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Austin Aslan

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Tucson, AZ

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Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy

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Austin Aslan's debut novel, The Islands at the End of the World, was named a Best Book of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews. It was ranked by The Guardian as a top-ten climate fiction read, and is listed by BookRiot as a top 100 must-read book in the category of young adult science fiction. His latest novel from HarperCollins, TURBO Racers: Trailblazer, will hit bookstores on January 1, 2019.

Austin earned a master’s degree in tropical conservation biology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. His research on rare Hawaiian plants located on the high slopes of Mauna Loa won him a pair of destroyed hiking boots, a tattered rain jacket, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He has lived in deserts, jungles, and cloud forests. He ...more

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	The Islands at the End of the World (Islands at the End of the World, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 2,377 ratings — published 2014	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 Girl at the Center of the World (Islands at the End of the World, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	TURBO Racers: Trailblazer (TURBO Racers, 1) 4.31 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Endangereds (The Endangereds, #1) by Philippe Cousteau, Austin Aslan (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	TURBO Racers: Escape Velocity 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — 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
	The Endangereds: Melting Point (The Endangereds, #2) by Philippe Cousteau, Austin Aslan (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2021 — 8 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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Review: Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

I just finished Gene Wolfe’s “Book of the New Sun,” a seminal four volume magnum opus in science-fiction’s “Dying Earth” sub-genre, in which we’re flung, headlong, into an inconceivably far-distant future where our sun is a dwindling red presence in the sky and humanity’s last children are bearing witness to the planet’s inevitable natural death.

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DNF. This “novel” is an utter scandal. It’s horrendously written. Reads more like a Mary Pope Osborn book—but that’s extremely unfair to Osborn. I also know the Big Island, having a masters degree in tropical conservation biology from UH Hilo. When I ...more
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“If God won’t play by the rules, then I don’t have to, either.”
― Austin Aslan, The Islands at the End of the World

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“The answer to our future is a return to our past,”
― Austin Aslan, The Islands at the End of the World

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“These islands and their sacred tides call me forth.”
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