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	<title>Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy</title>
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		<title>Accolades for Mecha Corps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, I&#8217;m not the only one who likes giant robots. Blame it on Johnny Socko, Gundam, and Evangelion. Or blame it on some deep-seated archetype that squats on our consciousness, making it yearn for the unlimited power&#8211;no. Wait. Nevermind. That&#8217;s way too deep. Let&#8217;s have some fun! &#8220;Mecha Corps by debut novelist Brett Patton is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2012/01/14/accolades-for-mecha-corps/</link>
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		<title>A Salute to Audacity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I will put millions of people on Mars,&#8221; says Elon Musk, in a recent New Scientist interview. Sit back and think about that a minute. And repeat it to yourself. A self-made billionaire who&#8217;s revolutionizing space travel and reinventing the automobile has now said, &#8220;I will put millions of people on Mars.&#8221; It&#8217;s like something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2011/12/24/a-salute-to-audacity/</link>
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		<title>My Alter Ego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A whole bunch of people have been wondering what the heck has happened to me. A while back, an industry pundit declared &#8220;Jason Stoddard Week&#8221; because I was showing up in so many magazines and online publications at once. In the past couple of years, not so much. Well, hey, I have Winning Mars out, y&#8217;know. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2011/12/20/my-alter-ego/</link>
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		<title>Winning Mars: Debut of the Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in: Winning Mars was chosen by Library Journal as their &#8220;Debut of the Month!&#8221; Here&#8217;s what they have to say: In a future where the art of “linear entertainment”—better known as TV shows—is giving way to interactive, massive multiuser online gaming (MMOs), producer Jere Gutierrez conceives of a “reality show” set on yet-to-be-colonized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2011/12/15/winning-mars-debut-of-the-month/</link>
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		<title>Covers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing is cool, but sometimes pictures are even more fun. So: here are the covers for a couple upcoming works from me. The first, Panverse Three, features my novella, Orion Rising. It&#8217;s an alternate history, based on a short conversation I had with Freeman Dyson at a conference a few years back. Now, you&#8217;ve probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2011/07/11/covers/</link>
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		<title>Back From the Dead!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not dead. No, I haven&#8217;t accepted a multimillion dollar offer to stop writing forever. No, I haven&#8217;t been abducted by aliens and replaced with a perfect facsimile. At least I don&#8217;t think so. But then again, how would I know? I mean, if the facsimile was really perfect . . . but I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2011/05/05/back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<title>No Time to Post, All the Time in the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, here&#8217;s something you won&#8217;t see in Newsweek. Or Slate. Or on Fox. Or Huffington Post. How it&#8217;s escaped the notice of io9, I have no idea. BoingBoing noted it in February, and I mentioned it shortly afterwards. Now it&#8217;s getting real. What is it? Nothing less than a group of crazy Danes shooting off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/08/22/no-time-to-post-all-the-time-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Ennui and Dark Nights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those days after an insane week, with a few glasses of wine and some introspection. So if you&#8217;re not interested in the blathering of an overworked writer/creative-type/engineer, push off now. You won&#8217;t find any interest in what I&#8217;m about to post. But this is one of those days when I ask, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/08/20/ennui-and-dark-nights/</link>
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		<title>Dormancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey all, you may have notice the lack of content here. The reasons are simple: first, I&#8217;m working on a new Project That Shall Not Be Named, AKA a new book. That&#8217;s eating up insane amounts of time. I should surface sometime in September from the first draft phase. In the meantime, I have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/08/07/dormancy/</link>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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: [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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.]]></description>
		<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.]]></description>
		<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, [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://strangeandhappy.com/2010/04/18/crossing-the-chasm-part-2-embracing-the-other/</link>
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