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Miranda Nading is a southern Nevada transplant from Wyoming. She lives and works in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area with her husband, Lance, and her Pomchi’s Boomer and Missy. When not writing, working, or spending time with her family, she can be found reading, scuba diving, exploring, or getting up to mischief.
Though she started writing short stories in the third grade, she tackled her first novel-length manuscript, Witch Hunt in 1992. As a single mother, time was a precious commodity and though she had little to spare, she continued writing and completed her second manuscript, Exodus, in 1994. Echoes of Harmony followed in 1996 and would become her breakout novel in 2014.
Her other works include Caliban and Canyon Echoes, also published in 2014. Published in 2015 were the first two books of the Extinction Series: Genesis and Flash Point. The next two books: Judas and Asylum are slated for release in 2016. As she continues working on Extinction, Miranda also has planned a short story that will be released in December of 2016 in an anthology whose proceeds will go to charity. It will later end up in a short story collection which will include her favorites. Also planned is Eldorado: A Cottonwood Cove Adventure.
The genres Miranda prefers to write are also among her favorite reads: Thrillers, Science Fiction, and Horror, all with a suspenseful edge that leaves the reader riding the edge of their seat and turning the pages. The Extinction Series is her first exploration into Post-Apocalyptic suspense with a hard dystopian edge and more than a little science fiction. Though she has read some historical romance, she prefers romance to be the seasoning in the dish, not the main course.
Her favorite writers include, but are in no way limited to: Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Author Conan Doyle, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Robert Browning, Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, and Stephen King. These are authors whose work she rereads once every year or two as, she says, it is like visiting an old friend.
Reviewed by Chris Fischer for Readers' Favorite
Wow! What a read. I just finished the new book by author Miranda Nading. Caliban is a story that will grab readers by the throat from the very start and will keep them obsessively turning the pages all the way through until the very end! Follow the story of Dr. Bobby Reed, a geneticist who has given up his career in order to settle down and raise his family. He believes that he has gotten rid of all traces of his former research, but when he is contacted by a former rival in work, he realizes that he might not have done as good a job as he thought. He needs to work feverishly to try to stop the threat of a virus that only he might prevent. And when an entire town is put under a quarantine, and their sheriff, Mark BaldEagle, starts to uncover the truth of the "flu" that they are encountering, it seems very possible that none of their lives will ever be the same.
I so enjoyed Caliban. Author Miranda Nading has done a fantastic job in creating a gripping story line with characters that readers will connect with, relate to and truly come to care about, thinking of them long after the last pages are read. If that isn't a hallmark of a great author, I'm not sure what is. Any reader who enjoys science fiction, or who is looking for a great work of fiction in general, should absolutely read this book. I highly recommend Caliban and I look forward to reading more from the very promising author, Miranda Nading, as soon as I can!
