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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:54:00 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is not a novel. Rather, this book contains a long, excellent short story called &quot;The Lucky Strike,&quot; about making ethical choices and how history can tip drastically in one direction or another based on one event or decision; an essay by KSR on the story; a long, fascinating interview ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/This%20is%20not%20a%20novel.%20Rather,%20this%20book%20contains%20a%20long,%20excellent%20short%20story%20called%20%22The%20Lucky%20Strike,%22%20about%20making%20ethical%20choices%20and%20how%20history%20can%20tip%20drastically%20in%20one%20direction%20or%20another%20based%20on%20one%20event%20or%20decision;%20an%20essay%20by%20KSR%20on%20the%20story;%20a%20long,%20fascinating%20interview%20with%20KSR;%20and%20a%20KSR%20bibliography.%20This%20new%20series%20of%20books%20about%20%22outspoken%20authors%22%20looks%20interesting%20and%20I%20plan%20to%20buy%20others%20in%20the%20series.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:45:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Galileo is brilliantly brought to life in this novel about the place of science in the world and its uses and misuses. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:39:24 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have to admit that I didn't read this book through. I didn't even get to the fifty-page mark that people recommend. I found it so tedious and unbelievable that I quit after 30 pages. Perhaps young teens and preteens would enjoy it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:36:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book has many excellent stories, several of them award winners. My favorite was &quot;Jack.&quot; It and many others are excellent examples of a writer building a believable world you feel you are in.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:19:58 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[There are plenty of books for the beginning writer in the marketplace, but this is the only one I know of that is also oriented toward the midlist author. The focus is career management, with Maass giving advice on such topics as when to quit your day job and how to break out of the midlist (a topic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/There%20are%20plenty%20of%20books%20for%20the%20beginning%20writer%20in%20the%20marketplace,%20but%20this%20is%20the%20only%20one%20I%20know%20of%20that%20is%20also%20oriented%20toward%20the%20midlist%20author.%20The%20focus%20is%20career%20management,%20with%20Maass%20giving%20advice%20on%20such%20topics%20as%20when%20to%20quit%20your%20day%20job%20and%20how%20to%20break%20out%20of%20the%20midlist%20(a%20topic%20he%20goes%20into%20more%20depth%20on%20in%20his%20Writing%20the%20Breakout%20Novel%20books).">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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