1. Larry Correia is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, known for his Monster Hunter International, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series.
21 Facts About Larry Correia
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Larry Correia has authored or co-authored over 30 novels, has over 50 published short works, two collections of stories, and has co-edited four published anthologies.
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Larry Correia was nominated for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2011, and his works have been nominated for the Audie Award multiple times, winning twice.
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Larry Correia has won the Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Best Fantasy Novel four times.
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In 2014, Correia started the Sad Puppies campaign to nominate works for the Hugo Award, including his own, that he claimed were more popular but often unfairly passed over in favor of more literary works or stories with progressive political themes.
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Larry Correia grew up in El Nido, California working on his Portuguese father's dairy farm until his mid-teens, when his family moved to Utah.
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Larry Correia stayed in California for about a year before joining his family in Utah.
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Larry Correia worked as an accountant for several years before Correia opened a gun store with business partners while continuing to work as an accountant.
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Larry Correia started working as a firearms instructor and a CCW instructor.
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Larry Correia's stories are typically action-oriented with accurate and detailed depictions of firearms usage.
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Larry Correia used to be active on firearms discussion boards, where he would write about his interest in weapons and low-budget monster movies, and get inspiration from various online threads.
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Larry Correia wrote a number of short stories and a novel in 2013 and 2014 for Privateer Press that were set in the Iron Kingdoms role-playing world.
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Monster Hunter Nemesis, the fifth volume in the main Monster Hunter series, was chosen as a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015, but Larry Correia declined the nomination.
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Larry Correia began Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, a new epic fantasy series, with Son of the Black Sword, which won an inaugural Dragon Award in the "Best Fantasy Novel" category in 2016.
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Outside of writing, Larry Correia has been a guest on "Shooting Gallery", Joe Mantegna's Gun Stories, and Huckabee talking about firearms.
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Larry Correia is best known for his Monster Hunter International, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series.
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Larry Correia eventually joins the Grimnoir Society after finding the government is lying to him, working with them to stop the Imperium and the ambitions of Okubo Tokugawa.
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Larry Correia is very good at what he does, until he finds out he isn't who he thinks he is, and that he's been lied to his entire life.
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Larry Correia has to choose whether to hide the lies or to rebel against what he thought was right.
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Larry Correia enjoys writing novels in different genres with other writers.
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Larry Correia's first novel collaboration was a thriller trilogy starting with Dead Six written with Mike Kupari.