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Barry Kirwan

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Barry (J F) Kirwan is a split personality. He writes science fiction under the name Barry Kirwan, and thrillers under his pen name J F Kirwan. In his day job, he travels worldwide, working on aviation safety. He lives in Paris, where he first joined a fiction class – and became hooked! This led to an acclaimed four-book series called the Eden Paradox. But when a back injury stopped him scuba diving for two years, he wrote a thriller series about a young Russian woman, Nadia, where a lot of the action occurred in dangerously deep waters. Since then he wrote a serial killer thriller called The Dead Tell Lies, and is writing a new scifi series starting with When the Children Come....

Average rating: 4.2 · 20,026 ratings · 477 reviews · 21 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Eden Paradox (Eden Para...

4.21 avg rating — 16,149 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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Eden's Trial (Eden Paradox,...

4.01 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Eden's Endgame (Eden Parado...

4.14 avg rating — 684 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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When the Children Fight Bac...

4.36 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions
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Eden's Revenge (Eden Parado...

4.01 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions
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When the children return (C...

4.29 avg rating — 458 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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When the children come (Chi...

4.34 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Eden Paradox: the Compl...

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A Guide To Task Analysis

4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions
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The new scifi novel, When the Children Come is finally available for pre-order on Amazon. Release date is 8th January. Here's the blurb:

Nathan, emotionally scarred after three tours in Afghanistan, lives alone in Manhattan until New Year’s Eve, when he meets Lara. The next morning, he notices something strange is going on – a terrified kid is being pursued by his father, and a girl, Sally, ple

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Really enjoyed this epic space opera, good observations on humanity hundreds of years from now, and plenty of aliens and gritty save battles!
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“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Perception s the only reality that matters”
Barry Kirwan, Eden's Endgame

“It has no eyes. Zack, why doesn’t it have any eyes? ”
Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

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“Perception s the only reality that matters”
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