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		<title>An end and beginning &#8211; William Gibson&#8217;s Zero History</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/09/05/an-end-and-beginning-william-gibsons-zero-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zero history. An end point and a beginning. William Gibson brings us to an end and in a way back to the beginning in his latest novel, Zero History. Hollis Henry has been hired by Hubertus Bigend from Blue Ant &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/09/05/an-end-and-beginning-william-gibsons-zero-history/">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>Catching up &#8211; Guy Gavriel Kay and Terry Pratchett</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/08/29/catching-up-guy-gavriel-kay-and-terry-pratchett/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/08/29/catching-up-guy-gavriel-kay-and-terry-pratchett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a bit of a catch up. I&#8217;ve been reading Guy Gavriel Kay&#8216;s Ysabel which I&#8217;ve had on my shelf since publication. I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve waited so long as I&#8217;ve pretty much gulped down previous novels. It is &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/08/29/catching-up-guy-gavriel-kay-and-terry-pratchett/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Writing in the Margins &#8211; Ian McDonald&#8217;s Dervish House</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/08/22/writing-in-the-margins-ian-mcdonalds-dervish-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/08/22/writing-in-the-margins-ian-mcdonalds-dervish-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished the Dervish House by Ian McDonald which is set in Istanbul and brings the current series to an end. After a bomb goes off in Istanbul, near to a house which belonged to a dervish, various lives &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/08/22/writing-in-the-margins-ian-mcdonalds-dervish-house/">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>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/11/a-reader-responds-to-bath-and-mayne/#comments</comments>
		<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>The neverending death of fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/04/the-neverending-death-of-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/04/the-neverending-death-of-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Siegel has been stirring the minor storm in a tea cup which raised its head above the parapet again in genre recently: is fiction dead?   (It was enough for the Observer to get excited about.) In an article entitled &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/04/the-neverending-death-of-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going through the wash &#8211; Charles Stross&#8217;s Fuller Memorandum</title>
		<link>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/04/going-through-the-wash-charles-strosss-fuller-memorandum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/04/going-through-the-wash-charles-strosss-fuller-memorandum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I followed Charles Stross&#8216;s Laundry Novels but I recently read The Fuller Memorandum which has made me want to re-read the Jennifer Morgue and Atrocity Archives. It is a slightly less madcap romp through &#8230; <a href="http://www.yatterings.com/2010/07/04/going-through-the-wash-charles-strosss-fuller-memorandum/">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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