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"Chris Kluwe grew up in Southern California among a colony of wild chinchillas and didn't learn how to communicate outside of barking and howling until he was 14 years old. He has played football in the NFL, once wrestled a bear for a pot of gold and lies occasionally. He is also the eternal disappointment of his mother, who just can't understand why he hasn't cured cancer yet. Do you know why these bio things are in third person? I have no idea. Please tell me if you figure it out."
Kluwe's first book, the essay collection Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities, will be published by Little, Brown on June 25, 2013.
On your nightstand now:
A lamp.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Anything by David Eddings.
Your top five authors:
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Iain Banks, Brandon Sanderson, L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Book you've faked reading:
None. I wish I faked reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Book you're an evangelist for:
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Book you've bought for the cover:
All of them. The pages get very damaged if the book lacks a cover. Plus, if you swat a fly, you're going to want to protect the words from fly juices.
Book that changed your life:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Favorite line from a book:
"Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!" --"The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft.
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Use of Weapons by Iain Banks.
Why do you like sci-fi/fantasy so much?
Because sci-fi/fantasy allows us to take scenarios from what was/is, and imagine what could be. Without that imagination, the sun is just a flaming ball of gas around which boring chunks of rock orbit on a regular basis, and death comes far too quickly.