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Sep 28, 1932 — Nov 4, 2005· 73 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · SCIENCE FICTION · FICTION

Michael G. Coney

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Michael Greatrex Coney was born in Birmingham, England. After school, he began training as an accountant, then joined the Royal Air Force. In the 1960s, he became a father and returned briefly to accounting, but he disliked the work and decided to move his family to Antigua in the West Indies, where he managed a hotel and found writing was much easier. In 1969, his first story was published. In 1972 he and his family moved to British Columbia. The same year, he published his first novel, Mirror Image. He worked for the Forest Service while writing, although his fiction was not as successful after his move to Canada. He did write some nonfiction books about Vancouver and about boats that were successful. He retired from the Forest Service in the late 1980's, and died at the age 73 of pleural mesothelioma.

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The San Francisco fog, furious clouds of it that blotted out the sky, the hills, and even the tops of the buildings across the street, had rolled in thick and fast that afternoon.

— from Mirror Image

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Mirror Image

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"In an auction house in London, there is a mirror no one will buy. Standing seven feet tall and reaching four feet across, its size makes it unusual. Its horrific powers make it extraordinary. For centuries, the mirror has fed off of the lives of humans, giving them agonizing deaths and sucking their souls into its hellish world. When Jonathan Frazer, the wealthy owner of a furniture and antiques shop in Los Angeles, buys the mirror at an auction, he believes he is getting the bargain of a lifetime. With its age and size, it is easily worth eight times what he paid for it. At this point, the mirror has sat dormant for years. But within days of Jonathan's purchase, the deaths begin again. One employee is crushed when the mirror falls on top of him. A few days later, the corpse of another is found in front of the mirror, brutally stabbed. A third is burned beyond all recognition. All the while, an enormous man with a scarred face is following Jonathan, demanding that he give him the mirror and killing any police officer that gets in his way. The police are becoming desperate. As the death toll rises, Jonathan himself becomes a suspect. He knows there is something wrong with the mirror. He knows it's dangerous. But he cannot bring himself to get rid of it. Everyday he becomes more captivated by the mirror. For the mirror is awakening, and its powers are resurfacing."--provided by publisher.

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Monitor found in orbit

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Hello Summer, Goodbye

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