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		<title>&#8220;The Things&#8221; by Peter Watts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see a few ways in here, craft-wise. 1: Misdirection One way swings around that deliberately provocative ending line. We&#8217;re asked to fully reimagine the movie from the perspective of the all-invading alien monster, protean, agressively hegemonzing. A monster for whom the very rape cannot have any meaning. In the comments, Watts says, Yeah, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/08/27/the-things-by-peter-watts/</link>
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		<title>Short Story Club 2010 fiction to-date list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subterrenan Press Magazine The Naturalist by Maureen McHugh Under the Moons of Venus by Damien Broderick Brownian Emotion by Tom Holt Elegy for a Young Elk by Hannu Rajaniemi Return: An Innkeeper&#8217;s World Story by Peter S. Beagle The Bodhisattvas by Gord Sellar What We Take When We Take What We Need by Daryl Gregory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/08/09/ssc-2010-list/</link>
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		<title>A thought on politics as drama.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if it wouldn&#8217;t be better to remove the human element from politics entirely. Imagine this as an alternative to currently operating systems: Every three or four months, people get a notice from the office of party registrations. They can elect to stay with their current party or join a new one at this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/08/06/a-thought-on-politics-as-drama/</link>
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		<title>A letter to DiFi about filibuster reform.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you&#8217;re a Californian and wanted to write her a letter, here&#8217;s the URL: http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe Below the break is the letter I wrote. Feel free to borrow as much as you need: Dear Senator Feinstein, In my morning troll of the news, I was disturbed to notice reporting which said that you had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/07/28/a-letter-to-difi-about-filibuster-reform/</link>
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		<title>A brief diagnosis of the epidemic.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Shadows of the Apt, Book 1 An Empire in Black and Gold (SoA1), on the recommendation of several people. Surprisingly, I found that it was decent, although the prose was nothing special, verging on bad (some of the dialog, like whoa). Still, it was mostly refreshing. There wasn&#8217;t a ton of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/05/13/a-brief-diagnosis-of-the-epidemic/</link>
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		<title>This is Not a Game, by Walter Jon Williams.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked this book. I didn&#8217;t honestly expect to. The last Williams book I read, Implied Spaces, was cleverly conceived and had some interesting moments, but it was implicationally half-baked. We got a bunch of first-order stuff, some smash-bang plotting, and it was great fun, but the second-order stuff was spare to missing. His future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/04/01/this-is-not-a-game-by-walter-jon-williams/</link>
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		<title>Terminal World, by Alastair Reynolds.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler warnings, I guess. Which should likely be the subtitle for this blog. Can&#8217;t really get at issues of construction without revealing anything. At least unless you&#8217;re willing to be coy to the point of affectation, I suppose. I wish that I could say that I unreservedly loved this book. It&#8217;s one of Reynold&#8217;s better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/04/01/terminal-world/</link>
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		<title>The Artless Bones of a Review.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Chill, by Elizabeth Bear I really wanted to like Chill. Honestly I did. I loved Dust, I think, although I&#8217;ll have to check my notes. I for sure love it in my memory. I recognize that it&#8217;s the middle book of a three-book sequence, and that it&#8217;s setting up and leading up. I loved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2010/03/09/the-artless-bones-of-a-review/</link>
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		<title>A note on following the news.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lifetime of a news story (US politics bias): Inception: Coverage here should focus on background, on giving the reader the information that they need to initial position themselves on the issue, and any implications that are clear from the outset. There is room here for several lengthy articles framing the issue from different perspectives, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2009/12/07/a-note-on-following-the-news/</link>
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		<title>A note on terminology.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It strikes me that in my last post, that I was somewhat non-specific in my use of synthesis. It could be that I&#8217;m missing out, with regards to knowledge of the critical literature, so I wanted to define my terms. When I call an author an synthesist, I&#8217;m mostly referring to what I call their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://evanmcc.com/2009/11/06/a-note-on-terminology/</link>
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