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  <title>Why This Is Hell</title>
  <subtitle>Nor Am I Out of It</subtitle>
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    <name>faustus</name>
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  <updated>2010-07-20T21:56:49Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-26:124918:342621</id>
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    <title>2010 Reading XCI-CIX</title>
    <published>2010-07-18T16:14:54Z</published>
    <updated>2010-07-20T21:56:49Z</updated>
    <category term="that seventies thing"/>
    <category term="reading"/>
    <category term="christopher priest"/>
    <category term="2010 books"/>
    <category term="barry n. malzberg"/>
    <dw:mood>literate</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">Catch up time (and not necessarily in this order or a complete listing):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCI: D.G. Compton, &lt;i&gt;Chronocules&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCII: D.G. Compton, &lt;i&gt;A Usual Lunacy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCIII: Michael Coney &lt;i&gt;Sysygy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCIV: Michael Coney &lt;i&gt;Mirror Image&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCV: Michael Coney &lt;i&gt;Brontomek!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCVI: Michael Coney &lt;i&gt;Charisma&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCVII: Christopher Priest, &lt;i&gt;A Dream of Wessex&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCVIII: Christopher Priest, &lt;i&gt;Fugue for a Darkening Isle&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XCIX: K.W. Jeter, &lt;i&gt;Seeklight&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C: K.W. Jeter, &lt;i&gt;The Dreamfields&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CI: K.W. Jeter, &lt;i&gt;Morlock Night&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CII: Suzette Haden Elgin, &lt;i&gt;The Communipaths&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;CIII: Suzette Haden Elgin, &lt;i&gt;Furthest&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CIV: Suzette Haden Elgin, &lt;i&gt;At the Seventh Level&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CV: Suzette Haden Elgin, &lt;i&gt;Star-Anchored, Star-Angered&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CVI: H.G. Wells, &lt;i&gt;The Island of Doctor Moreau&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CVII: Brian Aldiss, &lt;i&gt;Moreau's Other Island&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CVIII: Barry Malzberg, &lt;i&gt;The Sodom and Gomorrah Business&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CIX: Barry Malzberg, &lt;i&gt;Revelations&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&amp;ditemid=342621" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-26:124918:303538</id>
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    <title>2010 Reading VI-IX</title>
    <published>2010-01-11T01:07:02Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-13T22:41:55Z</updated>
    <category term="that seventies thing"/>
    <category term="christopher priest"/>
    <category term="2010 books"/>
    <category term="arthur c. clarke"/>
    <category term="bob shaw"/>
    <dw:mood>literate</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/303538.html#cutid1"&gt;VI: Bob Shaw, Orbitsville (1975)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/303538.html#cutid2"&gt;VII: Christopher Priest, Inverted World (1974)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/303538.html#cutid3"&gt;VIII: Arthur C. Clarke, Imperial Earth (1975)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/303538.html#cutid4"&gt;IX: Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise (1979)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.languageisavirus.com/nanowrimo/word-meter.html" target="_blank" title="NaNoWriMo writing toys games &amp;amp; gadgets"&gt;&lt;div style="width:200px;height:15px;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #000000;"&gt;&lt;div style="width:13%;height:15px;background:#FF0033;font-size:8px;line-height:8px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;12800 / 100000 words. 13% done!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&amp;ditemid=303538" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-26:124918:259336</id>
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    <title>2009 Reading  XX-XXVI</title>
    <published>2009-06-06T23:40:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-06T23:43:49Z</updated>
    <category term="reading"/>
    <category term="2009 books"/>
    <category term="christopher priest"/>
    <category term="walter tevis"/>
    <category term="robert sheckley"/>
    <category term="michael moorcock"/>
    <category term="e. nesbit"/>
    <category term="book reviews"/>
    <category term="picasso"/>
    <dw:mood>literate</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">I seem to have run out of enthusiasm to write about these - I also seem capable of travelling with a pile of books and failing to read any of them. Nor have I entered my Riverside purchases into the database yet, let alone anything more recent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid1"&gt;XX: Christopher Priest, The Space Machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid2"&gt;XXI: Michael Moorcock, The Steel Tsar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___3" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid3"&gt;XXII: E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___3" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___4" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid4"&gt;XXIII: Barry Malzberg, Herovit's World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___4" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___5" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid5"&gt;XXIV: Picasso: Challenging the Past&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___5" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___6" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid6"&gt;XXV: Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___6" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___7" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://faustus.dreamwidth.org/259336.html#cutid7"&gt;XXVI: Robert Sheckley, Immortality, Inc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___7" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Halfway for the year. Could Try Harder...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=faustus&amp;ditemid=259336" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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