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	<title>The Clarion Workshop at UCSD</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on the Clarion Science Fiction &#38; Fantasy Writers' Workshop</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Terrific Nalo Hopkinson interview&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/13/terrific-nalo-hopkinson-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a marvelous interview with 2008 Clarion teacher Nalo Hopkinson in the Sunday Books section of Halifax, Nova Scotia&#8217;s ChronicleHerald.  The interview, which took place at April&#8217;s Halifax International Writers Festival, focuses both on Nalo&#8217;s career and her 2007 novel, The New Moon’s Arms, a work it says &#8220;shimmers with light and radiates with heat, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Narnia event on May 13&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/09/planet-narnia-event-on-may-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Michael Ward, Anglican clergyman, writer, and speaker and, until recently, Chaplain of Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge, will speak about his new book, Planet Narnia, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13, at UCSD&#8217;s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.   Ward&#8217;s thesis, as described in the event announcement:
The Chronicles of Narnia are beloved the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught in &#8220;technological Palookaville&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/08/caught-in-technological-palookaville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pardon me for coming late to this party, but an April 14 Washington Post opinion piece that continues to be reprinted in other papers is worth checking out.  It&#8217;s &#8220;The Future Is Now,&#8221; by Joel Achenbach, about the speed at which technological change is reshaping our lives:
Science and technology form a two-headed, unstoppable change agent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movement in virtual reality spaces&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/07/movement-in-virtual-reality-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Second Life-focused blog Not Possible IRL had an interesting post on UCSD&#8217;s Sheldon Brown, Director of our Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, and his ongoing project, the Scalable City.  The post, &#8220;Using game technology to explore the &#8220;unreality&#8221; of virtual landscapes,&#8221; includes a link to the trailer on Youtube [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray Bradbury et al. at Eaton SF conference&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/06/ray-bradbury-et-al-at-eaton-sf-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned a month or so ago, UC Riverside&#8217;s Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Utopian Literature (which has a cool new web site, by the way) will host its periodic Eaton Science Fiction Conference, this year titled &#8216;Chronicling Mars,&#8217; May 16-18.  Today&#8217;s San Bernardino-based Press-Enterprise has an story and interview with the conference&#8217;s keynote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the right model for your characters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/04/finding-the-right-model-for-your-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 18:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Make This Stuff Up&#8221; file, a Reuters story out of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, summarizing the slow diminishment of the cult status of Turkmenbashi, &#8216;Father of All Turkmens,&#8217; the nation&#8217;s dead former dictator: 
A rotating gold statue of Turkmenistan&#8217;s former leader is to be removed from the centre of the capital, state media said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curiouser and curiouser&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/05/02/curiouser-and-curiouser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 06:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With thanks to the glorious Mr. Lewis Carroll, and in recognition perhaps of a renaissance in Carroll-ish strands within literary science fiction and fantasy, I point tonight to the marvelous blog post at the UK&#8217;s Guardian books site by 2008 Clarionite Damien G. Walter.  Damien, along with classmate Emily Jiang, is a respondent to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts for this year&#8217;s Clarion students&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/04/30/thoughts-for-this-years-clarion-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the 2008 Workshop, I thought it might be helpful to troll for perspectives on the value of the Clarion experience, and how to think of it.  Two particularly interesting perspectives come from alumni Nicola Griffith and Richard Paul Russo.  They parallel each other, with Nicola providing the short version and Richard a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bits and pieces from the Nebula Awards&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/04/29/bits-and-pieces-from-the-nebula-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few items of interest from the 2007 Nebula Awards:

Nebula Award winners with Clarion links include Karen Joy Fowler, president of the Clarion Foundation and author of Wit&#8217;s End, for her short story, &#8220;Always&#8221;; and alum Ted Chiang, for his novelette, The Merchant and the Alchemist&#8217;s Gate.  Two out of five isn&#8217;t bad, I guess.
Another contribution to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further thoughts on diasporas &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ucsd.edu/clarion/2008/04/24/further-thoughts-on-diasporas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent Race in Space post included a brief discussion of diasporas, a topic that science fiction and fantasy deal with in tremendously interesting ways.  I subsequently came across an article by Michael Fullilove of Australia&#8217;s Lowy Institute for International Policy reminding me of the broader implications of diaspora populations and their increasing importance in a globalized [...]]]></description>
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