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Barry Kirwan

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Born

The United Kingdom

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https://www.barrykirwan.com

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@Eden_Paradox

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Science Fiction, Thriller, Crime

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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....

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Average rating: 4.23 · 19,443 ratings · 424 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 16,007 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden's Trial (Eden Paradox, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 716 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Children Fight Back: The AI war (Children of the Eye Book 3) 4.36 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden's Endgame (Eden Paradox, #4) 4.19 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eden's Revenge (Eden Paradox, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the children return (Children of the Eye, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the children come (Children of the Eye, #1) 4.37 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eden Paradox: the Complete Series 4.42 avg rating — 99 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Guide To Task Analysis: The Task Analysis Working Group 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Guide To Practical Human Reliability Assessment it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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Barry Kirwan rated a book it was amazing Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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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Barry Kirwan and 1 other person liked Lenor's review of The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1): "The Eden Paradox y a SCI-FI thriller developed in a new galaxy. A dystopian world, where everything is collapsing, and humans need a new home. The third journey to a new planet that promises to be the next home for humans, but as so many factors are " Read more of this review »
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Barry Kirwan and 1 other person liked Todd Gutschow's review of The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1): "Well Written & Well Thought Out Story This is a pretty straightforward invasion story. However, the author’s skilled writing style provides the vehicle for imagining this dystopian universe in which humanity is in deadly danger. I liked the way the st" Read more of this review »
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Barry Kirwan made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please add book cover topic " So, I am not sure what to do, as I can only have one Goodreads account apparently, which is for my science fiction books. When I search for The Dead T ...more "
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