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  <name><![CDATA[Bill DeSmedt]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Bill DeSmedt has spent his life living by his wits and his words. In his time, and as the spirit has moved him, he’s been: a Soviet Area expert and Soviet exchange student, a computer programmer and system designer, a consultant to startups and the Fortune 500, an Artificial Intelligence researcher, an omnivorous reader with a soft spot for science fiction and science non-fiction, and now, Lord help us, a novelist!

Bill's first novel, &lt;i&gt;Singularity&lt;/i&gt;, won &lt;i&gt;Foreword Magazine&lt;/i&gt;'s Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and the Independent Publisher Group's IPPY for Best Science Fiction. The free podcast of &lt;i&gt;Singularity&lt;/i&gt;, available on the web at Podiobooks.com, has gone on to be named an SFFaudio Essential, while Bill himself has gone on to writing a sequel, &lt;i&gt;Dualism&lt;/i&gt;.]]></about>            
  
  
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