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		<title>Review #29: Aphrodisia by Lavie Tidhar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author website: http://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/
Published by: Strange Horizons, August 2010
Photo by Christine Zenino Creative Commons
The Story:
A hub junkie, a hafmek, and a tentacled worm walk into a bar&#8230;
Three nest-brothers from Mars are running away from their pasts, and end up on the gritty, non-protocol streets of Earth. Here, the temperatures aren&#8217;t regulated, and neither are the people. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #27: Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=833</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: http://homepage.mac.com/samcdonald/
Published by: Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2nd, 2010
Photo by Mike Baird Creative Commons
The Story: 
Colonel Frank Merullo of the  United States Air Force is stuck in a Vee-Reel &#8212; a virtual reality movie playing out before his eyes when he&#8217;s supposed to be focused on the crew of his spaceship and getting them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #24: Red Letter Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=698</link>
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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>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>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>Writer&#8217;s Life: How to Explain a Fictional Technology or Superpower</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=567</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So speaking of world building, Basic Instructions has this tidbit of advice about how to explain a fictional technology or superpower.
There&#8217;s definitely a balance to it: too little and you&#8217;ll leave your readers confused or distracted from the story. Too much, and they&#8217;ll be digging through a tech manual for plot and characters. Though I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #19: Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=536</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: www.jlake.com
Published by: Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2010
Photo by Rick Creative Commons
The Story:
Engineering Supervisor Domitian Spanich is always falling for the wrong type of guy &#8212; the young, pretty kind who don&#8217;t stick around once they&#8217;ve spent his pay chitty on fancy drinks. Half the guys torquing vacuum on Estacada Orbital swing his way, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #17: Bridesicle by Will McIntosh</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=436</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by: Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction, 2009
Photo by Kodismom Creative Commons
The Story:
Mira died in a car accident, but that&#8217;s not the worst of her problems. She&#8217;s now a bridesicle &#8212; half icicle, half mail order bride &#8212; waiting for her prince charming to revive her cryogenically frozen body. Only it&#8217;s not exactly the princes that go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #12: The Economy of a Vacuum by Sarah Thomas</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Ctd 2005 Creative Commons
Published by: Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2009
The Story:
Virginia has trained hard to be the moon&#8217;s first long-term resident. She&#8217;s prepared for the vast moments of loneliness punctuated by stardom during her weekly transmissions home to Earth. Not that she&#8217;s ever felt particularly tied to one city over another, but [...]]]></description>
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