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JULY 2007
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### THE WELSH HOLLY DATA ###
RAMSEY CAMPBELL was named by the International Horror Guild as this
years's Living Legend -- the IHG life achievement award.
ELLEN DATLOW's Hugo-winning _Sci Fiction_, which was reduced to a static
archive at Scifi.com in late 2005, vanished altogether on 15 June. Craig
Engler of Scifi.com says that _Sci Fiction_ attracted few visitors and
that keeping track of the rights to its stories was too much trouble.
JONATHAN LETHEM was asked whether he could `take' Martin Amis: `Do I get
to choose weapons? Because we could go at it at snooker, and I would
probably get my ass kicked. But if I got to pick, I would go with
schoolyard basketball, one-on-one, in which case I could kick Martin
Amis's ass up and down the block.' (Nicholas Clee, _Times_, 28 April)
[TW]
ROBERT RANKIN announced his and Rachel's wedding (invitation only) on 28
July in the Brentford area: `The dress code is strictly Victorian, but
this includes Victorian/gothic/fetish/fantasy. And I am assured that
there will be at least one Jack the Ripper and the Elephant Man, so GO
OVER THE TOP. Think about the group photos. Look fabulous!'
J.K. ROWLING mania continues, and has even infected virus writers. The
`Hairy-A' worm spreads via tainted USB memory drives which tempt the
unwary with a file called HarryPotter-TheDeathlyHallows.doc -- a Word
document containing only the phrase `Harry Potter is dead'. [R]
SALMAN RUSHDIE was knighted in the Queen's Birthday honours. Some easily
outraged pundits made noises of outrage: what a surprise.
### CONCOURS ###
5 Jul [] ARTHUR MACHEN: MASTER OF HOLY TERRORS, The Boardroom, University
of Wales, Caerleon, Newport, Gwent. From 6:30pm, with Lionel Fanthorpe
in the chair. Pounds5 inc glass of wine. Linked to unveiling of local
Machen sculpture on the 60th anniversary of his death.
7 Jul [] BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY `Awards Showcase'. Ye Olde Cock Tavern,
22 Fleet St, London, EC4. 6.30pm onwards. All welcome.
19-22 Jul [] SECTUS 2007 (Harry Potter), U of Westminster, Cavendish
Campus, 115 New Cavendish St, London; but Thursday evening at Camden
Centre, Judd St, from 5pm. _Advance booking now closed._ Day: Pounds20
Thur or Fri, Pounds25 Sat (10pm Fri to 5pm Sat), Pounds15 Sun. Contact
251 Reddicap Heath Rd, Sutton Coldfield, W Midlands, B75 7ES. Your
editor's `Hogwarts Proctology Class' is scheduled for 3pm on Friday.
20-22 Jul [] YEAR OF THE TELEDU, Stage Hotel, Leicester. Pounds35 reg.
Contact 14 Endsleigh Gdns, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 2HJ.
25 Jul [] BSFA OPEN MEETING, The Star pub, West Halkin Mews, London, SW1.
6pm on; fans present from 5pm. With Anne Sudworth.
27 Jul [] ROBERT RANKIN exhibition opening and book launch on his
birthday: The Museum, Gunnersbury Park, Popes Lane, Ealing, London W5.
6pm for 7pm, continuing 9pm-midnight at the Princess Royal Pub next to
Brentford Football Ground.
3-5 Aug [] DISCWORLD JAMBOREE, Wincanton, Somerset. GoH Terry Pratchett.
Pounds40 reg; Pounds30 students; under-15s free. Contact 41 High St,
Wincanton, BA9 9JU. 01963 824686; fax 01963 824671.
3-5 Aug [] MECON 10, Queen's Elms Centre, 78 Malone Rd, Belfast. GoH Iain
M. Banks. Pounds18/Euro27 reg; student Pounds14/Euro21. Payments to QUB
SF & Fantasy Society. Contact 115 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 6SP.
10-12 Aug [] RECOMBINATION/HARMUNI III (Unicon 21/RPG/filk), New Hall,
Cambridge. Pounds28 reg; under-18s half price. Contact: 1 Mays Way,
Cambridge, CB4 1UB.
31 Aug - 2 Sep [] WADFEST (Discworld), Trentfield Farm Camp Site
Church Laneham, Retford, Notts, DN22 0NJ. Campers Pounds15 (2 nights),
visitors Pounds5. Online booking only? See www.wadfest.co.uk.
21-23 Sep [] FANTASYCON, Britannia Hotel, Nottingham. _Now Pounds55 reg_;
students and British Fantasy Society members Pounds45; day Pounds25.
Contact 3 Tamworth Close, Lower Earley, Reading, Berks, RG6 4EQ.
23-27 Oct [] _BLACK MARIA_ 'ballet+film+electronic music' by Green Box
Productions at the Lilian-Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells, Islington,
London EC1R. Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, who is `supposed
to be there after the matinee on the 24th to answer questions, argue with
the composer and sign books, and again in the evening. (I think it is all
going swimmingly. That is to say, my agent and the Rod Hall Agency are
currently in acerbic argument with Green Box about rights. Also the
company claim that the book is out of print and HarperCollins say it
isn't. And the choreographer wants me to obtain 20 copies for the cast
whether the book exists or not. As I say, all go).'
19-22 October [] CULT TV 2007, Heythrop Park Hotel, Chipping Norton,
Oxon. Pounds89 reg, Pounds44 child 10-15, under-10s free. Contact PO Box
1701, Wolverhampton, WV4 4WT.
### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###
SQUIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. Margaret Atwood's favourite sf theme returns once
again in _Umbrella Academy_, a comic scripted by rock singer Gerard Way:
`Basically, it starts off with a wrestler. And the wrestler, he knocks
out this space squid. And when he does that -- and it's completely a
matter of coincidence -- extraordinary children are born, on Earth,
instantly.' (_Entertainment Weekly_ interview, 20 June) [TMcD]
AWARD SHORTLISTS. _Mythopoeic_ (fiction only): ADULT Peter S. Beagle,
_The Line Between_; Susanna Clarke, _The Ladies of Grace Adieu_; Keith
Donohue, _The Stolen Child_; Patricia A. McKillip, _Solstice Wood_; Susan
Palwick, _The Necessary Beggar_; Tim Powers, _Three Days to Never_.
CHILDREN Catherine Fisher, _Corbenic_; Nina Kiriki Hoffman, _Spirits That
Walk in Shadow_; Diana Wynne Jones, _The Pinhoe Egg_; Martine Leavitt,
_Keturah and Lord Death_; Terry Pratchett, _Wintersmith_.
_International Horror Guild_ (novel only): Keith Donohue, _The
Stolen Child_; Will Elliott. _The Pilo Family Circus_; Brian Evenson,
_The Open Curtain_; Stephen King, _Lisey's Story_; Conrad Williams, _The
Unblemished_.
SKIFFY SCIENCE MASTERCLASS. `As Breeders Test DNA, Dogs Become Guinea
Pigs.' (_New York Times_ headline, 12 June) [ML]
R.I.P. _Walter J. Daugherty_ (1916-2007), US member of First Fandom who
chaired the 1946 Worldcon and was Fan GoH at the 1968 one, died on 14
June; he was 90. [AIP] His phonograph recording of Denvention (Worldcon
1941) was a fannish first.
_Roger P. Elwood_ (1943-2007), editor or co-editor of nearly 70 sf
anthologies from 1964 to 1968, died on 2 February; he was 64. He was sf
editor for Laser Books and other publishers, and wrote several religious
fantasy novels 1988-1994. [RS]
_Reginald Hugh Hickling_ (1920-2007), lawyer and academic who wrote
the future dystopia _The Furious Evangelist_ (1950), died on 11 February
aged 86. [JE]
_Douglas Hill_ (1935-2007), Canadian-born sf author, reviewer and
editor long resident in the UK, died on 21 June after being run over by
a bus in Palmers Green, London; he was 72. [MJE] Most of his sf novels
were for children (he had just completed a new trilogy); anthologies
included _Window on the Future_ (1966), _The Devil His Due_ (1967), and
_The Shape of Sex to Come_ (1978). Chris Priest writes: `One of the few
people of whom you could say, unequivocally, he was a nice man.'
_Sterling E. Lanier_ (1928-2007), US author best known for _Hiero's
Journey_ (1974) and the stories collected in _The Peculiar Exploits of
Brigadier Ffellowes_ (1972) and its sequel, died on 28 June; he was 79.
While editor at Chilton Books in the 1960s, Lanier succesfully urged the
publication of Frank Herbert's _Dune_. [SFWA]
_Pat O'Shea_ (1931-2007, born Pat Shiels), author of _The Hounds of
the Morrigan_ (1985) -- a fine, funny children's fantasy saturated with
Irish myth -- and a few lesser works, died on 3 May. She was 76.
_Fred Saberhagen_ (1930-2007), US author and editor famed for his
`Berserker' killer-machine sequence, died on 29 June aged 77. His first
story appeared in _Galaxy_ in 1961; also of note are his `Empire of the
East' (science fantasy) and `Swords' (fantasy) series. As an
_Encyclopedia Britannia_ editor (1967-73), he wrote the original _EB_ sf
entry. [JS]
_Steve Swires_ (1951/2-2006), US media journalist specializing in
sf and fantasy movies, died last October in New York, at age 55. He wrote
for such magazines as _Starlog_ and _Fangoria_; also British
publications. [JB]
_Dave Wood_ (1936-2007), popular UK fan who last issue reported a
doctor's warning that he `wouldn't see Christmas,' died suddenly on 5
June; he was 70. All sympathy to his wife Brenda. He will be much missed.
Dave was an active fan in the 1950s and early 60s, when he co-edited
_Brenschluss_; he returned to fanzines in 1983 with _Xyster_, which won
a 1984 Nova Award and continued into this century.
AS OTHERS SEE US. From another ostensibly droll `Brax's Dictionary'
feature in _The Bookseller_: `Seth (n). The Sith are evil, dark, Jedi
lords intent on overthrowing the democratic order and imposing their
black arts and tyranny onto the galaxy. The Seth, on the other hand, are
an equally unwelcome social sub-group who live solely to read sci-fi
spin-off novelizations. They're more than happy to sit in your shop and
read a book from cover to cover, but curiously less willing to pay for
the books they have rendered unsellable once they've broken the spine and
got finger-grease all over them.' (_The Bookseller_, 18 May) [JC]
OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Gregory Benford_ on James Fleming, as quoted in
_A239_: `_The Wilson Quarterly_ piece was yellow dog journalism at its
finest.' From his letter to _TWQ_: `James Fleming's fantasy about the
NASA workshop we both attended is rife with errors. He also violates his
pledge to not quote participants without their permission. When Fleming
says of me, "He, like his fellow geoengineers, was largely silent on the
possible unintended consequences of his plan." I simply point to the
Workshop Final Report, which documents much thought on just this. [...]
Fleming routinely conflates early rainmaking and meteorology with trying
to offset global warming by reflecting sunlight. His talk at the workshop
similarly erred, and he was much criticized for this. [...] I found
Fleming's irresponsible reporting deplorable.'
_Arthur D. Hlavaty_ knows why Kurt Vonnegut called that nice Mr Geis
a cocksucker (see _A239_): `My memory is less corroded than Dick Geis's.
In 1974, when Philip Jose Farmer's _Venus on the Half-Shell_ was
published, as by "Kilgore Trout," Dick reviewed it on the assumption that
it had been written by Vonnegut as a cruel mockery of sf. Having made
inaccurate assumptions about Dick Geis's sexual habits, Vonnegut went on
to deny Farmer permission to write any more Kilgore Trout books.'
_Sam J. Lundwall_ brags: `Just got your incredible intelligent &
handsome rag, and must immediately and gleefully inform you that if John
W. Campbell got an editorial record with 34 years in the saddle, I have
recently broken it, for I became editor of _Jules Verne-Magasinet_ in
January 1972, and I am still at it. So, there!'
THOG'S HARRY POTTER MASTERCLASS. In the month of _that seventh book_,
Thog respectfully presents the _Dept of Many-Armed Slytherins_: `There
was a commotion outside and several large Slytherins entered, each
gripping Ron, Ginny, Luna and -- to Harry's bewilderment -- Neville ...'
(J.K. Rowling, _Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_, 2003) [GS]
C.O.A. _Chris Nelson_, 63 Ligertwood St, Evatt, ACT 2617, Australia.
_Ulrika O'Brien_, 418 Hazel Ave N, Kent, WA 98030, USA.
_LOCUS_ AWARDS. SF novel: Vernor Vinge, _Rainbows End_. Fantasy: Ellen
Kushner, _The Privilege of the Sword_. First: Naomi Novik, _Temeraire_
trilogy. YA: Terry Pratchett, _Wintersmith_. Novella: Charles Stross,
`Missile Gap' (_One Million A.D._). Novelette: Cory Doctorow, `When
Sysadmins Ruled the Earth' (_Baen's Universe_ 8/06). Short: Neil Gaiman,
`How to Talk to Girls at Parties' (_Fragile Things_). Magazine: _F&SF_.
Publisher: Tor. Anthology: Gardner Dozois, ed, _The Year's Best SF 23_.
Collection: Neil Gaiman, _Fragile Things_. Editor: Ellen Datlow. Artist:
John Picacio. Non-Fiction: Julie Phillips, _James Tiptree, Jr.: The
Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon_. Art book: Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds,
_Spectrum 13._
RANDOM FANDOM. _Jonathan Cowie_ reports: `DreamHost (the US web space
provider) had a security breach of passwords. This resulted in our
www.concatenation.org _Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation_ site being
hacked so that those hitting our main page and its indexes were re-
directed to a Russian site which then attempted to download spy viruses
....' Happily, this was quickly fixed and lost pages were restored within
a few days.
_Richard E. Geis_ writes: `Mobility update: I'm now in a wheelchair
all day when not in bed as my spine continues to crumble. Wheelchair life
is frustrating due to having to depend on others to keep the house clean
and get the mail from the P.O. Box.... More updates will follow as events
deteriorate.'
_Bruce Gillespie_ received the A. Bertram Chandler Award for life
achievement, described by him as `the ultimate honour that can be
received in the Australian science fiction community. [...] It's been a
long journey, originally inspired by four great Chandler Award winners
-- John Bangsund, John Foyster, Lee Harding and George Turner --
constantly threatened by rising postal charges and periods of
unemployment, but constantly inspired by well wishers and contributors.
Next goal up ahead -- the 40th anniversary issue of _SF Commentary_ in
2009.'
_Brian Stableford_ makes room, makes room: `I'm trying to clear some
space in the garage in order to displace more books from the house. At
the BSFA meeting last night [27 June] I offered 40 years' worth of
randomly-accumulated fanzines free to anyone who cared to collect them,
but there wasn't a flicker of interest. If you know of anyone who might
want to save them from the recycling bin, tell them to get in touch.'
Contact via _Ansible_.
FANFUNDERY. _TAFF reminder:_ nominations for the eastbound race from
North America to Orbital (Eastercon 2008) close on 16 July. See _A238_
for further details. One firm candidate so far: Chris Garcia.
GROUP GROPES._ Beer & Blake's 7:_ 21 July at The Knight's Templar, Unit
1 Temple Sq, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6DG. From 12.30/1pm.
THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _`The Shadow Nose' Dept._ `My father could give me
over to the comparative wholesomeness of American life, leaving himself
free to sit in his darkened bedroom and drink whisky until his long
sensitive nose floated hazily in front of his face ...' (Poppy Z. Brite,
`Calcutta, Lord of Nerves', 1992) [BA]
_Dept of Sentient Cabbage._ `She walked on to the grocery store to
see if there were any vegetables left from the day's farmer's market
thinking furiously.' (Kim Stanley Robinson, _Sixty Days and Counting_,
2007) [BT]
_Freak Accident Dept._ `Ten minutes later he was in a cab heading
through the deserted streets for the Savoy. The cab was driving past
Paddington Station when it hit him.' (Clive Cussler & Craig Dirko,
_Sacred Stone_, 2004) [WS]
### ON SERIOUS LITERATURE ###
_Ursula Le Guin_ sends a cry from the heart: `"Michael Chabon has spent
considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction
out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned
it."' Ruth Franklin (_Slate_, 8 May 2007)
Something woke her in the night. Was it steps she heard, coming up
the stairs -- somebody in wet training shoes, climbing the stairs very
slowly ... but who? And why wet shoes? It hadn't rained. There, again,
the heavy, soggy sound. But it hadn't rained for weeks, it was only
sultry, the air close, with a cloying hint of mildew or rot, sweet rot,
like very old finiocchiona, or perhaps liverwurst gone green. There,
again -- the slow, squelching, sucking steps, and the foul smell was
stronger. Something was climbing her stairs, coming closer to her door.
As she heard the click of heel bones that had broken through rotting
flesh, she knew what it was. But it was dead, dead! God damn that Chabon,
dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had
buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror
of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its
decaying eyes! What did the fool think he was doing? Had he paid no
attention at all to the endless rituals of the serious writers and their
serious critics -- the formal expulsion ceremonies, the repeated
anathemata, the stakes driven over and over through the heart, the
vitriolic sneers, the endless, solemn dances on the grave? Did he not
want to preserve the virginity of Yaddo? Had he not even understand the
importance of the distinction between sci fi and counterfactual fiction?
Could he not see that Cormac McCarthy -- although everything in his book
(except the wonderfully blatant use of an egregiously obscure vocabulary)
was remarkably similar to a great many earlier works of science fiction
about men crossing the country after a holocaust -- could never under any
circumstances be said to be a sci fi writer, because Cormac McCarthy was
a serious writer and so _by definition_ incapable of lowering himself to
commit genre? Could it be that that Chabon, just because some mad fools
gave him a Pulitzer, had forgotten the sacred value of the word
mainstream? No, she would not look at the thing that had squelched its
way into her bedroom and stood over her, reeking of rocket fuel and
kryptonite, creaking like an old mansion on the moors in a wuthering
wind, its brain rotting like a pear from within, dripping little grey
cells through its ears. But its call on her attention was, somehow,
imperative, and as it stretched out its hand to her she saw on one of the
half-putrefied fingers a fiery golden ring. She moaned. How could they
have buried it in such a shallow grave and then just walked away,
abandoning it? "Dig it deeper, dig it deeper!" she had screamed, but they
hadn't listened to her, and now where were they, all the other serious
writers and critics, when she needed them? Where was her copy of
_Ulysses_? All she had on her bedside table was a Philip Roth novel she
had been using to prop up the reading lamp. She pulled the slender volume
free and raised it up between her and the ghastly golem -- but it was not
enough. Not even Roth could save her. The monster laid its squamous hand
on her, and the ring branded her like a burning coal. Genre breathed its
corpse-breath in her face, and she was lost. She was defiled. She might
as well be dead. She would never, ever get invited to write for _Granta_
now.'
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[] 2007
Until 31 Sep 2007, Josh Kirby exhibition, Liverpool
Until 5 Nov 2007, Doctor Who exhibition, Manchester
19-22 Jul 2007, Sectus (Harry Potter), London
20-22 Jul 2007,Year of the Teledu, Leicester
3-5 Aug 2007, Discworld Jamboree, Wincanton
3-5 Aug 2007, Mecon 10, Belfast
10-12 Aug 2007, Recombination/HarmUni III (Unicon/RPG/filk), Cambridge
30 Aug - 3 Sep 2007, Nippon 2007 (Worldcon), Yokohama, Japan
31 Aug - 2 Sep 2007, Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
7-9 Sep 2007, Reunion5 (media), Coventry
15-22 Sep 2007, Milford Writers' Conference, Snowdonia
14-16 Sep 2006, Oxonmoot (Tolkien Society), Oxford
21-23 Sep 2007, Eurocon 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark
21-23 Sep 2007, Fantasycon 2007, Nottingham
6 Oct 2007, Satellite 1, Glasgow
13-14 Oct 2007, Birmingham International Comics Show, Birmingham
13-14 Oct 2007, Octocon (Irish national con), Maynooth, Ireland
19-22 Oct 2007, Cult TV 2007, Chipping Norton
2-4 Nov 2007, Novacon 37, Walsall
9-11 Nov 2007, Armadacon, Plymouth
[] 2008
8-10 Feb 2008, SF Ball (media), Bournemouth
21-24 Mar 2008, Orbital (Eastercon), Heathrow
Spring 2008, Distraction, Newbury
3-7 May 2008, Roscon or Euroscon (Eurocon), Moscow
26-29 Jun 2008, ConRunner 2008 (conrunning), Wolverhampton
6-10 Aug 2008, Denvention 3 (Worldcon), Denver, USA
22-25 Aug 2008, Discworld Convention 2008, Birmingham
### ENDNOTES ###
APPARITIONS.
[] 11 July: Simon Morden book launch, Waterstones (Emerson Chambers
branch), Newcastle upon Tyne. Wine etc. 6.30pm.
[] 13 July: Brum Group, Britannia Hotel, New St, Birmingham.
Speaker/event still "to be announced" as this issue goes to press.
7.45pm. Pounds3 members, Pounds4 non-members. Contact 07845 897760 or
bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk.
[] 9 July: Jasper Fforde signing, Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury
Ave, London, WC2H 8JR. 1-2pm.
[] 2 August: Peter F. Hamilton signing, Forbidden Planet, 179
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR. 6-7pm.
RANDOM LINKS. Rather than save them up for _Ansible_ each month, I now
add topical links to a sidebar column on the links page. Note the new
(2007) shorter URL:
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MAIL EXTRA. _Jonathan Cowie_ adds reassurance about the hacking of
www.concatenation.org: `Importantly, can we assure all who use, or are
thinking or using, our site update e-mail alert service that our IT
guy (Dan Heidel) uses a different system and maintains records with a
good level of security ... Consequently at no time was our database of
e-mail addresses of those using our alert service exposed to the
hackers. The hackers themselves are known to run a fake Russian
marriage service and also use pornography to lure their prey.
Conversely the fantasy _Concatenation_ covers is of a different kind.'
[] _Bryan Talbot_ has another gloat: `_Alice in Sunderland_ has been
nominated for a Quill award in the States. Never heard of them before
but apparently they're quite prestigious literary jobs and are even
televised!' [] _Taral Wayne_ asks that non-North Americans buying the
Mike Glicksohn fanzine CD-ROM (details as in _A237_) add $2 shipping
to the $15 cost. [] _Dave Wood_'s funeral was on 18 June, with fandom
represented by Catherine & Greg Pickersgill, Rog Peyton and Peter
Weston. Brenda Wood will pass on donations in his memory, made payable
to one of the animal charities PDSA or Blue Cross: 1 Friary Close,
Marine Hill, Clevedon, Avon, BS21 7QA.
EGOBOO. I liked this review by kindly Guy Kewney:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/guy_2106_harry_spoiler/
THAT BENFORD LETTER. The cited Workshop Final report is here.
http://amesevents.arc.nasa.gov/main/index.php?fuseaction=home.reports
Ansible 240 Copyright (c) Dave Langford, 2007. Thanks to Brian
Ameringen, Jim H Burns, Jonathan Cowie, John Eggeling, Making Light,
Andrew I. Porter, The Register, Joyce Scrivner, Will Shaw, Robert
Silverberg, Gordon Smith, Bruce Townley, Tanaqui Weaver, and our Hero
Distributors: Rog Peyton (Brum), Janice Murray (NA), SCIS, and Alan
Stewart (Oz).
3 Jul 07
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nonfiction: =The End of Harry Potter?= (tpb Tor & Gollancz, 2007)
fiction: =Different Kinds of Darkness= (hb/tpb Cosmos, 2004)
date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:05:00 +0100
author: David Langford
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