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Chris Howard

I'm the author of ROOTLESS (Scholastic), as well as the follow-up THE RIFT, and the final book of this "Mad Max meets Lord of the Rings" tree-logy, THE RECKONING... Also the author of the rad new sci-fi thriller NIGHT SPEED. I live in Denver, but grew up not far from London. I studied natural resources in college, then spent eight years leading wilderness adventure trips for high school students. I like to write more than anything else I've ever done, though reading is right up there, too.

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“Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.”
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“You couldn't make up something that looked so right.”
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“And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.”
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“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”
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“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”
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“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”
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“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”
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