John Bierce

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Fantasy novelist, author of Mage Errant, The Wrack, and More Gods Than Stars. Science and history nerd, some flavor or other of leftist/Marxist/anarchist, can burp the alphabet. johnbierce.com

Portuguese paperbacks of Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed (Os Despojados) and Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Krull.
The cover art to The City That Would Eat the World, book one of More Gods Than Stars. Two lady adventurers stand atop a colossal wall, with an entire city made of crisscrossing walls stretching behind them to the horizon. Mimics are hidden all throughout the image, disguised as benches, lampposts, and wall-stones, among other things.
Two small shelves of books, mostly comics
Akira art book
Akira 35th anniversary box set- closed
Three enamel pins showing characters from Mage Errant, as well as a foil bookmark showing the main characters from the series.
Same lake/city view as the last photo, but at night, and a bit foggy.
A rooftop view of Hanoi's West Lake on a cloudy evening, with glowing skyscrapers on the other side reflected in the water.
A rooftop view of a small lake in the city, half of which is covered with a morning glory farm, with tall, thin Vietnamese apartment buildings with traditional terra cotta roofs behind it.
Three cats on a cat tree chattering at an off-screen bird. There are traditional Vietnamese roofs visible out the window behind the cat tree.
The cover of John Bierce's The City That Would Eat The World, Book One of More Gods Than Stars. Depicts two fantasy adventurers standing atop a giant magical city of interconnecting walls that stretches to the horizon, where a reddish gas giant looms over everything. There are mimics all over the cover, poking their eyes out from street benches, lamp-posts, and masonry blocks.
The cover of John Bierce's novel The City That Would Eat the World, book 1 of More Gods Than Stars.