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		<title>From the Wasteland looking at the stars  &#8211; Steve Aylett&#8217;s Smithereens</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2011/03/06/from-the-wasteland-looking-at-the-stars-steve-ayletts-smithereens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Aylett is a singular author and Smithereens, his latest (and possibly final short story) collection centres on the idea of originality. Or perhaps that is just my misprision of it. I&#8217;ll come back to this. A word of warning: &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2011/03/06/from-the-wasteland-looking-at-the-stars-steve-ayletts-smithereens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching God  &#8211; Stephen Hunt&#8217;s Secrets of the Fire Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2011/02/12/approaching-god-stephen-hunts-secrets-of-the-fire-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hunt&#8216;s Secrets of the Fire Sea is a mash up of a Dan Brownesque thriller, steampunk and adventure. I don wonder if there is a little Jules Verne in there as well. Hunt continues mashing up genres in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2011/02/12/approaching-god-stephen-hunts-secrets-of-the-fire-sea/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The carnival of realities in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean&#8217;s children&#8217;s books</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/11/17/the-carnival-of-realities-in-neil-gaiman-and-dave-mckeans-childrens-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The carnivalesque, a theory of folk humour developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, is a time of collapse and overturning of conventional boundaries and norms of the world. It is essentially a licensed time of revelry and excitement which the ruling classes &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/11/17/the-carnival-of-realities-in-neil-gaiman-and-dave-mckeans-childrens-books/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pratchett talks about Aching</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/09/01/pratchett-talks-about-aching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short note. Aida Emariam in the Guardian has an interview with Terry Pratchett. He talks about I Shall Wear Midnight and the right to die. In a  way I&#8217;m happy that this is the last in the Aching &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/09/01/pratchett-talks-about-aching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two faces of Artemis Fowl</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/25/two-faces-of-artemis-fowl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/25/two-faces-of-artemis-fowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artemis Fowl is happy. Very happy. Unnervingly so. His latest scheme is to reverse global warming and save the world. He&#8217;s being heroic. Its unnerving. He keeps taking and counting in multiples of five as well. Holly Short notices the &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/25/two-faces-of-artemis-fowl/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jeepers, Blyton&#8217;s jolly japes to be updated</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/24/jeepers-blytons-jolly-japes-to-be-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/24/jeepers-blytons-jolly-japes-to-be-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Flood in the Guardian has a piece on the reworking of the language in the Famous Five books which Hodder, their current publisher, are publishing in August. They will still publish the originals but the contemporary range will modernise &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/24/jeepers-blytons-jolly-japes-to-be-updated/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A reader responds to Bath and Mayne</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/11/a-reader-responds-to-bath-and-mayne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that the children&#8217;s author, KP Bath, had been sentenced for the possession of child pornography has (rightly) sparked a debate on children&#8217;s mailing lists.  It has reminded me of William Mayne whose writing career was ended by his &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/11/a-reader-responds-to-bath-and-mayne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring the World &#8211; Ken Macleod&#8217;s The Restoration Game</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/27/restoring-the-world-ken-macleods-the-restoration-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/27/restoring-the-world-ken-macleods-the-restoration-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished Ken Macleod&#8216;s The Restoration Game (Orbit, £18.99) and I&#8217;m still slightly agog. Lucy Stone is asked by an unknown agency to go back to Krassnia, a small Russian republic in the Caucasus. Her mother, Anna, created the &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/27/restoring-the-world-ken-macleods-the-restoration-game/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Papers on Mervyn Peake</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/20/call-for-papers-on-mervyn-peake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/20/call-for-papers-on-mervyn-peake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy has issued a call for papers for their conference on Mervyn Peake next year. It certianly a conference that I&#8217;ll be trying to attend, even if I don&#8217;t contribute a paper.]]></description>
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		<title>Gaiman&#8217;s checks in Jack Benny</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/20/gaimans-checks-in-jack-benny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/20/gaimans-checks-in-jack-benny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just listening the repeat of John Lloyd&#8217;s Museum of Curiosities with Sarah Millican and Neil Gaiman. Gaiman has just checked in The Jack Benny Show (archives appear to here)  into  the museum as a way of showing the power of &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/06/20/gaimans-checks-in-jack-benny/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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