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Maliha Anderson, Books 1-3
1908. Three gruesome deaths in three mysterious tales in a past that never was.
In Murder out of the Blue, aboard the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia, Maliha Anderson, Anglo-Indian daughter of a Scottish engineer and a Brahmin scholar, hopes to make peace with her past - but then the nurse of the wheelchair-bound General is murdered.
Only Maliha believes he is innocent, and with landfall in India only hours away, she must find the real murderer, even though doing so puts her own life at risk.
In Blood Sky at Night, Maliha is forced to investigate a murder of an old acquaintance but finds herself enmeshed in a clash of empires. But where do her loyalties truly lie?
And, in Halo Round the Moon, Maliha comes face-to-face with the suppressed passions of post-Victorian society and goes far beyond the bounds of what's proper and decent. Will she lose herself in the journey or find her true place?
In Murder out of the Blue, aboard the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia, Maliha Anderson, Anglo-Indian daughter of a Scottish engineer and a Brahmin scholar, hopes to make peace with her past - but then the nurse of the wheelchair-bound General is murdered.
Only Maliha believes he is innocent, and with landfall in India only hours away, she must find the real murderer, even though doing so puts her own life at risk.
In Blood Sky at Night, Maliha is forced to investigate a murder of an old acquaintance but finds herself enmeshed in a clash of empires. But where do her loyalties truly lie?
And, in Halo Round the Moon, Maliha comes face-to-face with the suppressed passions of post-Victorian society and goes far beyond the bounds of what's proper and decent. Will she lose herself in the journey or find her true place?
336 pages, Hardcover
First published August 28, 2014
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Steve Turnbull
63 books360 followersWhen he's not sitting at his computer building websites for national institutions and international companies, Steve Turnbull can be found sitting at his computer building new worlds of steampunk, science fiction and fantasy.
Technically Steve was born a cockney but after five years he was moved out from London to the suburbs where he grew up and he talks posh now. He's been a voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy since his early years, but it was poet Laurie Lee's autobiography "Cider with Rosie" (picked up because he was bored in Maths) that taught him the beauty of language and spurred him into becoming a writer, aged 15. He spent twenty years editing and writing for computer magazines while writing poetry on the side.
Nowadays he writes screenplays (TV and features), prose and computer programs.
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Technically Steve was born a cockney but after five years he was moved out from London to the suburbs where he grew up and he talks posh now. He's been a voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy since his early years, but it was poet Laurie Lee's autobiography "Cider with Rosie" (picked up because he was bored in Maths) that taught him the beauty of language and spurred him into becoming a writer, aged 15. He spent twenty years editing and writing for computer magazines while writing poetry on the side.
Nowadays he writes screenplays (TV and features), prose and computer programs.
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January 16, 2016
This is a collection of three short steampunk novellas. I got an ebook in exchange for an honest review. The main character Maliha is a biracial woman and she needs a walking stick.
The year for the stories isn’t clearly stated until in the third novella. They take place during the reign of Edward II but in an alternate world where anti-gravity machines, called Faraday devices, have been invented and are used by the British Empire. Also, it seems that the British have gone to Venus and Mars which have at least plants.
Alice Maliha Anderson is the daughter of a high-born Indian lady and a Scottish engineer. Her family lives in India but Maliha has been sent to a boarding school in Britain. Unfortunately, the other girls made her life very unpleasant and her leg was also permanently injured during her school years so that she needs a cane to walk around. She’s a determined lady who has learned not to let anyone or anything stand in her way. But she’s keenly aware that she isn’t white enough to be British or dark enough to be Indian. She’s also very used to nobody wanting to even talk to her and keeping all people at an arm’s length. She’s a very proper Victorian woman with regards to personal relationships.
“Murder out of Blue” is the first novella where Maliha is finally returning home to India to her family via Ceylon. She travels by a flying ship which uses a Faraday device. That lessens the effects of gravity and allows her to walk without the cane. She travels in first class with a colorful company. At first, she’s keenly aware that everyone keeps an eye out on her but then she makes a few friends. However, then the body of one of the passengers is found murdered and much to her surprise, Maliha finds out that she’s also a suspect.
Another passenger urges Maliha to investigate; it seems that Maliha had solved another case earlier. Inspector Forsyth from Ceylon police department doesn’t want a woman messing in his case but he quickly realizes that she’s exceptionally perceptive. Maliha also meets Mr. William Crier who doesn’t appear to be intimidated by a strong woman.
The second novella, Blood Sky at Night, is set in Ceylon. A woman who Maliha knew at the boarding school is in trouble and she intends to contact Maliha for help. But before she can do so, she’s murdered. The woman’s pupil contacts Maliha instead. The pupil is a princess from a Bali royal line and the only survivor of a recent massacre. This time Inspector Forsyth and his deputy Detective Constable Choudhary can’t avoid Maliha getting involved in the case.
“Halo Around the Moon” is the third novella and it’s set mostly on Ceylon. One of Mr. Crier’s distant friends has died seemingly in a riding accident and he travels to the mainland of India for the funeral. He invites Maliha along because he wants to be sure that his young friend really died from an accident and because he wants to spend more time with the aloof and proper woman.
The novellas are entertaining and each novella gets better (and longer). None of them end in a cliffhanger and the first two can be read as a stand-alones. The short length means that the stories don’t have much space for red herrings, tough. They have romance only as a possible undercurrent, until the third novella. The stories have some non-hetero people and they also deal with racism and colonialism. The one thing the stories lack is humor. Maliha is always earnest and serious.
I enjoyed the stories even though sometimes the sentence structures are awkward (for example “The horse had leapt the fallen tree trunk without a problem and although there had been no pace adjustment but something had gone wrong.” “Both raised their hats as drew closer.”) and I would have liked to get more descriptions of people and places. Maliha is a delightful protagonist and the stories have a historical feel.
The year for the stories isn’t clearly stated until in the third novella. They take place during the reign of Edward II but in an alternate world where anti-gravity machines, called Faraday devices, have been invented and are used by the British Empire. Also, it seems that the British have gone to Venus and Mars which have at least plants.
Alice Maliha Anderson is the daughter of a high-born Indian lady and a Scottish engineer. Her family lives in India but Maliha has been sent to a boarding school in Britain. Unfortunately, the other girls made her life very unpleasant and her leg was also permanently injured during her school years so that she needs a cane to walk around. She’s a determined lady who has learned not to let anyone or anything stand in her way. But she’s keenly aware that she isn’t white enough to be British or dark enough to be Indian. She’s also very used to nobody wanting to even talk to her and keeping all people at an arm’s length. She’s a very proper Victorian woman with regards to personal relationships.
“Murder out of Blue” is the first novella where Maliha is finally returning home to India to her family via Ceylon. She travels by a flying ship which uses a Faraday device. That lessens the effects of gravity and allows her to walk without the cane. She travels in first class with a colorful company. At first, she’s keenly aware that everyone keeps an eye out on her but then she makes a few friends. However, then the body of one of the passengers is found murdered and much to her surprise, Maliha finds out that she’s also a suspect.
Another passenger urges Maliha to investigate; it seems that Maliha had solved another case earlier. Inspector Forsyth from Ceylon police department doesn’t want a woman messing in his case but he quickly realizes that she’s exceptionally perceptive. Maliha also meets Mr. William Crier who doesn’t appear to be intimidated by a strong woman.
The second novella, Blood Sky at Night, is set in Ceylon. A woman who Maliha knew at the boarding school is in trouble and she intends to contact Maliha for help. But before she can do so, she’s murdered. The woman’s pupil contacts Maliha instead. The pupil is a princess from a Bali royal line and the only survivor of a recent massacre. This time Inspector Forsyth and his deputy Detective Constable Choudhary can’t avoid Maliha getting involved in the case.
“Halo Around the Moon” is the third novella and it’s set mostly on Ceylon. One of Mr. Crier’s distant friends has died seemingly in a riding accident and he travels to the mainland of India for the funeral. He invites Maliha along because he wants to be sure that his young friend really died from an accident and because he wants to spend more time with the aloof and proper woman.
The novellas are entertaining and each novella gets better (and longer). None of them end in a cliffhanger and the first two can be read as a stand-alones. The short length means that the stories don’t have much space for red herrings, tough. They have romance only as a possible undercurrent, until the third novella. The stories have some non-hetero people and they also deal with racism and colonialism. The one thing the stories lack is humor. Maliha is always earnest and serious.
I enjoyed the stories even though sometimes the sentence structures are awkward (for example “The horse had leapt the fallen tree trunk without a problem and although there had been no pace adjustment but something had gone wrong.” “Both raised their hats as drew closer.”) and I would have liked to get more descriptions of people and places. Maliha is a delightful protagonist and the stories have a historical feel.
November 15, 2014
Turnbull displays a sympathetic touch for the issues faced by a mixed race woman in the British Raj without sacrificing the sense of wonder appropriate to narratives of steam punk worlds and gentle-person detectives.
This collection contains the first three Maliha Anderson Mysteries: Murder out of the Blue, Blood Sky at Night, and Halo Round the Moon. Every effort has been made in this review to avoid spoilers, but mystery fans are often insightful so there are no guarantees there are no unconscious revelations.
Born to an Indian Brahmin mother and a Scottish engineer father, Maliha Anderson has been raised in the best public school tradition and admitted to polite society, but never allowed to forget she isn’t white. Even when not faced with subtle prejudice from both sides of her heritage, her involvement in solving a murder at Roedean brings either disdain for unladylike behaviour or prurient interest. Seeking only to return home, her plans to put her past behind her are thrown into disarray by a mysterious death on the airship upon which she is travelling.
While Turnbull correctly suggests these novels are more crime mystery than steam punk escapade, his fusion of India at the height of the British Empire with anti-gravity and other tropes of speculative history is highly skilled.
Based firmly in this engaging alternate history but powered by human flaws all too familiar in the real world, the mysteries are filled with twists and reversals without becoming either convoluted or confusing for the sake of it.
Their only potential weakness is that point of view characters occasionally notice things or arrange events off page, and make no reference to them until they are relevant. Readers who draw most of their enjoyment from solving the mystery alongside the detective might therefore irritated by the revelation of evidence or the convenient appearance of pre-arranged assistance. However, this is a minor issue compared to the tight plotting.
Maliha herself is as well written as the background and plot. Intelligent enough not only to recognise that choosing one side of her heritage or the other is always going to be a poor choice but also that the alternatives are worse, she would be an interesting enough character for that alone. The addition of her plausible struggle between the propriety she wishes to display, the curiosity of her youth, and her innate sense of justice, makes her both sympathetic and rounded.
The supporting characters are similarly solid. Whether British or Indian, high- or low-class, they possess a similar sense of their place in a very restrictive society while never being defined solely by it.
Turnbull’s skill in characterisation is particularly evident in the recurring characters across the series. Even with hindsight, the characters who will return in later books are neither given special treatment when first encountered nor introduced with obvious expansion of their histories when they return. Where this uncertainty over who is going to be important later might add a pleasant depth to any work, it is especially powerful in the unexpected-victim-heavy world of crime mysteries.
Overall, I enjoyed these novels immensely. I recommend them both to readers seeking a solid speculative or historical thriller and to those interested in the perspective of those trapped outside their culture.
I received a free copy from the author in exchange for a fair review.
This collection contains the first three Maliha Anderson Mysteries: Murder out of the Blue, Blood Sky at Night, and Halo Round the Moon. Every effort has been made in this review to avoid spoilers, but mystery fans are often insightful so there are no guarantees there are no unconscious revelations.
Born to an Indian Brahmin mother and a Scottish engineer father, Maliha Anderson has been raised in the best public school tradition and admitted to polite society, but never allowed to forget she isn’t white. Even when not faced with subtle prejudice from both sides of her heritage, her involvement in solving a murder at Roedean brings either disdain for unladylike behaviour or prurient interest. Seeking only to return home, her plans to put her past behind her are thrown into disarray by a mysterious death on the airship upon which she is travelling.
While Turnbull correctly suggests these novels are more crime mystery than steam punk escapade, his fusion of India at the height of the British Empire with anti-gravity and other tropes of speculative history is highly skilled.
Based firmly in this engaging alternate history but powered by human flaws all too familiar in the real world, the mysteries are filled with twists and reversals without becoming either convoluted or confusing for the sake of it.
Their only potential weakness is that point of view characters occasionally notice things or arrange events off page, and make no reference to them until they are relevant. Readers who draw most of their enjoyment from solving the mystery alongside the detective might therefore irritated by the revelation of evidence or the convenient appearance of pre-arranged assistance. However, this is a minor issue compared to the tight plotting.
Maliha herself is as well written as the background and plot. Intelligent enough not only to recognise that choosing one side of her heritage or the other is always going to be a poor choice but also that the alternatives are worse, she would be an interesting enough character for that alone. The addition of her plausible struggle between the propriety she wishes to display, the curiosity of her youth, and her innate sense of justice, makes her both sympathetic and rounded.
The supporting characters are similarly solid. Whether British or Indian, high- or low-class, they possess a similar sense of their place in a very restrictive society while never being defined solely by it.
Turnbull’s skill in characterisation is particularly evident in the recurring characters across the series. Even with hindsight, the characters who will return in later books are neither given special treatment when first encountered nor introduced with obvious expansion of their histories when they return. Where this uncertainty over who is going to be important later might add a pleasant depth to any work, it is especially powerful in the unexpected-victim-heavy world of crime mysteries.
Overall, I enjoyed these novels immensely. I recommend them both to readers seeking a solid speculative or historical thriller and to those interested in the perspective of those trapped outside their culture.
I received a free copy from the author in exchange for a fair review.
February 13, 2015
wow. its not often that a book comes along that sweeps me off my feet and immerses me in its world.
The first Mahlia Anderson lured me in like an expert fisherman. By the time I finished it I was in love with the world and hooked on the characters.
I found myself finding excuses to sneak off into a quiet corner and read some more of Mahlia's story.
The voidship world is amazing and Steve Turnbull shows just enough of the world to pique interest and add colour to the story. I particularly enjoyed descriptions of King Bertie.
He explores darker themes in later stories but does so with heartbreaking grace. tactful yet powerful.
The first Mahlia Anderson lured me in like an expert fisherman. By the time I finished it I was in love with the world and hooked on the characters.
I found myself finding excuses to sneak off into a quiet corner and read some more of Mahlia's story.
The voidship world is amazing and Steve Turnbull shows just enough of the world to pique interest and add colour to the story. I particularly enjoyed descriptions of King Bertie.
He explores darker themes in later stories but does so with heartbreaking grace. tactful yet powerful.
May 8, 2016
Mystery, sci if steampunk, Edwardian imperialism...utterly fantastic! I've read the six books of the Maliha Anderson set, and I just love them. A strong female lead who gets increasingly likeable, great character development, and great stories. The author does an excellent job of dealing with the imperial setting with his bicultural heroine. The crimes are awful, but every single thing in these books is grounded in the writing of characters who feel utterly real. May there be more, and soon. I'll be on to the prequel right away.
December 27, 2014
This is a wonderfully fresh read. The setting, the characters, the steampunk elements are all delightful. Maliha is the kind of deeply drawn heroine that kept me reading eagerly through all three mysteries in the set. Turnbull tackles tough issues in a surprising setting -- not just steampunk, but British India steampunk! This is a great choice for anyone who likes Laurie King's Mary Russell. You won't go wrong on this one!
March 13, 2016
A series of three stories around the central character, Maliha (Alice) Anderson, offspring of a Scot and an Indian. In a sort of Victorian background, she faces prejudice whilst solving murders!
A lot of the backstory is only hinted at, with bits being revealed over the three tales. SPOILER: The ending is unexpected. I want the next book, or the author to rewrite it!
Recommended
A lot of the backstory is only hinted at, with bits being revealed over the three tales. SPOILER: The ending is unexpected. I want the next book, or the author to rewrite it!
Recommended
October 28, 2017
3.5 stars, actually.
This was uneven. However, each successive story got better and more intriguing as the story (and possibly the writing) got deeper into the alternate colonial east indies and the main character's emotional arc both with her mentor and her love interest.
The first book (only 80 pages) introduces Maliha as she rides in a dirigible on her way home. She is somewhat of a loner-- too native for the British, too British for the natives. She's the only brown-skinned girl in the first class compartment. A maid is murdered, and Maliha investigates. During the investigation she makes herself known to a Mr. Crier, who is suspiciously agile and good with guns, and a Mrs. Makepeace-Flynn who will become her mentor.
Truthfully, I almost stopped reading at the first book. There was an unfortunately repeated almost verbatim description of the Fortress that a quick editing eye could have fixed up. There's also obvious backstory (prequel or novella hanging around out there somewhere as all the characters refer to the Taliesin Affair as if we should know what it is, but we don't) but no explanation for the way Maliha moves about the ship and the murder mystery emotionally aloof, completely bound by polite conventions, and surprisingly able to order around older, richer, white people with no social repercussions at all. In fact, her character read to me so much like a white man instead of a half-native young girl that it made me almost quit in frustration. I kept saying to myself "why are they letting her order them around like this?" etc. And she gets some extremely upsetting news at the end, I mean, REALLY upsetting but this barely registers. T
It's still barely registering as we begin the second book now with Maliha ensconced in her mentor's house. The second and third book involve local murders on the ground, and a deepening relationship with Mr. Crier, who can also fly airplanes and is perfectly willing for Maliha to order him around, use him as transportation, criticize his every word, and act fairly coldly.
And here's my main problem with Maliha: she's emotionally stunted. This is okay if it informs her character in a logical way, in a spock/holmes/data kind of way, but the climax of the third book has her making some illogical choices about putting herself in harm's way partly in order to seek what she considers emotional tutelage-- and I felt a more coldly logical character would have made different choices.
So it's possible that my issues with the book revolve around my own personal preference for stories (even in the steampunk genre which granted, is actually a genre where lingering on descriptions of gadgets and clothing is acceptable because they're so cool) that focus more on the emotional arc of the main character. And I realize that its become quite trendy for main characters to be young girls these days, but I almost wished Maliha was a boy instead, so that the leeway the other characters gave her would be explained, or, alternatively for female Maliha to experience more consequences from her aloof and commanding manner that this alternate colonial indies world surely would have a negative reaction to.
On the other hand, because the story as it progressed by the third book allowed Maliha to emerge as grappling with her own emotional issues a bit, it kept me reading. So I guess whether you'd enjoy it depends on whether you read steampunk purely for the coolness/entertainment factor, or whether you want a bit more emotional meat on the bones of the story.
This was uneven. However, each successive story got better and more intriguing as the story (and possibly the writing) got deeper into the alternate colonial east indies and the main character's emotional arc both with her mentor and her love interest.
The first book (only 80 pages) introduces Maliha as she rides in a dirigible on her way home. She is somewhat of a loner-- too native for the British, too British for the natives. She's the only brown-skinned girl in the first class compartment. A maid is murdered, and Maliha investigates. During the investigation she makes herself known to a Mr. Crier, who is suspiciously agile and good with guns, and a Mrs. Makepeace-Flynn who will become her mentor.
Truthfully, I almost stopped reading at the first book. There was an unfortunately repeated almost verbatim description of the Fortress that a quick editing eye could have fixed up. There's also obvious backstory (prequel or novella hanging around out there somewhere as all the characters refer to the Taliesin Affair as if we should know what it is, but we don't) but no explanation for the way Maliha moves about the ship and the murder mystery emotionally aloof, completely bound by polite conventions, and surprisingly able to order around older, richer, white people with no social repercussions at all. In fact, her character read to me so much like a white man instead of a half-native young girl that it made me almost quit in frustration. I kept saying to myself "why are they letting her order them around like this?" etc. And she gets some extremely upsetting news at the end, I mean, REALLY upsetting but this barely registers. T
It's still barely registering as we begin the second book now with Maliha ensconced in her mentor's house. The second and third book involve local murders on the ground, and a deepening relationship with Mr. Crier, who can also fly airplanes and is perfectly willing for Maliha to order him around, use him as transportation, criticize his every word, and act fairly coldly.
And here's my main problem with Maliha: she's emotionally stunted. This is okay if it informs her character in a logical way, in a spock/holmes/data kind of way, but the climax of the third book has her making some illogical choices about putting herself in harm's way partly in order to seek what she considers emotional tutelage-- and I felt a more coldly logical character would have made different choices.
So it's possible that my issues with the book revolve around my own personal preference for stories (even in the steampunk genre which granted, is actually a genre where lingering on descriptions of gadgets and clothing is acceptable because they're so cool) that focus more on the emotional arc of the main character. And I realize that its become quite trendy for main characters to be young girls these days, but I almost wished Maliha was a boy instead, so that the leeway the other characters gave her would be explained, or, alternatively for female Maliha to experience more consequences from her aloof and commanding manner that this alternate colonial indies world surely would have a negative reaction to.
On the other hand, because the story as it progressed by the third book allowed Maliha to emerge as grappling with her own emotional issues a bit, it kept me reading. So I guess whether you'd enjoy it depends on whether you read steampunk purely for the coolness/entertainment factor, or whether you want a bit more emotional meat on the bones of the story.
September 29, 2017
My first time reading steam punk.
I like the stories, the mysteries, the characters, I guess I just don't get what the steam punkishness contributes to the stories. That aside I really enjoyed Maliha's quirky personality, and the conflict of her being mixed race. It's interesting to see these same boorish prejudices today reflected in a make believe past. Now we can look down our noses at the primitive ideology, but especially in this racist country it's disheartening to know things don't change much.
These books are mostly well written. In the second, and more noticeably in the third, there were some editing errors. I appreciated that each book continues the lives of characters I have become invested in, but there are no cliffhangers. I hate cliffhangers! So this is closer to 4.5 stars.
I like the stories, the mysteries, the characters, I guess I just don't get what the steam punkishness contributes to the stories. That aside I really enjoyed Maliha's quirky personality, and the conflict of her being mixed race. It's interesting to see these same boorish prejudices today reflected in a make believe past. Now we can look down our noses at the primitive ideology, but especially in this racist country it's disheartening to know things don't change much.
These books are mostly well written. In the second, and more noticeably in the third, there were some editing errors. I appreciated that each book continues the lives of characters I have become invested in, but there are no cliffhangers. I hate cliffhangers! So this is closer to 4.5 stars.
March 21, 2017
Kindle Unlimited, writer of several sets {sets ku, when sold separate may not be}. Serialized type would say and a bit steam punk and mystery adventure.
Maliha Anderson, Books 1-3
Harry Takes Off: Books 1 - 3
Frozen Beauty: Books 1 - 3
The Faraday Cage {different writers, more like small anthology from voidships universe}
Elona (Patterner's Path Book 1) {different than the above, probably due a couple more installments too, more sci fi less steampunk than others}}
Maliha Anderson, Books 1-3
Harry Takes Off: Books 1 - 3
Frozen Beauty: Books 1 - 3
The Faraday Cage {different writers, more like small anthology from voidships universe}
Elona (Patterner's Path Book 1) {different than the above, probably due a couple more installments too, more sci fi less steampunk than others}}
June 1, 2017
Sleuth
Striving for justice in a bigoted world. Racial interference in cultural stratification. All thwart law enforcement agencies in solving cases and bringing criminals to justice. Alice alone finds the culprits.
Striving for justice in a bigoted world. Racial interference in cultural stratification. All thwart law enforcement agencies in solving cases and bringing criminals to justice. Alice alone finds the culprits.
March 21, 2017
Kindle Unlimited, writer of several sets {sets ku, when sold separate may not be}. Serialized type would say and a bit steam punk and mystery adventure.
Maliha Anderson, Books 1-3
Harry Takes Off: Books 1 - 3
Frozen Beauty: Books 1 - 3
The Faraday Cage {different writers, more like small anthology from voidships universe}
Elona (Patterner's Path Book 1) {different than the above, probably due a couple more installments too, more sci fi less steampunk than others}}
Maliha Anderson, Books 1-3
Harry Takes Off: Books 1 - 3
Frozen Beauty: Books 1 - 3
The Faraday Cage {different writers, more like small anthology from voidships universe}
Elona (Patterner's Path Book 1) {different than the above, probably due a couple more installments too, more sci fi less steampunk than others}}
February 7, 2017
DNF - not my cuppa tea I am just not a fan is steampunk
April 7, 2017
Interesting and compelling stories. Murder mysteries with a steampunk twist, all set in the jewelled background of an Indian landscape. Beautifully written with a female lead who draws you into her world, and a supporting cast who bring life to what she encounters there, I truly loved this set of stories, and highly recommend them.
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