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		<title>Review: The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not dead you know. Just working minimum wage, full time. I’m one of those now, the 99% (of employed people doing a job they don&#8217;t particularly like) until I find another teaching job. Whilst my energies are drained for little reward I have shied away from putting pen to paper on any more short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=397&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Extinction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to my attention that certain groups in society are intent on preventing any of the worlds fauna or flora from passing into their rightful place in history alongside the dinosaurs and the dodo. They even rush to preserve long exhausted ideas and outmoded building styles. Let us examine this for one moment. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=390&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Heaven&#8217;s Shadow by David S Goyer, Michael Cassutt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so ends my summer of happy reading. What began with a Three for Two offer at a Doncaster Waterstones and took in books like The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman and Glen David Gold&#8217;s debut novel Carter Beats the Devil reaches its conclusion with a book that Guillermo Del [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=387&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s review is the second of three books I purchased on my last trip around the UK for a series of job interviews. At the start of the summer I purchased ‘The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ’ by Philip Pullman, Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold and ‘Heavens Shadow’ by David [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=382&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8216;The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ&#8217; by Philip Pullman</title>
		<link>http://awritingculdesac.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/review-good-man-jesus-and-the-scoundrel-christ-by-philip-pullman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Pullman is as known for his excellent writing as much as for his raging against the Church and other religious organisations. His Dark Materials is essentially a story of a war between free thought and belief and corrupted doctrine. It is a particularly controversial topic for a Young Adult book, but superbly delivered and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=369&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8216;Sin in the Second City&#8217; by Karen Abbott</title>
		<link>http://awritingculdesac.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/review-sin-in-the-second-city-by-karen-abbott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers to the blog will recall that late last year I read a book called The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, a non-fiction, brilliantly vivid account of the Chicago World Fair 1893 and the exploits of a serial killer in the shadows of the festivities. The use of the principle figures own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=362&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lazarus Experiment &#8211; now an Android App!</title>
		<link>http://awritingculdesac.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/the-lazarus-experiment-now-an-android-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very short update today with news on yet another outlet that you can get my short story ebook &#8220;The Lazarus Experiment&#8220;. Last week my publisher Books to Go No announced that you can now ask your local library for an ebook loan of The Lazarus Experiment! So if you can do, please run on down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=351&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now available from a library near you..</title>
		<link>http://awritingculdesac.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/now-available-from-a-library-near-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was looking for publishers to submit The Lazarus Experiment to back in February 2011, one group – my eventual publisher – Books to Go Now, were modestly distributing from their own website and through amazon. Like about a thousand other ultra small indy publishers in the digital space. But the little Seattle company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=344&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Byte Sized Reads to the Next Level</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EZE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ether Books, the crazy 2010 start-up that became the first publisher to release stories by me, are today celebrating the launch of version 1.4 of their fantastic iPhone App. For those who don’t know the Ether Books App, quite surprisingly, offers its users the opportunity to download short reads on the move. So if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=awritingculdesac.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14496387&amp;post=333&amp;subd=awritingculdesac&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Missed Valentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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