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		<title>Re: Stable Strategies</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/stable-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eileen Gunn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After seeing Eileen Gunn at Readercon last July, I finally checked out her collection of short fiction, Stable Strategies and Others.  It&#8217;s a slender volume filled out with three encomiums plus an author&#8217;s foreword plus endnotes for each story, all commenting about how slowly she writes. What she does write is good stuff.

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		<title>The Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After putting Graham Joyce on my list of authors I&#8217;d like to read more of, I finally got around to reading another one, The Exchange. And I liked it. This could be a pattern.

It took me a while to warm up to the story. Our heroine, Caz is a little messed up, but she&#8217;s all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=4625&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Years of Rice and Salt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably already know that The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson tells an alternate history where the Black Plague wiped out Christian Europe, which leaves a world dominated by Buddhists and Muslims. This gives you a good excuse to explore parts of world history we don&#8217;t hear so much about.  As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=4097&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lizard Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Pinkwater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I think of Daniel Pinkwater, the first book that comes to mind is always Lizard Music. It&#8217;s funny, intense, goofy, and light, sometimes in turns, sometimes all at once, in a way that leaves you off balance and finding something new every time you read it.

When Victor&#8217;s parents go (extremely reluctantly) on vacation and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=4695&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Brother</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, Marcus Yallow is a smartass who delights in playing Harajuku Fun Madness and in evading the security at his high school. He and his friends are caught in the post-bombing sweep after a terrorist attack on San Francisco. After a harrowing interrogation, Marcus is set loose. Though he knows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=3155&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sailing to Sarantium</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/sailing-to-sarantium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2001 Mythopoeic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sailing to Sarantium, by  Guy Gavriel Kay breaks the pattern of the previous books. It focuses on one character, Crispin, a skilled but flawed mosaic artist. He travels to Byzantium, I mean Sarantium, apparently in the same world as Al-Rassan, but centuries earlier, there&#8217;s no war at the end, and not a word about Fionavar.

I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=33&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pyramids</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/pyramids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reluctant to commit to reading even a sub-series of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld books, Pyramids is a pretty good standalone sampler of his humor.
Teppic, heir to the kingdom of Djelibeybi, is a good-hearted character, even if he is training to be an assassin. The first third of the book is dominated by his training [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=75&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Storm of Swords</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/a-storm-of-swords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George R. R. Martin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I picked a throughly read copy of A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin at the library, the book&#8217;s binding was coming apart. There&#8217;s a reason why this is also known as A Storm of Words. Despite the warning signs of bloat, I had a terrific time reading this book.
Lots of darkness. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=10&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits of Enchantment</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/the-limits-of-enchantment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2006 World Fantasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to admit that there are several books I like that I&#8217;m not going to be able to do justice to, and waiting to post about them won&#8217;t make it any better. For example, The Limits of Enchantment, by Graham Joyce is exactly the sort of book that I never would have bothered with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=53&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anathem</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/anathem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read cosmology books for fun, you&#8217;ll have plenty of fun reading Anathem, by Neil Stephenson. It also helps if you like wordplay, language, and philosophy. I liked this book so much I was actually a bit relieved that I didn&#8217;t fall in love with it, because a 900 page book could mean some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1436&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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