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    <title>Doctor Who Summer</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.62</id>

    <published>2010-07-14T09:44:42Z</published>

    <summary>I have two Doctor Who books out this summer, one fiction, one non-fiction....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Una McCormack</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[I have two <i>Doctor Who </i>books out this summer, one fiction, one non-fiction.]]>
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<entry>
    <title>I have been incredibly remiss...</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.61</id>

    <published>2010-04-12T08:50:37Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[SILVER KISS has been out for over a month and I haven't said anything about it here! So here's all the information on the book (and some amazing reviews) and here's&nbsp;the gorgeous cover:...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Naomi Clark</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>SILVER KISS has been out for over a month and I haven't said anything about it here! So <a href="http://www.naomiclark.net/wolf-city/">here's all the information on the book </a>(and some amazing reviews) and here's&nbsp;the gorgeous cover:</p>
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<entry>
    <title>Coming Soon: Requiems for the Departed</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.60</id>

    <published>2010-03-24T09:50:14Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[Press release from Morrigan Books about their forthcoming anthology Requiems for the Departed, edited by Gerard Brennan &amp; Mike Stone, in which I have a story....]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Una McCormack</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<div>Press release from <a href="http://www.morriganbooks.com">Morrigan Books</a> about their forthcoming anthology <i>Requiems for the Departed</i>, edited by Gerard Brennan &amp; Mike Stone, in which I have a story.</div> ]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.58</id>

    <published>2010-03-19T14:35:16Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[I'm delighted to say that The Never-Ending Sacrifice&nbsp;won&nbsp;the Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year Poll!...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Una McCormack</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; height: 90%; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; height: 32px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; ">I'm delighted to say that <i>The Never-Ending Sacrifice</i>&nbsp;won&nbsp;<a href="http://unreality-sf.net/vote/0910/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">the Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year Poll</a>!</div></span></div></span>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Ethereal Tales out now</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.57</id>

    <published>2010-03-11T13:13:55Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[Ethereal Tales issue 6, featuring new short stories by Rebecca J Payne and Naomi Clark, is out now! You can buy the issue direct from Cute N Creey&nbsp;at http://www.etherealtales.co.uk/&nbsp;for only £2.50....]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>R J Payne</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>Ethereal Tales issue 6, featuring new short stories by Rebecca J Payne and Naomi Clark, is out now! You can buy the issue direct from Cute N Creey&nbsp;at <a href="http://www.etherealtales.co.uk/">http://www.etherealtales.co.uk/</a>&nbsp;for only £2.50.</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Unreality-SF.net Book of the Year</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.56</id>

    <published>2010-03-11T09:33:52Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[The shortlist for the Unreality-SF.net TV tie-in book of the year has been posted, and splendidly The Never-Ending Sacrifice has made the list.&nbsp;The full list is:Being Human: The Road&nbsp;by Simon Guerrier (novel)Farscape: D'Argo's Lament&nbsp;by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Neal Edwards...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Una McCormack</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[The shortlist for the <a href="http://unreality-sf.net/">Unreality-SF.net</a> TV tie-in book of the year has been <a href="http://unreality-sf.net/vote/0910/">posted</a>, and splendidly <i>The Never-Ending Sacrifice</i> has made the list.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; height: 90%; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font: normal normal normal 13px/normal arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The full list is:<div><br /></div><div><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 20px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat repeat; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Being Human: The Road</i>&nbsp;by Simon Guerrier (novel)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Farscape: D'Argo's Lament</i>&nbsp;by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Neal Edwards (comic book)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Doctor Who: The Angel of Scutari</i>&nbsp;by Paul Sutton (audio)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Doctor Who: The Final Chapter</i>&nbsp;by Russell T. Davies and Benjamin Cook (nonfiction book)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks</i>&nbsp;by Trevor Baxendale (novel)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice</i>&nbsp;by Una McCormack (novel)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing the Peace</i>&nbsp;by William Leisner (novel)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice</i>&nbsp;by David Mack (novel)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon</i>&nbsp;by Keith R.A. DeCandido (novel)</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><i>Torchwood: In the Shadows</i>&nbsp;by Joseph Lidster (audio)</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Voting open till next Sunday, the 14th. Go and&nbsp;<a href="http://unreality-sf.net/vote/0910/vote.html" style="text-decoration: underline; ">vote</a>!</div></div></span></div>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>The Tangled Bank - now out</title>
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    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.55</id>

    <published>2010-03-07T17:39:09Z</published>

    <summary>The last month has been a little crazy on the day-job front, but I finally got around to posting this, my first sale - a short story in the new anthology &quot;The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder and Evolution&quot;. &quot;Hopeful Monsters:...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Anne Lyle</name>
        <uri>http://www.annelyle.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The last month has been a little crazy on the day-job front, but I finally got around to posting this, my first sale - a short story in the new anthology "The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder and Evolution".</p>

<p><img src="/images/tangled_bank.jpg" alt="cover" /></p>

<p>"Hopeful Monsters: A Darwinian Fairytale" puts a twist on the traditional oral tale, by retelling it from an evolutionary perspective. No Big Bad Wolf here, just natural selection!</p>

<p><strong>Buy the book</strong> <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-tangled-bank-love-wonder-and-evolution/8340048">Lulu.com</a> (ebook) - POD paperback coming soon!</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>I Do Two anthology goes live</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2010/02/i-do-two-anthology-goes-live.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.54</id>

    <published>2010-02-25T12:13:47Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[The I Do Two anthology is now available in pdf&nbsp; here! Other formats are in the pipeline and should be coming along very soon, and it has gone to the printers.&nbsp; So it should be available in print in about...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Alex Beecroft</name>
        <uri>http://alexbeecroft.com/</uri>
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        <![CDATA[The <i>I Do Two</i> anthology is now available in pdf&nbsp; <a href="http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=IDO21002">here!</a><br /><br /><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="IDoTwo350.jpg" src="http://www.differentstar.net/IDoTwo350.jpg" class="mt-image-none" style="" height="350" width="225" /></span><br /><br />
<p>Other formats are in the pipeline and should be coming along very 
soon, and it has gone to the printers.&nbsp; So it should be available in 
print in about a fortnight.</p>

<p>All profits from this anthology will be donated to the Lambda Legal 
Defense to support their fight for marriage equality for all.&nbsp; So if you
 buy this anthology, you won't only get a great read, you'll also be 
doing a good deed <img src="http://alexbeecroft.com/website/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> &nbsp; <br /></p>

<p>It's a good hefty volume.&nbsp; Nearly 100K long, containing 22 stories 
from authors ranging from the well known - like James Buchanan - to 
newly discovered rising stars - like D.C Juris.&nbsp; And as part of the team
 who chose the stories, I can vouch that every single one of them is 
good. </p>

<p>My contribution is called Inner Truth, which is a glimpse at the 
happy ending of John and Alfie from False Colors, but told through the 
eyes of one Joe Malley who has his own problems:</p>
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<entry>
    <title>Breaking Down and Deliver Me sold to Ethereal Tales</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2010/01/breaking-down-and-deliver-me-sold-to-ethereal-tales.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2010://1.53</id>

    <published>2010-01-07T17:40:28Z</published>

    <summary>Naomi Clark and Rebecca J Payne will each have a short story in the upcoming January issue of Ethereal Tales....</summary>
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        <name>R J Payne</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>Naomi Clark and Rebecca J Payne will each have a short story in the upcoming January issue of Ethereal Tales. </p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Everyone&apos;s a Critic</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2009/12/everyones-a-critic.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2009://1.52</id>

    <published>2009-12-18T18:08:47Z</published>

    <summary><![CDATA[Woe! Woe is me!&nbsp;For the first time in my life my precious, heartfelt words are out there in the big bad wide world and - ouch! What are you doing, firing such barbed arrows into my heart? Oh you scoundrel,...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>R J Payne</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>Woe! Woe is me!&nbsp;For the first time in my life my precious, heartfelt words are out there in the big bad wide world and - ouch! What are you doing, firing such barbed arrows into my heart? Oh you scoundrel, how can you not like the story I slaved for months over, you must be a heartless beast, or at the very least, an idiot who didn't see the subtext that was staring you in the face...</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>AFTERLIFE cover</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2009/11/afterlife-cover.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2009://1.51</id>

    <published>2009-11-02T14:20:27Z</published>

    <summary> I should have posted this ages ago! But since it&apos;s now less than a month until AFTERLIFE is released, I now have my butt in gear. AFTERLIFE will be available from Damnation Books on 1st December....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Naomi Clark</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>
<p><img style="MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left" class="mt-image-left" alt="afterlife.jpg" src="http://www.differentstar.net/afterlife.jpg" width="320" height="480" />I should have posted this ages ago! But since it's now less than a month until AFTERLIFE is released, I now have my butt in gear.</p>
<p>AFTERLIFE will be available from <a href="http://www.damnationbooks.com">Damnation Books </a>on 1st December.</p></p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>By Starlight in Interzone #225, out 12 November</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2009/10/by-starlight-in-interzone-225-out-12-november.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2009://1.50</id>

    <published>2009-10-26T16:24:32Z</published>

    <summary>Interzone #225 has gone to print featuring my short story &quot;By Starlight&quot;. The issue will hit bookshop shelves and subscribers&apos; doorsteps on 12 November....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>R J Payne</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>Interzone #225 has gone to print featuring my short story "By Starlight". The issue will hit bookshop shelves and subscribers' doorsteps on 12 November.</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>FantasyCon 2009</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2009/09/fantasycon-2009.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2009://1.49</id>

    <published>2009-09-23T05:56:36Z</published>

    <summary>FantasyCon was held at the Britannia Hotel in Nottingham again this year, from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th September. There were about 270 attendees, plus special guests - a good size for someone like myself who is just dipping a...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Anne Lyle</name>
        <uri>http://www.annelyle.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>FantasyCon was held at the Britannia Hotel in Nottingham again this year, from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th September. There were about 270 attendees, plus special guests - a good size for someone like myself who is just dipping a toe in the convention water (it was only my second "real" SF&amp;F con, not counting RPG cons that I used to go back in the day). </p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Disco Inferno! The perils of dancing to a classical tune</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2009/09/disco-inferno-the-perils-of-dancing-to-a-classical-tune.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2009://1.48</id>

    <published>2009-09-20T12:15:30Z</published>

    <summary>A few months ago I had the pleasure of visiting Amsterdam for a weekend, primarily to see an old friend and also to look around the Colours of Night exhibition in the Van Gough museum. Unafraid as I was of...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>R J Payne</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p dir="ltr"><font style="font-size: 1em;"><span lang="en-gb">A few months a</span><span lang="en-gb">go</span><span lang="en-gb"> I had the pleasure of visiting Amsterdam for a</span><span lang="en-gb"> weekend</span><span lang="en-gb">, primarily to see an old friend and also</span><span lang="en-gb"> to</span><span lang="en-gb"> look around the Colours of Night exhibition in the Van Gough museum.</span><span lang="en-gb"> Unafraid as I was of looking quite obviously like a tourist by wandering around the city centre with a large map, I saw a strange cluster of looping streets like concentric horse</span><span lang="en-gb">shoes peeling away from one of the main canals,</span><span lang="en-gb"> a</span><span lang="en-gb"> swirling</span><span lang="en-gb"> fingerprint in the heart of the city.</span><span lang="en-gb"> "</span><span lang="en-gb">That</span><span lang="en-gb">'</span><span lang="en-gb">s the Nine Streets</span><span lang="en-gb"> dist</span><span lang="en-gb">rict</span><span lang="en-gb">,"</span><span lang="en-gb"> my friend informed me,</span><span lang="en-gb"> "</span><span lang="en-gb">where all the</span><span lang="en-gb"> independent</span><span lang="en-gb"> shops and artists are.</span><span lang="en-gb">"</span><span lang="en-gb"> Nine Streets? It all sounded rather...</span><span lang="en-gb"><i> hellish</i></span><span lang="en-gb"> to me, not out of any particular aversion to boutiques selling</span><span lang="en-gb"></span><span lang="en-gb"> overpriced vintage cloth</span><span lang="en-gb">ing</span><span lang="en-gb"> or conceptual artists, but because I</span><span lang="en-gb">'</span><span lang="en-gb">d</span><span lang="en-gb"> recently been</span><span lang="en-gb"> delving into Dante</span><span lang="en-gb">'</span><span lang="en-gb">s</span><span lang="en-gb"><i> Divine Comedy</i></span><span lang="en-gb">.</span></font><span lang="en-gb"> </span></p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Calibri"></font></span> ]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Interview at Unreality-SF.Net</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.differentstar.net/2009/09/interview-at-unreality-sfnet.html" />
    <id>tag:www.differentstar.net,2009://1.47</id>

    <published>2009-09-18T15:04:47Z</published>

    <summary>The good people at Unreality-SF.Net have just posted an interview with me. Interview contains the following three words: Spartacus, handicap, and chunks. Yes it does....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Una McCormack</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[The good people at <a href="http://unreality-sf.net/">Unreality-SF.Net</a> have just posted an <a href="http://unreality-sf.net/interviews/unamc.html">interview with me</a>. Interview contains the following three words: Spartacus, handicap, and chunks. Yes it does.]]>
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