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BBC News - Author Iain Banks has terminal cancer

www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-03T14:35:02.000Z
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This makes me very very sad: "Author Iain Banks has revealed that he has late stage cancer and is unlikely to live for more than a year."

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The Invisibles by Charles de Lint | Fantasy Magazine

www.fantasy-magazine.com
2011-10-27T03:38:44.000Z
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Ayn Rand: The Wired Interview (1998) Boing Boing

www.boingboing.net
2009-12-04T16:57:37.000Z
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"11 years ago I blind-pitched Wired magazine an ill-defined article on Rand. In response, they asked me to write an "interview" with her, where I would come up with all of the questions and then cobble together her answers from things that she had written and said (she died in 1982)."

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Amazon.com: Leslie M. Orchard: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

www.amazon.com
2009-05-29T14:00:04.000Z
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"Leslie Michael Orchard is a hacker, tinkerer, and creative technologist working in the Ann Arbor / Detroit, MI area. He lives with two spotted Ocicats, two dwarf bunnies, and a very patient and understanding wife. On rare occasions when spare time comes in copious amounts, he plays around with odd bits of code and writing, sharing them on his Web site named 0xDECAFBAD (http://decafbad.com/)."

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Autopope! - Uh-oh

autopope.livejournal.com
2009-01-07T00:50:59.000Z
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Titles List (Library of Congress Online Catalog) - Session timeout in 4:36

catalog.loc.gov
2008-12-02T18:51:27.000Z
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Hey, look, I'm in the LIbrary of Congress! "Displaying 1 through 3 of 3."

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Whatever » Reader Request Week 2008 #10: Meeting Authors (and Me)

scalzi.com
2008-04-04T02:14:05.000Z
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"One aspect of fame — even the rather meager portion of it that I and most authors have — is that more people know you than you know, and they have a relationship with you that you don’t have with them."

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'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James

torch.cs.dal.ca
2008-02-28T04:32:04.000Z
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"My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles / In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs."

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Ficlets | Ficlets Blog | Working the LongPen

ficlets.com
2007-06-22T18:17:36.000Z
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"where I was signing and where the books would be signed would be separated by 3,000 miles. This all seemed fairly science fictiony to me, so I said sure, I’d give it a try."

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