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	<title>Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy</title>
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		<title>Google and California: Two Ad Futures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In which I propose a new maxim: What is good for Google is not automatically good for the state.
In the right hands, advertising can change the world. Look at Google. A lot of us forget Google&#8217;s grand empire is built entirely on advertising. Those sponsored links, and text ads you see in blogs have brought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/06/26/google-and-california-two-ad-futures/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your &#8220;Why?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of Samuel Pierpont Langley?
At the turn of the century, when the quest for a &#8220;flying machine&#8221; was running like the first dot-com revolution, he was the person most favored to develop the airplane. He had boatloads of money from the US government, had a seat at Harvard and worked at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/06/12/whats-your-why/</link>
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		<title>A Great Week for Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As SF aficionados, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noted the successful launch of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon and Dragon, the first privately-constructed rocket to make it to LEO. The mere fact that we&#8217;re entering an era of commercial space flight is enough to make this a significant milestone, but it gets even more interesting when you break it down:
1. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/06/05/a-great-week-for-space/</link>
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		<title>New Release Date for Winning Mars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a lot of people asking me when Winning Mars, my first novel, is going to be released, especially since Amazon still claims &#8220;March 2010&#8243; for the release date. Well, I&#8217;m pleased to say that my Quantum Time Transposer is operational, and I&#8217;ll be moving the entire world back in time till February 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/06/05/new-release-date-for-winning-mars/</link>
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		<title>Challenge Your Assumptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the long weekend, I met Tyler, a smart graduate student who is finishing a Masters degree in philosophy. An outspoken, debate-team champion on the national level, I worried when he collided with another smart, outspoken, and extremely well-read acquaintance who is about as paleoconservative as you can get.
I shouldn&#8217;t have worried. Tyler not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/06/01/challenge-your-assumptions/</link>
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		<title>More Overhead Reviews—and a Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yeah, I know, lay off the Shine already.
But let&#8217;s start with the reviews:
From SF Revu, Liviu Suciu:
For me this was the best story of the anthology and not surprising it is the one that involves exploration of Outer Space, namely a colony on the dark side of the moon &#8211; so it stays out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/05/16/more-overhead-reviews%e2%80%94and-a-question/</link>
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		<title>A Momentary Pause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just so I can say this: 
Three of the most exciting things I&#8217;m working on I can&#8217;t talk about.
If things seem quiet on the writing front, this is why. No worries. You&#8217;ll hear more from me soon enough — perhaps more than you&#8217;d ever want to.
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		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/05/16/a-momentary-pause/</link>
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		<title>I Imagine the Future Looks Like This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skies full of soaring algorithmic animals, interacting in amazing ways. 

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		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/05/02/i-imagine-the-future-looks-like-this/</link>
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		<title>Four Arguments FOR Immortality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a counterpoint to this post on i09, here are four arguments for immortality:
1. Health care problems, solved. As a society, we can&#8217;t stop talking about healthcare, the costs thereof (trillions of dollars in the US alone), and all the behavioral and social implications. Personally, we mourn loved ones who have passed away, or, worse, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/24/four-arguments-for-immortality/</link>
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		<title>Interview on Edge of Tomorrow; 140@140 Review of White Swan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of quick notes here.
First, I&#8217;ve been interviewed by Wade Inganamort of Edge of Tomorrow&#8211;really interesting stuff, talking about bumps on the road to a post-scarcity economy, what a post-scarcity economy might actually look like, and some of the deeper implications of post-scarcity. One of the toughest interviews I&#8217;ve done! Take some time, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/19/interview-on-edge-of-tomorrow-140140-review-of-white-swan/</link>
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		<title>Crossing the Chasm, Part 2: Embracing the Other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on &#8220;Crossing the Chasm, Part 1,&#8221; let&#8217;s look at some ways we can get more people to become science fiction fans. Specifically, how we can move people from &#8220;popular metascience&#8221; to text-based science fiction.
But first, disclaimers: This isn&#8217;t about bashing the text SF outlets. And it&#8217;s not about elevating the mainstream sites. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/18/crossing-the-chasm-part-2-embracing-the-other/</link>
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		<title>Interviews On SFSignal and The Science of Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do you write science fiction? Is it hard to stay positive? If you keep doing it, does writing get any easier? How did you sell your first story?
If you&#8217;re interested in the answers to these questions&#8211;and many more&#8211;check out these two recent interviews.
From Charles Tan, of The Bibliophile Stalker (and Shine reviewer), an interview [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/11/interviews-on-sfsignal-and-the-science-of-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Crossing the Chasm, Part 1: Acknowledging the Chasm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tell me why this equation holds true: Geeks &#62;&#62; Science Fiction Fans
&#8220;Whoa, whoa, whoa!&#8221; you say. &#8220;That&#8217;s offensive! I&#8217;m certainly not a geek, even though I do love my Android phone, spend hours playing Halo and watching SF movies on the home theater PC I built myself, and recently renewed my subscription to Make magazine. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/09/crossing-the-chasm-part-1-acknowledging-the-chasm/</link>
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		<title>You Win Some, You Lose Some (and Then You Win Some More)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the Shine anthology reviews have started, and with them come some assessments of my positive-SF story &#8220;Overhead.&#8221;
In one reviewer&#8217;s words: &#8220;&#8230;arguably the anthology’s standout story – Jason Stoddard’s “Overhead” follows a colony on the Moon through a series of potential disasters and exemplifies some of humankind’s finest traits: perseverance, ingenuity, and hope.&#8221; Read the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/01/you-win-some-you-lose-some/</link>
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		<title>Orion Rising accepted by Panverse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what might have happened if we&#8217;d gone the Orion route rather than Apollo?
A few years ago, I got to meet Freeman Dyson at a conference about the commercialization of space—and, during our conversation, he convinced me that we&#8217;d gotten amazingly close to engaging in space travel on a grand scale. As in, Mars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/03/31/orion-rising-accepted-by-panverse/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts for Working Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, &#8220;How do you find the time to run a business, and maintain your writing schedule?&#8221;
It&#8217;s easy to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m a workaholic,&#8221; and leave it at that. But if I was only a workaholic, I wouldn&#8217;t care what I was working on. I could lock myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/03/27/thoughts-for-working-writers/</link>
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		<title>Back to Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;m finished posting Eternal Franchise, it&#8217;s back to the real work of writing for this blog. Expect to see about an article a week from me, around such topics as writing advice, new developments that affect SF and writing, and, of course, the ever-popular &#8220;cool!-sold-&#8217;nother-story/novel/script/game&#8221; announcements.
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		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/03/26/back-to-work/</link>
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		<title>Is Fun, Meaningful SF Possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, a disclaimer. I&#8217;m a simple guy. I don&#8217;t ask questions like this because I already know the answer. I don&#8217;t ask  because I have a fun, meaningful SF book in my back pocket, either.
I&#8217;m asking this for two reasons. First, this thread, full of fun (and terrible) fake SF book covers reminded me how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/03/21/is-fun-meaningful-sf-possible/</link>
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		<title>Eternal Franchise, 31.1 of 31.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
Across the solar system, Winfinity warships and Four Hands dreadnaughts fell silent. Gunners still frantically worked the controls, but the guns didn’t respond. Missiles were programmed and scheduled for launch, but the launches didn’t happen. Nukes were readied, pushed out of ships by hand, attached to dumb boosters, and sent into the midst of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/03/21/eternal-franchise-31-1-of-31-1/</link>
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		<title>Eternal Franchise, 30.1 of 31.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHAPTER THIRTY
The Shrill blurred towards Highest Chambers. Honored Yin screamed and jerked forward. More shots from the Mouseketeers cratered the floor, but never touched it.
The Shrill stopped. Its scream ceased. The staticky scrabbling of silicon-carbide claws on hard polymer and stone died.
Momentum carried it almost to the tip of Highest Chambers’ leather shoe. He minced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/03/14/eternal-franchise-30-1-of-31-1/</link>
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