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Every book is three books, after all the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

John M. Ford

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John M. Ford
Age: 49 †
Born: 1957
Born: April 10
Died: 2006
Died: September 25
Board Game Designer
Fictioneer
Novelist
Poet
Role-Playing Game Designer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
East Chicago
Indiana
Michael J. Dodge
John Milo Mike Ford
John Milo Ford
Mike Ford
Books
Moonlight
Three
Intended
Two
Casts
Firsts
Expected
Book
Shadow
First
Meet
Every
Reader
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