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Birthdate: 20th Century
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Education: Calvin College (Philosophy)
Occupations: software developer
Short biography: Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan - home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply. In second grade, he wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write his first novel, Mercury Falls. Since then, he has written two sequels, Mercury Rises (2011) and Mercury Rests(2012), and a humorous epic fantasy, Disenchanted. [from Amazon.com, 6/26/2013]

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Schrodinger's Gat by Robert Kroese

~3.5 stars

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m.j.g. | 1 other review | Sep 2, 2024 |

Starship Grifters (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) by Robert Kroese

Listened to the audiobook that came with the Kindle Unlimited copy. The performance was fun and kept interesting by the different voices for each character (impressive considering how many there were).

The book was a very fun book with a pretty in-depth roundabout story. Just when you have it all figured out or assume it's almost over, some wrench gets thrown in for Rex and Sasha to overcome. It's funny, campy, and cheesy ... just how I like them. So glad to see this is a series so I can get into more of them!… (more)

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teejayhanton | 14 other reviews | Mar 22, 2024 |

Starship Grifters (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) by Robert Kroese

Wonderfully, whacky-lly plotted. Filled with lots of wink-wink, nudge-nudge allusions to other stories and movies in the grand SF tradition. I loved this and seriously hope there will be other novel-length Rex Nihilo adventures in the future.

[AUDIOBOOK NOTE: I very much liked the reader, Kate Rudd. She brought the perfect level of dryness to the narrator character, Sasha, the robot.]

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Treebeard_404 | 14 other reviews | Jan 23, 2024 |

Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese

II really wanted to like this book. I gave it way past my 100 page rule. It had some genuine funny moments but ultimately it just kept dragging on without feeling like it was getting anywhere. I picked it up and put it down a bunch of times before about 60% of the way through the book I just didn't care anymore. I am quite sure others will like this but it was time for me to move on.

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