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Chris I. Naylor

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Born
in The United Kingdom
Genre
Fantasy, Humor and Comedy

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Member Since
March 2018


I was born in Hertfordshire, did most of my growing up in Sheffield, and went to Oxford University, where I studied the same course under the same tutors at the same college as David Cameron. He went on to become Prime Minister of Great Britain. I didn't.

As a kid I wrote terrible stories in small notebooks purchased from Woolworths. The first halfway decent stories I wrote were pastiches of Lord Dunsany in my early twenties, one of which, to my surprise, was accepted by the small press magazine Fantasy Tales, and subsequently appeared in the DAW Books anthology The Year's Best Fantasy Stories.

In 1974 I sat down one day and typed the sentence 'The dwarf Hergrim stirred and mumbled in his half-sleep'. This early story about Hergrim was comple ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 148 ratings · 33 reviews · 16 distinct works
Wizard's Brew
3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1998 — 20 editions
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Wizards Behaving Badly
3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions
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Fear of Dragons
4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
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Trust Me, I'm a Wizard
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Wizard through the Looking ...
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions
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The Man who Stole the Future
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Camelot Wizards books 1-4
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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Camelot Wizards books 1-3
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6 Fantasy Books
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Chris Naylor and 11 other people liked Bionic Jean's review of Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle:
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers
"This is a beautiful, oversize book. Whether regarded as a paean to Nature, an appeal to future generations or a timely ecological warning and plea for conservation, the message is clear. It is sincere, heartfelt, and well-meaning. And the illustratio" Read more of this review »
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"On 3rd January 1842 Charles Dickens, just a month away from his 30th birthday, started on his tour of America. Accompanied by his wife Catherine, her maid Anne Brown and nearly 80 others, he sailed from Liverpool on the steamship “RMS Britannica�, co" Read more of this review »
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"“A graphic novel?� I enquired as I noticed my little cousin reading a “Bunny v. Monkey� book. But I was promptly corrected by the words “A comic!� I nodded, of course �

“I really like these!� she enthused, so I made a mental note to track down a simil" Read more of this review »
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Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Soul Music (Discworld, #16)
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“Talents are like the fairies. If no-one believes in them, they die.”
― Chris Naylor
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“The grass on the other side of the hill may well be greener, but you should always check that there isn't something with teeth and claws crouching in it.”
― Chris Naylor, Wizard's Brew
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“A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.”
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