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  <name><![CDATA[John Kessel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Corrupting Dr. Nice]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Meeting in Infinity: Allegories &amp; Extrapolations]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mark L. Van Name]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Juniper Tree]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Gute Nachricht von den Sternen.]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The President's Channel]]></title>
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