News Flash!
Kindling!
BVC member Steven Harper has released Trickster, the next
Silent Empire book, on Amazon’s Kindle. Booklist
calls it “fast, furious, and absorbing.” Price is $1.79. Check it out!
New BVC Member
C.L. Anderson joins BVC on August 25, 2009. To celebrate the release of Anderson’s Bitter Angels, BVC will hold a new Twitter fiction contest, August 25-27.
Brenda Clough’s Mystery Bookcase
This is a fine example of faux finishing. Can you count how
many fake surfaces and images there are on this piece of furniture?
Brenda Clough’s Boy in Uniform
Other mothers have children who get summer jobs being
lifeguards, or serving ice cream. In this photo it is 6:00 a.m. Brenda
Clough is standing on her front doorstep in a bathrobe and slippers. Beside her
is her son Simon, a college student and ROTC cadet. He is about to depart for
Fort Benning, Georgia, where he will spend three weeks being trained to leap
out of airplanes with a parachute courtesy of the US Army. Your tax dollar at
work, Americans!
Brenda Clough’s Very Short Reviews:
Premium Titles
New This Month:
Paths to Camelot
Sarah Zettel
Uncategorized
Sue Lange
(23 August 2009)
Coming in September:
Superluminal, the ebook
Vonda N. McIntyre
Buy the print edition at Basement Full of Books
Appearances
Bubonicon
Albuquerque, NM
28-30 August 2009
Valhallacon
Bellingham, WA
4-6 September 2009
In Print
Rosemary and Rue
Seanan McGuire
Updates from Phyllis Radford
Enigma by C.F. Bentley will appear
in hardcover August 4, 2009. Enigma is the sequel to Harmony, which will appear in mass market paperback at the
same time.
June 30, Phyllis turned in Forest Moon Rising; A Tess
Noncoire Adventure by P.R. Frost. The book is due for release from
DAW in June 2010.
RWA National Conference
Jennifer Stevenson and Pati Nagle attended the Romance
Writers of America’s National Conference at the Wardman Park Marriott in
Washington, D.C., in July. They saw a lot of the hotel (bar). Here’s
proof that Pati took in some important American history:
BookViewCafe.com to Publish Steampunk Anthology
The Book View Cafe authors will be combining creative forces to publish a collection of stories set in an unforgettable alternate world of steam-powered science, fantastic magic, and dark conspiracy. The Shadow Conspiracy is scheduled for release as an ebook in December 2009. Watch for news of our progress at our website or follow our Tweets.
Book View Cafe Admits its First Y Chromosome: Welcome Steven Piziks!
Interview by Sarah Zettel
You are an author of both science fiction and fantasy. Do you prefer one to the other?
Yes. When I’m writing science fiction, I prefer fantasy. When I’m writing
fantasy, I’m seized with an uncontrollable urge to write science fiction. Grass
is always greener, perversity of human nature, all that stuff. Two years ago, I
judged the Philip K. Dick Award, which is granted to the best science fiction
paperback published in a given year. In those twelve months, I read more
science fiction than most human beings read in a lifetime. For ages afterward,
I refused to have anything to do with SF, though I eventually came back to it.
You’ve also written a number of movie and TV tie-in books. What are the challenges presented by this kind of project?
The biggest challenge is finding something to write about. Finding a plot is
easy, but there’s character development. In any good novel, the main character
undergoes at least one major change, but you aren’t really allowed to do that
with TV characters. So you have to find a weakness that the show hasn’t
exploited properly, or you even extrapolate one by asking, say, why is Starbuck
in Battlestar Galactica so freaky about relationships and then answering
yourself.
Another problem is plugging plot holes. An absolute rule in adapting movie
scripts into novels is that you can add but you can’t subtract or change. But
movies, you may have noticed, often have plot holes. The writers and directors
count on the spectacle of the movie to sweep you past them. But readers go
slower. They have time to pause and think. They can say, “Wait! That’s not
right,” and back up to check something.
When I novelized the movie Identity, for example, the writers have two
characters driving away from Las Vegas. One drives toward Hollywood and the
other drives toward Florida. But both these characters end up at the same
fleabag motel. Once glance at a map will tell you this is impossible. One would
have driven south, the other west. Another character arrives at the motel with
a woman he’s just hit with his car. She needs medical attention, but the phones
are out and they can’t call an ambulance. Another character jumps into his car,
intending to drive to the nearest town to fetch an ambulance. So why doesn’t he
just take the injured woman with him? Oops.
I couldn’t remove these plot elements, or even change them, but I could explain
them, find ways to make them work. That was a challenge.
How do you think new technologies, such as the Kindle, are affecting reading and readers?
It’s too early to say how it’s affecting them at the moment because there are
still so few of them, relatively speaking. I think ultimately it’s going to
make libraries, both personal and public, more portable. We just need to find a
way to get e-readers into more hands. They’re too expensive and difficult to
get, like cell phones in the 80s.
I also think they’re also going to make finding good stuff both easier and more
difficult. It’ll be easier in that we’ll be able to track down individual
titles more quickly. It’ll be more difficult when we’re just browsing around
for something good to read. E-readers make self-publishing (or independent
publishing) so simple that anyone with a computer can put out a book. This is
good in that every book has a chance, but it’s bad because . . . well, the vast
majority of self-published stuff just isn’t very good, unfortunately. Makes it
harder to find the diamonds among the rocks.
And, of course, it’ll save wear and tear on our bodies. No more ten-pound books
to carry around! Moving? Instead of packing up boxes of books, you just grab
your e-reader. It’ll be lots easier to persuade friends to help you move when
you can say, “No, I don’t have a hundred boxes of books.”
Of course, that big plasma screen TV might still be a deal-breaker....
Science fiction is sometimes accused of writing about the past more than
about the future. What’s a major issue you feel is not being properly discussed
in current science fiction?
That’s a difficult question to answer. If I name an issue, there’s sure to be
someone out there who’ll link up four or five titles that have plenty to say
about that topic.
I think it’s correct that SF ultimately writes about the past. How can anyone
effectively write about the future when we haven’t seen it yet? Even so-called
cutting edge SF is dated a few years later, and sometimes before it even comes
out. So we write about the past while pretending to write about the future.
In my own books, I explore slavery, relationships, and building non-traditional
families. Ultimately, I realized I was writing about bits of my own life (well,
except for the slavery part), but hey — who doesn’t?
What is the most interesting (for good or bad) trend you’ve noticed in
fantasy literature recently?
Making villains into good guys. We have good-guy vampires, good-guy dragons,
good-guy zombies, even good-guy demons. Every one of these creatures was long a
monster, but we’re transforming them into misunderstood heroes. I’m not sure if
this is a good thing or not. We seem to be romanticizing death and evil. I’ve
never been a fan of the dark, broodin g boyfriend type. The dark, brooding
boyfriend is no fun to be around. He doesn’t want to talk, he says mean things,
and he acts the jerk. What ever happened to the bright, funny, nice guy? I’m
issuing a challenge to writers and readers to bring him back!
Seanan McGuire Joins BVC Roster
BookViewCafe.com launched urban fantasy author Seanan
McGuire this month. McGuire’s first novel, Rosemary and Rue, will be published by
DAW in September 2009. She currently offers two short stories, “Anthony’s Vampire”
and “Knives” at her bookshelf.
 Seanan McGuire was born in Martinez, California, and raised
in a wide variety of locations, most of which boasted some sort of dangerous
native wildlife. Despite her almost magnetic attraction to anything venomous,
she somehow managed to survive long enough to acquire a typewriter, a
reasonable grasp of the English language, and the desire to combine the two.
The fact that she wasn’t killed for using her typewriter at three o’clock in
the morning is probably more impressive than her lack of death by spider-bite.
 Often described as a vortex of the surreal, Seanan relates
personal anecdotes that end with things like “and then we got the anti-venom” or “but
it’s okay, because it turned out the water wasn’t all that deep.” She has yet
to be defeated in a game of “Who here was bitten by the strangest thing?,” and
can be amused for hours by just about anything. Just about anything includes
swamps, long walks, long walks in swamps, most of the things that live in
swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality television,
comic books, finding pennies on the street, and venomous reptiles. Seanan may
be the only person on the planet who admits to using Kenneth Muir’s Horror
Films of the 1980s as a checklist.
Seanan’s first novel, Rosemary and Rue, is coming from DAW
Books on September 1st, 200 9.
Best described as “a fairy tale noir sort of urban fantasy,”
it’s the first of three: A Local Habitation and An Artificial NightRavens in the
Library, Grants Pass, and are set to
follow at six-month intervals. Her short fiction has appeared in The Edge of Propinquity. She’s working on several
other books, just to make sure she never runs out of things to edit.
In her spare time, Seanan writes and records original music,
and has three CDs currently available: Pretty Little Dead Girl, Stars Fall
Home, and Red Roses and Dead Things. She is also a cartoonist, and draws an
irregularly posted autobiographical web comic, “With Friends Like These...”
Surprisingly enough, she finds time to take multi-hour walks, blog regularly,
watch a sickening amount of television, maintain her website, and go to pretty
much any movie that has the words “blood,” “night,” “terror,” or “attack” in
the title. Most people believe that she doesn’t sleep.
Seanan lives in a creaky old farmhouse in Northern
California, which she shares with two cats, Lilly (Siamese) and Alice (Maine
Coon), a vast collection of plush things and horror movies, and sufficient
books to officially qualify her as a fire hazard. She has strongly-held and
oft-expressed beliefs about the origins of the Black Death, the X-Men, and the
need for chainsaws in daily life.
Years of writing biographies for convention program books
have firmly fixed Seanan in the habit of writing them in the third person, so
as to sound marginally less dorky. Stress is on the “marginally.”
Seanan McGuire
Interviewed by Sarah Zettel
First of all, welcome to Book View Cafe, Seanan. What was
it that made you decide to join the Cafe?
Maya invited me, and this is my Christopher Walken year. I’m
doing anything I’m asked to do, within reason and the boundaries of my
available time.
You were a musician before you were a writer, what led
you to try book writing in addition to song writing?
This is entirely untrue. I became a musician because I
was a writer, and wanted to sing the songs that I was writing. I’ve been
writing since I was six years old, and first got hold of a typewriter; I wrote
my first (very, very bad) book when I was twelve.
Your first series is just coming out. These are tough
times to be breaking into writing. Had you been trying to get published for a
long time?
I had, but I wasn’t ready yet. That’s the thing. I needed
the years of struggling to improve before I could become good enough to
actually make it, and I think the best thing that’s happened to me as a writer
is that initial delay.
Tell us something about your new series.
I actually have two series starting up, one under my own
name, one as Mira Grant. The Toby Daye books are published by DAW Books, and
the first comes out September 1st; I couldn’t be more excited. They’re best described
as “fairy tale noir.” I studied folklore and fairy tales for years, and Toby
was the result. The world of Faerie is real, it’s here, and it’s not a pleasant place to get lost.
Toby is a changeling — half-human, half-fae — and a sworn
knight of Shadowed Hills. She’s also a private investigator, and basically
burnt out on anything that doesn’t involve being left the hell alone. There are
three books of her not being left the hell alone so far, and hopefully, there
will be a lot more after that.
My second series, the Newsflesh Trilogy (Feed, Blackout, Deadline)
will be coming out from Orbit starting in May 2010. They’re dystopian political
zombie horror thrillers, with a side-order of Hunter S. Thompson added, just
for spice.
How do you think your music and performance informs your
novel writing?
I... really don’t think it does. That’s like asking how my
cat informs my bookshelf, or how my machete informs my stuffed toys. They exist
in the same house, but they don’t really intersect very often.
 August Twitterfic Contest Scores High with Spiders and Space
Stations!
Honorable mentions:
Bob_Lock: @bookviewcafe High Commander Tarantula frowned upon entering the
space-station. “Guard!” He shouted and pointed. “Your flies are undone!”
Bob_Lock: @bookviewcafe As the spaceship docked the station crew waved their
tentacles in fear, “Argh!” spiders! We hate the eight-legged freaks!“
Second place (wins autographed paperback of Harmony by C.F. Bentley ):
TimeSlingers: @bookviewcafe He stares. As if I am a mere animal. But he
crash-landed on my planet. He is the alien. I will not eat him. His own fear
will.
First place (wins autographed hardcover of Enigma by C.F. Bentley):
ErrantKnave: @bookviewcafe Mr Kubrick? I know you want spider costumes, but
if we dress the boys as apes, we'll save cash for the rotating space
station.
Thank you to all the entrants! Once again, we had a webful of wonderful
entries.
BVC Goes to Camelot
This month, author Sarah Zettel has added her two outstanding
novels of romantic fantasy, For Camelot’s Honor and Under Camelot’s Banner, to
the Book View Cafe library. With these two books, Zettel’s entire Paths to
Camelot series becomes available online for the first time.
 Paths to Camelot follows the loves and adventures of four
brothers, all knights of the Round Table; heroic Sir Gawain, stoic Sir Geraint,
hot-tempered Squire Gareth and the cold, acerbic Sir Agravain.
All four books are available to registered members for reading free onlin at
www.bookviewcafe.com, or may be downloaded to any PDF-compatible reading device
for $4.99 per book.
Visit Sarah Zettel’s BVC Bookshelf.
BVC Blog News
Nancy Jane Moore
Here’s the secret to getting a blog read: Get Vonda N.
McIntyre to blog on writing Star Trek books!
Of the more than 400 entries in the Book View Cafe Blog since we started up in
November 2008, that post holds the record for most reads.
Not only did “Writing Star Trek Novels, or...” get about 2,000 views on the day it first
appeared, it still draws readers six months later. And there are 86 non-spam
comments about it.
 But while nothing else we’ve written about on the blog has
attracted quite as much attention, we’ve developed a steady blog readership,
with a number of regulars providing thought-provoking and amusing comments in
counterpoint to our posts.
Right now on the blog, you can find Maya Bohnhoff ’s series
of posts on writing Star Wars novels, Judith Tarr discussing horses,
Vonda N. McIntyre and Steven Harper Piziks giving advice on writing, and Brenda
Clough’s ongoing reviews of new comics, just to name a few.
New blog posts appear daily, with many of our writers
contributing blog material on the same day they have a featured story on Book
View Cafe. Sometimes we’re very topical — both Madeleine Robbins and I wrote
about the 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing last week — and sometimes we’re
funny. We write about the cons we attend, announce new books and new projects,
and comment on both science and science fiction.
Get to know your authors! Check out the BVC blog.
— Nancy Jane Moore
 Soap Update:
Textile Planet, by Sue Lange
Episode 20
Marla Gershe has
finally completed a whole data card in her exciting position in the data input
industry. The girls celebrate.
Episode 21
Meko has discovered Marla Gershe’s
secret identity. Will she rat Marla out?
“The Adventure of the Field Theorems ,” by Vonda N. McIntyre
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hires Mr Sherlock Holmes to investigate crop circles. Will Holmes discover the Martians, and will Dr Watson finally demonstrate to Holmes the usefulness of astronomy?
Updates from Sue Lange
The Farm
Pennsylvania now has a monsoon season. Trees are falling
like flies as waterlogged roots can no longer hold up even the sturdiest of
oaks . It’s hard to see from the picture but the tree that fell
had about a three-foot diameter trunk. Blueberries, squash, cukes, and peaches
are overproducing due to the excess of rainfall. Onions, too, are doing well in
spite of the mighty oak that laid itself to rest in the patch.
Women’s History Museum
Sue Lange will be reading “Art
& Science” and other biting satire for grownups at the opening of an
exhibit of her work in the Women’s History Museum (The GoggleWorks, Reading,
PA) on August 9. The exhibit will highlight her writing and work in the writing
community. It will be the first in a series on local writers curated by The
Berks County Commission for Women.
Sue Lange’s Prose Jam
Prose Jam featured Pennsylvania author T.K. Marion (Kill The Devil, East Wind,
Rain). The show included clips from the Berks Literacy Council fundraiser
and the “Name that Book” contest.
Prose Jam airs live on Comcast channel 13 in
Reading, PA, and can be found on line at BCTV.com.
 Uncategorized
Sue Lange will be releasing her collection of
her published short stories as a BookViewCafe.com exclusive ebook, edited by
BVC member Vonda N. McIntyre. The collection, Uncategorizable, appears this month as premium BVC content.
 The Human Genre Project
Two Book View Cafe authors, Alma Alexander and Nancy Jane
Moore, have contributed stories to the Human Genre Project,
a collection of short poems, stories, and essays related to genes and genomics
sponsored by a research forum at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The Human Genre Project is edited by Scottish SF author Ken
MacLeod, who is currently a writer-in-residence at the Economic and Social
Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum. Ken says the series of
stories was inspired by Michael Swanwick’s series of stories, the Periodic
Table of Science Fiction
.
Alma Alexander’s story is “The Code of Forgetting” on
Chromosome 14 and Nancy Jane
Moore’s is “The Wrong Butterfly” on the Y Chromosome.
The Human Genre Project is still seeking contributions.
Phyllis Irene Radford Honored with Lifetime Achievement
Award
Willamette Writers honored Phyllis
Irene Radford with a Lifetime Achievement award during their 44th Annual
Conference August 7-9, 2009, at the Portland (Oregon) Airport Sheraton Hotel.
The Event
Last Saturday evening the Willamette Writers honored me with
a lifetime achievement award. I was stunned when I got the news several weeks
before. Willamette Writers is one of the largest regional writers
organizations with 1700 members and 4 daughter chapters throughout Oregon.
Over 800 writers, published and aspiring attended their 40th annual
conference.
You can find more information at www.willamettewriters.com.
My dear friend Lizzy Shannon introduced me.
The Willamette Writers lifetime achievement award is
given annually to a Pacific Northwest author, and tonight it is both an honor
and a privilege to be able to introduce you to a local role model of note, and
a lady of distinction.
We actually ran into a bit of bother with this year’s
award, because as the lady writes under three different names (that we know of)
we weren’t certain which of her personalities to give the award to. But only
one of them is a registered Oregon voter. Irene Radford has distinguished
herself as a world class science fiction and fantasy author. Her highly
successful Dragon Nimbus series is available in many languages all over the
globe. Even in unexpected places such as rough-and-tumble Irish guest houses
in the remote Mourne Mountains. When visiting my family in Ireland recently,
the local publican, usually a dour, sullen man, became effusive with glee when
he found out I knew Irene. He showed me where he kept all of her books, well
thumbed and very grubby, but obviously well loved. I am charged with the task
of purloining Irene’s signed photo for him to hang in the bar.
When I first met this unassuming, quiet lady at a science
fiction convention almost 10 years ago, I was dressed as a Klingon, and she
resembled one of the fragile faery folk from one of her stories. Afraid I
might break her, I reined in my clumsy enthusiasm enough to share with her my
hope to be published some day. As she has done with so many would-be authors,
she listened carefully, took me seriously (despite my extremely odd appearance)
and has encouraged and mentored me every step of the way. She is always
generous with advice and help, sharing her wealth of knowledge by talking on
panels at conventions, hosting writing retreats where she has an interesting
mix of seasoned and unpublished authors, and teaching workshops at our very own
Willamette Writers meetings in the Old Church in downtown Portland.
Tonight it is my absolute pleasure both as a friend and
as a board member, to invite Phyllis Irene Radford up here to accept the
Willamette Writers Lifetime Achievement Award.
I was so touched I could barely read the text of my own
speech through my tears. I did remember to thank the board and all the members
for the honor.
The award is stunning and elegant. It nearly left me
speechless. Now when had anyone in that room ever expected to hear those words
from me. Fortunately I made notes.
August 8, 2009
Let me tell you a story:
How many times has that phrase been used? Since time out of
mind, humankind has told stories to make a point, demonstrate a moral, teach a
lesson, or just to entertain. Stories around a campfire in the Olduvai Gorge or
after a grand hunt in the Lascaux Caves, or a Coventry morality play draw upon
group history and culture to convey subtle nuances and jokes that the audience
can appreciate.
Many today say that the myths and legends of ages past are obsolete. Those common references are meaningless in our polyglot, multi ethnic, dilute society. Ursula K. Le Guin talks about this a bit in her collection of essays Language
of the Night. Excellent book by the way.
I collect books about folklore, myth and legend. I’m learning
to appreciate these subtle nuances in Pacific Northwest native lore. I know
enough about Celtic culture to find some hidden puns in the names given to
fantastic creatures. Even some of the Russian tales speak to me — I got snowed
in twice last winter and appreciate the endless lessons on how to survive the
cold. But Arabian, Chinese, and African lore kind of go over my head. There are
universal truths buried in there, but I have to dig deep to find them beneath
recipes for cooking obscure roots and dialogue with gods I’ve never heard of.
Just a quick aside, almost every culture on earth has a
variation of the Cinderella story. Only the versions before the German Catholic
Church edited the Brothers Grimm, tell the story of a girl who is abused by her
own father and runs away to serve in another household rather than be a
princess in her own.
We have Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyon, Johnny Appleseed, and John
Henry in this country. Newer myths based on local legends. And let’s not
forget George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. All
have legends surrounding them that we love to expand. Has anyone read the
series of mysteries with Ben Franklin as the detective? Did George Washington
really chop down that cherry tree?
It’s these universal truths that make a story important and
memorable. (I’m going to use film references here because more people have seen
the same movies than have read the same books) We’re a literate group of
writers. So I bet a higher percentage of you have read Malory’s Le Morte
d’Arthur than the average person you encounter at the coffee shop. But I
bet nearly all of the people in the coffee shop have seen or know about Star
Wars. I’m talking about the original trilogy — episodes 4, 5, & 6 in the
current lexicon — Those episodes contain more than a few echoes of King Arthur
and the Knights of the Round Table. You have the sword, you have the
magical mentor, you have the evil overlord and vast hordes of invaders held off
by a scrappy few freedom fighters. You even have the secret child who rises to
glory and hints of a love affair with the fair princess who is in truth the
hero’s sister, unknown to both at the time.
Same story. Same moral tales. Different cultural references.
May the Force be with you.
How about Bridget Jones Diary? Pride and Prejudice
updated. The movie Clueless is a rewrite of Jane Austen’s Emma. In fact
on my copy of the DVD of the Gweneth Paltrow version, the blurb reads: If
you’re a fan of Clueless you’ll love Emma.
Shakespeare is so universal we don’t even need to change the
language much, just the setting and the background music to make it memorable
and universal. West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet set to music —
and yes armed gangs, usually wearing the colored livery for one lord or another
— were as common in Elizabethan England as they are in the streets of NY today.
How many retellings of Beauty and the Beast do we need to
understand that sometimes beautiful people are ugly inside and some ugly people
have beautiful souls?
Gold digging, greedy step parents are still cheating Snow
White out of substantial inheritances. We see that story weekly on various TV
mystery series.
The story is the same, the delivery is different.
Writers of today — meaning all of us in this room tonight —
are creating a new mythology out of the old.
So let me tell you about a little girl who taught herself to
read before kindergarten so that she wouldn’t have to waste time in school
before learning to write. She desperately needed to write down her own
stories. She put herself to sleep every night living those stories in her
imagination and continuing them night after night, sometimes for years. That
little girl grew up to write her stories in secret because her parents and teachers
almost convinced her that she was going to fail at being a full time writer so
why bother trying? Better to get a real job and earn real money.
Those same parents and teachers wouldn’t allow her to read
comics or science fiction and fantasy books because their only contact with the
genre was the horrible B grade Godzilla movies of the 1950’s. She needed to
read real books.
Guess what? That little girl is me, and my 20th
SF/F book came out this week and you have given me a lifetime achievement
award. I fell into SF/F because it’s the proper medium for me to tell my
stories. You can believe that I did it just to prove my elders wrong if you
want. And yes I have my own version of the Arthurian Legends out there.
It is after all, about the story. That’s why we write,
whether it’s fiction, or memoir, or screenplays, biography, or essay. We have a
story to tell. We have modern myths to bring to our audience. We have
folklore to create.
Just to finish this off, there’s a tag line wandering around
the internet attributed to me, and yes I said it. “We all get rejections. So
cry, complain, throw things. Then apply butt to chair and hands to keyboard and
get back to work.”
At that point the applause told me to quit while I was
ahead, leaving off the final paragraph. I’ll let you see it though.
That philosophy has sustained me through 20 books and 20+
short stories in print and contracts for more. All since 1994, that’s only 15
years. My work is never done and I don’t intend to stop telling stories until
the coroner surgically removes me from my computer and hauls me out in a body
bag. l figure that gives me another 25 years of work at least so can I get this
award again?
— Phyllis Irene Radford
Aka Irene Radford
Aka P.R. Frost
Aka C.F. Bentley
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