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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Life: Female Roles in Science Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Scalzi&#8217;s got an interesting article up on filmcritic.com about Sci-fi movies passing the The Bechdel Test. It&#8217;s a simple test which names the following three criteria: (1) it has to have  at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3)  something besides a man.
This has got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #24: Red Letter Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2010
Photo by Sarah G. Creative Commons

The Story:
A high school counselor and sometimes basketball coach is tasked each year with consoling the students who don&#8217;t receive letters from their future selves on Red Letter Day. She knows first hand the devastating effect of not getting a peek into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Life: Know What You Write (or Know How to Fake It)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Steve Weaver Creative Commons
I absolutely hate the advice &#8220;write what you know.&#8221; Hate. Hate. HATE. It might make some kind of sense for first time novelists who&#8217;d rather not get bogged down in the tedium of researching on top of the monumental task of completing a large written work, but after that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Life: Who&#8217;s in Control of This Relationship?</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=688</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Control image by Basheertome Creative Commons
My muse is out of control. Seriously. My glorious plans of writing 100,000 words worth of short stories this year is seeming more and more like a pipe dream. My muse would rather sink her pointy teeth into novels, and apparently finishing one this year is not enough for her. The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #23: The Android Who Became a Human Who Became an Android by Scott William Carter</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=663</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author website: http://scottwilliamcarter.com/
Published by: Analog Magazine, July/August 2010
Photo by JasonR611 Creative Commons
The Story:
Dexter Duff is a private investigator whose already hazardous lifestyle gets a little more dangerous when his three-breasted ex-girlfriend walks back into his life. She&#8217;d burned him bad the first time around, cleaning out his bank accounts and taking off with his ship. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #22: The Long Way Around by Carl Frederick</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=631</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by: Analog Magazine, July/August 2010
Metal Roo Image by Richard.Fisher Creative Commons
The Story:
Blame it on politics for the inhabitants of First Lunar Outpost being the recipients of a brand new Lunaroo, Australia&#8217;s  contribution to the space program. It&#8217;s a robot kangaroo with a cockpit designed to hop its passengers around the lunar surface. Aussie engineer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June Craft Focus: Analog Magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=629</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just cracked open the July/August issue of Analog, and since it&#8217;s barely June, I&#8217;m already feeling transported into the future! This will be my first time reading this magazine (I got the subscription as a gift!), so I thought I&#8217;d review short stories and novellets from this issue to see I can narrow in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Life: The Ups and Downs of May</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=625</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 04:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m behind on my reviews this month, and yes, I have the appropriate amount of writer&#8217;s guilt to go with it. I just got back from a fabulous week-long road trip visiting family, during which I also slogged around the printed manuscript of my current novel, which I edited during long stretches of road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #21: A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=587</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: tobiasbuckell.com
Published by: Clarkesworld Magazine
Photo by MGShelton Creative Commons
The Story:
Stuck in perpetual air-debt on a space orbital, professional Friend Alex Mosette is out of options. Well, not completely out of options. There&#8217;s always the old fallback of going into hibernation in between jobs to minimize air consumption, but there&#8217;s also a new opportunity on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Story a Day in May</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=582</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 20:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So maybe you&#8217;ve noticed, but I&#8217;m way behind on my short story wordage for the year. I&#8217;ve got six stories written, plus two that are in need of finishing. But there&#8217;s a NaNoWriMo-style challenge this month at http://storyaday.org/ that I&#8217;m hoping will get me going. At the least, I&#8217;ll churn up some good story ideas [...]]]></description>
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