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Ray Nayler

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Called "One of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction" by Locus Online, Ray Nayler's critically acclaimed stories have seen print in Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Nightmare, as well as in many "Best Of" anthologies, including The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.

For nearly half his life, he has lived and worked outside the United States in the Foreign Service and the Peace Corps, including a stint as Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Beginning in September 2022, he will serve as the international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and A
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Average rating: 3.91 · 28,733 ratings · 5,220 reviews · 71 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Mountain in the Sea

3.93 avg rating — 23,470 ratings — published 2022 — 26 editions
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The Tusks of Extinction

3.85 avg rating — 3,573 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions
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The Job at the End of the W...

3.76 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2023
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Sleepwalking: Crime Stories

4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012
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Muallim

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Where the Axe Is Buried

4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — expected publication 2025 — 4 editions
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American Graveyards

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Eyes of the Forest

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"Having read Peter Godfrey Smith's "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness", I was prepped for Ray Nayler's entertaining novel. And now Nayler's writing has added Eduardo Kohn's "How Forests Think", Jesper Hoffmeyer's" Read more of this review »
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
"Well-written, imaginative, and as philosophical as it is scientific, The Mountain sucks you into its vortex. It addresses so many key issues: what does it mean to be human, what is consciousness, how can beings communicate, can we save this planet? T" Read more of this review »
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“The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.”
Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home.”
Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“I think what we fear most about finding a mind equal to our own, but of another species, is that they will truly see us—and find us lacking, and turn away from us in disgust. That contact with another mind will puncture our species’ self-satisfied feeling of worth. We will have to confront, finally, what we truly are, and the damage we have done to our home. But that confrontation, perhaps, is the only thing that will save us. The only thing that will allow us to look our short-sightedness, our brutality, and our stupidity in the face, and change.”
Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

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What book would you like to read for our September 2024 Group Read? The theme is Mountains.

 
  16 votes 19.5%

 
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Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Fantasy
 
  12 votes 14.6%

 
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The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Science Fiction, Thriller
 
  5 votes 6.1%

Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown
Historical Fiction
 
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Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Historical Fiction
 
  3 votes 3.7%

 
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