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	<title>Silence Is a Weapon</title>
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		<title>Hugo Aftermath 2011</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/hugo-aftermath-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again my Hugo predictions were wrong, wrong, horribly wrong. I did get Novella right, but that was a bit of a runaway. I could claim to have called Long Form Drama but Inception was a shoe-in if ever there was one. Obviously the buzz I was hearing was not coming from the right sources. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=84&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My 2011 Hugo Ballot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s Hugo time once again, and once again I offer my opinions and predictions. Beware of spoilers. Best Novel 1 – The Dervish House, Ian McDonald 2 – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin 3 – Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis 4 – Feed, Mira Grant no vote – Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=78&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Facebook minions are stepping up their campaign to assimilate me. Not sure how much longer I can hold out. It occurs to me that for anyone over 20 now, Facebook etc. are letting people get back in touch with people they knew in college, high school, a town they used to live in, an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=69&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playoffs vs. Bowls</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/playoffs-vs-bowls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a subject I&#8217;ve been thinking about, but it had to wait for the right time of year to get posted. Guess what, now is the time. &#160; I consider myself a college football fan. I watch a lot of different sports, but college football is one of my favorites. So it tends to surprise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=66&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Follow-up and Other Book Items</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I like about the Hugo awards is that they release the complete voting and nomination results&#8211;see them here. This particular year I think it&#8217;s interesting to see that the top two novels started out in a tie, shifted around a little bit as others were eliminated, and then ended in a tie again. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=62&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Hugo Ballot</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/a-new-hugo-ballot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I offered my &#8220;virtual&#8221; Hugo ballot since I failed to read everything before the voting deadline. But this year I did all the reading so this is my actual ballot. Although the importance of the award is debatable, for me the value of voting is that it makes me read new books &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=58&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clash of the Machina</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/clash-of-the-machina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least I didn't have to watch it in 3D.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=51&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Blog</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/how-not-to-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to give myself permission to write short blog posts. Not everything has to be a cogent, weighty, detailed, insightful essay (thank you thesaurus.com). Nor does everything have to fit into a tweet. I have a bad habit of overanalyzing whatever the subject is to the point where when I&#8217;m ready to blog about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=48&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe I Don&#8217;t Want the Game to Change</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/maybe-i-dont-want-the-game-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Game-changer&#8221; seems to be the favorite term to describe Avatar. Will this usher in a new era of moviemaking? Seamless integration of live actors and digital scenery, anything the director can imagine, and all of it jumping off the screen and right into your lap in three totally realistic dimensions? Maybe so, but the question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskorp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7240628&amp;post=45&amp;subd=eskorp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the Meme Thing</title>
		<link>http://eskorp.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/doing-the-meme-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meme was to think of 15 books in 15 minutes that “will always stick with you.” Officially I think you were supposed to list your favorites first, but I'm not doing that. I didn't cheat, didn't look at any bookshelves or websites or anything, it was strictly from memory. I didn't use a stopwatch but I think I came up with most of them pretty quickly. So let's go to the scoreboard:

Desolation Road, Ian McDonald

The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander

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