think I've got a serious case of Hurleymania.

I've just published three new reviews of Kameron Hurley's work:

God's War

The Stars Are Legion

Elephants and Corpses

I've been reading Hurley partly as a reader and partly as a writer trying to figure out what biopunk actually means when you strip away the aesthetics.

And yes, there are some very obvious reasons why Read more of this blog post »

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