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J.R. Kendiro

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Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, David Gemmell, Brandon Sanderson

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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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What Is Biopunk? (And Why You Should Care)

If you've ever wondered what happens when science fiction ditches the chrome and neon for flesh, membrane, and living tissue—welcome to biopunk.


I wrote a deep dive into the genre—where it comes from, what defines it, who's writing it now, and what's still missing. If you're into weird fiction, body horror, dark fantasy, or just want to understand why "biological" and "punk" belong in the same sent Read more of this blog post »
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This book is dense, I wouldn’t know how else to describe it. There’s worldbuilding for an entire saga, and, to my delight, it’s all remarkably coherent. There’s a world, three generations, a mystery, and a molecular-level deconstruction of
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In an alternate universe where erudite people are rich, famous, and ruthless, I think Tyler Kimball would be studied in universities. He made me feel profoundly ignorant (and that's a good
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