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February 28, 2023

The lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip was born 75 years ago

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Patricia A. McKillip at Westercon 64 in the Fairmont San Jose Hotel on Saturday 2 July 2011 (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons)

Known for her lush imagery and compelling characters, Patricia A. McKillip wrote over 25 novels including the award-winning THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD (1974; World Fantasy), Harpist in the Wind (1979; LOCUS), Something Rich and Strange (1994; Mythopoeic), Ombria in Shadow (2002; World Fantasy and Mythopoeic), Solstice Wood (2006; Mythopoeic), and Kingfisher (2016; Mythopoeic). Her collection DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES (2016) was honored with an Endeavor Award. In 2008, she received the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Among McKillip’s other prominent novels were The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), The Changeling Sea (1988), The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995 and coming out in a new edition in February 2024 from Tachyon), Winter Rose (1996), Song for the Basilisk (1988), Alphabet of Thorn (2004), Od Magic (2005), The Bell at Sealey Head (2008), and The Bards of Bone Plain (2010). Her numerous short stories have been collected in several volumes including The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (1984), Harrowing the Dragon (2005), WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD (2012), and DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES. The story “The Unicorn Triangle” was published alongside “My Son Heydari and the Karkadann” by Peter S. Beagle in the limited edition chapbook THE KARKADANN TRIANGLE (2018).

The beloved Pat is missed by all who knew her.

February 28, 2022

Happy birthday to the lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip

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Known for her lush imagery and compelling characters, Patricia A. McKillip has written over 25 novels including the award-winning THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD (1974; World Fantasy), Harpist inthe Wind (1979; LOCUS), Something Rich and Strange (1994; Mythopoeic), Ombria in Shadow (2002; World Fantasy and Mythopoeic), Solstice Wood (2006; Mythopoeic), and Kingfisher (2016; Mythopoeic). Her collection DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES (2016) was honored with an Endeavor Award. In 2008, she received the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Among McKillip’s other prominent novels are The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), The Changeling Sea (1988), The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995), Winter Rose (1996), Song for the Basilisk (1988), Alphabet of Thorn (2004), Od Magic (2005), The Bell at Sealey Head (2008), and The Bards of Bone Plain (2010). Her numerous short stories have been collected in several volumes including The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (1984), Harrowing the Dragon (2005), WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD (2012), and DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES. The story “The Unicorn Triangle” was published alongside “My Son Heydari and the Karkadann” by Peter S. Beagle in the limited edition chapbook THE KARKADANN TRIANGLE (2018).

All of us at Tachyon wish the marvelous Pat a happy birthday. May it be a magical one.

February 28, 2021

Happy birthday to the lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip

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All of us at Tachyon wish the marvelous Pat a happy birthday. May it be a magical one.

July 21, 2020

Celebrate Tachyon’s 25th anniversary with the lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip

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Photo by Stephen Gold (Wikimedia Commons)

“I can’t believe that Tachyon Publications is only 25 years old! I feel I’ve known Jacob Weisman far longer than that, first as an earnest, thoughtful figure full of ideas I’d never considered, more recently as a publisher ( ‘You want to do what with my old stories?’) and now as a solidly dependable figure in a rapidly changing world, who published a collection of my early stories—“Wonders of the Invisible World”—in a package not only lovely to the eye, but oddly pleasing just to hold. With much gratitude to all the dedicated and enthusiastic people who are part of Tachyon Publications, I wish you Happy 25^th—and Many More!”
– Patricia McKillip

April 17, 2020

Tachyon tidbits featuring Kameron Hurley, Lisa Goldstein, Daniel Pinkwater, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia A. McKillip, and Nalo Hopkinson

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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi won the 2019 OTHERWISE AWARD with Kameron Hurley’s MEET ME IN THE FUTURE included among the Honor List.

The full HONOR LIST:

Kylie Ariel Bemis, “Dreamborn” (in Maiden, Mother, Crone, edited by Gwen Benaway, Bedside Press 2019)
Meg Elison, The Book of Flora (47North 2019)
Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Make Me a World 2019)
Kameron Hurley, Meet Me in the Future (Tachyon Publications 2019)
Innocent Chizaram Ilo, “Of Warps and Wefts” (Strange Horizons, March 2018; reprinted in Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, edited by Bogi Tackás, Lethe Press 2019)
Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars (Tor Books 2018)
Laurie J. Marks, The Elemental Logic series (Fire Logic, Earth Logic, Water Logic, and Air Logic, Small Beer 2019)
Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder (Soft Skull Press 2018)
Rivers Solomon, The Deep (Gallery / Saga Press 2019)

Congratulations to all.

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KEN AND ROBIN TALK ABOUT STUFF recommends Lisa Goldstein’s IVORY APPLES.

Adolescent Ivy’s great-aunt Maeve wrote the beloved novel IVORY APPLES with the help of the muses — supernatural beings that enter Ivy’s life and bring desperate, dangerous occult seekers there as well. Goldstein veils female bildungsroman with imagination and myth in another assured modern fantasy reminiscent of her excellent 2011 modern fairy tale THE UNCERTAIN PLACES.

Cory Doctorow on PLURALISTIC is very excited about Daniel Pinkwater’s forthcoming ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL.

IOW: this is a book with every single thing I love about Pinkwater novels. Reading Daniel Pinkwater – as a kid and as an adult – was hugely important to my development as a writer and a human being. Meeting another Pinkwater fan is always a sign that you are among good people.

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February 29, 2020

Happy birthday to the lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip

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All of us at Tachyon wish the marvelous Pat a happy birthday. May it be a magical one.

February 28, 2019

Happy birthday to the lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip

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Patricia A. McKillip at Westercon 64 in the Fairmont San Jose Hotel on Saturday 2 July 2011 (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons)

Known for her lush imagery and compelling characters, Patricia A. McKillip has written over 25 novels including the award-winning THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD (1974; World Fantasy), Harpist in the Wind (1979; LOCUS), Something Rich and Strange (1994; Mythopoeic), Ombria in Shadow (2002; World Fantasy and Mythopoeic), Solstice Wood (2006; Mythopoeic), and Kingfisher (2016; Mythopoeic). Her collection DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES (2016) was honored with an Endeavor Award. In 2008, she received the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Among McKillip’s other prominent novels are The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), The Changeling Sea (1988), The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995), Winter Rose (1996), Song for the Basilisk (1988), Alphabet of Thorn (2004), Od Magic (2005), The Bell at Sealey Head (2008), and The Bards of Bone Plain (2010). Her numerous short stories have been collected in several volumes including The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (1984), Harrowing the Dragon (2005), WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD (2012), and DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES.

All of us at Tachyon wish the marvelous Pat a happy birthday. May it be a magical one.

For more info about THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, visit the Tachyon page.

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For more info on WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, visit the Tachyon page.

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May 25, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Nancy Springer, Patricia A. McKillip, James Morrow, and Nalo Hopkinson

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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Nancy Springer (photo: Lyla Ellzey), Patricia A. McKillip (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons), James Morrow, and Nalo Hopkinson (David Findlay)

MYLIFEMYBOOKSMYESCAPE interviews Nancy Springer.

DJ: What is THE ODDLING PRINCE about?

Nancy: Two heroes and the bond between them, which should surprise none of my longtime readers, because just this sort of thing has been a frequent theme in my writing. Why? Because vivid, compelling, almost frightening daydreams along those lines have obsessed me most of my life since I was fifteen. The first fantasies I wrote, which were also my first novels, always had two noble heroes, faithful comrades, one dark, moody, poetic and visionary, the other sunny and prosaic, gallant and steadfast. In hindsight, I can see I was working out profound psychological problems — but interestingly, the compulsion to fantasize ceased sometime after I met my second husband, the love of my life. Still, a good while later, I wrote THE ODDLING PRINCE because of one last daydream I’d kept in memory, a tale of a seemingly ordinary prince and his oddling double. This time, however, neither of my heroes is dark and moody. Devoted to each other, both are tall and fair-haired, looking nearly as alike as twins. This time the grim, stormy element comes from someone with authority over them, the king. The result is a fraught triangle of turbulent loyalties. This book is about a love worthy of legend, valor in battle, fealty threatened by jealousy and suspicion, a seemingly doomed quest for the sake of brotherhood, and the dangers come in so many forms…forgive me for being so vague. I don’t want to let go a spoiler.

DJ: What were some of your influences for THE ODDLING PRINCE?

Nancy: The root influence for all of my fantasy novels goes back fifty years, to my college days: the early poetry of William Butler Yeats. After falling in love heart and soul with his very Irish vision (my father was an Irish immigrant), over the next decade or two I read cartloads of original material and research in Celtic culture and mythology. As for more recent influences, no, there are none that I can think of.

Terence Toh on BORNEO EXPAT WRITER interviews Malaysian authors, publishers and readers discuss the long and short of short story collections.

As it turns out, Malaysians are also fond of short story anthologies. Some readers, however feel that anthologies often get the short end of the stick compared to longer works.

“I do think short story collections are generally less celebrated and less effort is put into marketing them. I think they are unfairly dismissed as a gateway medium for novice writers. There’s a certain privileging of the novel format as the ultimate medium of literature,” says avid reader Diana Yeong, 43.

Yeong says while she doesn’t actively seek out short story collections, she doesn’t shy away from them either. Some of her favourite collections included Patricia McKillip’s DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES (2016), Ted Chiang’s Stories Of Your Life And Others (2010) and Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories (2011). “Collections can be hit and miss and more often than not will have at least a couple that miss the mark, and only one or two in the entire collection that have that ‘wow’ factor,” Yeong says.

“There’s an element of delicious surprise going into each story, which is a nice contrast with the immersive nature of novel reading. I like diving deep into characters and places and situations with novels, but short stories are a refreshing change of pace.”

THE FRANKENSTEIN MEME asks James Morrow 10 questions about his novel, The Philosopher’s Apprentice, and its relationship to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

The “Frankenstein and Your Work” question: What impact has Frankenstein had on your writing? Are there aspects of the novel that have especially influenced you in general?

When in a strictly intellectual mode, I can tease my original adolescent (in both senses of the term) reading of the novel apart from the numerous cinematic Frankensteins that have emerged over the years from Hollywood’s Universal Pictures and Britain’s Hammer Films. But at the emotional level, I can’t sustain that dichotomy. I love—and in many cases also respect—the celluloid incarnations of Shelley’s brainchild. Indeed, I used the writing of The Philosopher’s Apprentice as an excuse to revisit several dozen movies that trace (sometimes overtly, sometimes obliquely) to the original novel.

Fun fact: although the Universal Frankenstein films are drenched in Expressionist shadows and faux-Gothic, Mittle-European atmosphere, they’re actually all set in the twentieth century, with telephones, automobiles, and public lighting appearing routinely. Not until the Hammer revolution (beginning with The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957) was Shelley’s vision accorded an appropriate period setting.

As a film buff, I don’t necessarily put a premium on fidelity to literary sources. The three-hour Mark Kruger-directed Frankenstein starring Alec Newman, Luke Goss, and William Hurt (spun from a TV miniseries) is intensely faithful to the book, but it’s also a boring movie. Give me James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein or Terence Fisher’s The Revenge of Frankenstein any time!

To answer your question, beyond The Philosopher’s Apprentice, many of my short stories owe something to the Frankenstein meme, especially “The Wisdom of the Skin” (a Shelley-inspired resurrection story), “Spinoza’s Golem” (the title says it all), “The Iron Shroud” (another Golem yarn), “Lady Witherspoon’s Solution” (steampunk feminism keyed to chemically induced devolution), BIGFOOT AND THE BODHISATTVA (about the Yeti’s formal education in Tibetan Buddhism), and my stand-alone novella, THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI.

LEVAR BURTON READS LIVE! in Los Angeles: “Money Tree” by Nalo Hopkinson.

A young man sets out to uncover sunken treasure and make his fortune, and his sister must pick up the pieces. Recorded on the LeVar Burton Reads LIVE! tour. With accompaniment by vibraphonist Justin Thomas, and featuring a conversation with the author. This story appears in Nalo Hopkinson’s collection SKIN FOLK.

For more info on THE ODDLING PRINCE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Brian Giberson

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info on THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

For more info on BIGFOOT AND THE BODHISATTVA, visit the Tachyon page.

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Design by Elizabeth Story

February 28, 2018

Happy birthday to the lyrical, World Fantasy winner Patricia A. McKillip

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Patricia A. McKillip at Westercon 64 in the Fairmont San Jose Hotel on Saturday 2 July 2011 (Stephen Gold/Wikimedia Commons)

Known for her lush
imagery and compelling characters, Patricia A. McKillip has written
over 25 novels including the award-winning THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF
ELD (World Fantasy), Harpist in the
Wind (LOCUS), Something Rich and Strange
(Mythopoeic), Ombria in Shadow (World Fantasy
and Mythopoeic), and Solstice Wood (Mythopoeic). In 2008, she
received the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Lifetime
Achievement.

Among McKillip’s
other prominent novels are The Riddle-Master of Hed,
The Changeling Sea, The Book of Atrix Wolfe,
Winter Rose, Song for the
Basilisk, Alphabet of Thorn, Od Magic,
The Bell at Sealey Head, The Bards of
Bone Plain, and Kingfisher. Her numerous short stories
have been collected in several volumes including The Throme of
the Erril of Sherill, Harrowing
the Dragon, WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, and
DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES.

All of us at Tachyon wish the marvelous Pat a happy birthday. May it be a magical one.

For more info about THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info on WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

For more info on DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Thomas Canty

November 27, 2017

Get a quartet of acclaimed, award-winning Tachyon titles for $1.99 each

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As part of their Cyber Monday Gold Box promotion (11/27), Amazon is offering Peter S. Beagle’s bewitching IN CALABRIA, Daryl Gregory’s sublime WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE, Patricia A. McKillip’s enchanting DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES, and Lavie Tidhar’s fascinating CENTRAL STATION for $1.99 each.

For today only, the each ebook is available for just $1.99!

IN CALABRIA

by Peter S. Beagle

A Top 10 Publishers Weekly Spring 2017 Featured Title
A Kirkus February’s Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Title
A Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Pick: Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

From the acclaimed author of THE LAST UNICORN comes a new, exquisitely-told fable for the modern age.

Beagle’s kindly fable shows how a man who seems to have nothing can really have everything—with just a touch of magic.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy’s scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry to the company of others. But one chilly morning, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he must stave off inquisitive onlookers, invasive media, and even more sinister influences.

“A novella about love in a world of hardship, loss, magic, and recovery. Beagle’s unicorns have never been more bewitching, impossible, and genuine. I cherished every page.”
—Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice

Lyrical, gripping, and wise, In Calabria confirms Peter S. Beagle’s continuing legacy as one of fantasy’s most legendary authors.

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE

by Daryl Gregory

World Fantasy Award Winner
Shirley Jackson Award Winner
Nebula Award Nominee
Locus Award Nominee
Theodore Sturgeon Award Nominee
BookRiot 100 MUST-READ INDIE PRESS BOOKS
Selected as the Horror After Dark Top Horror Read for 2014

“Daryl Gregory’s We Are All Completely Fine is bitchin’ fun and as wicked and strange as a motorcycle leap through a ring of fire without your pants on. Loved it.”
—Joe R. Lansdale, author of Cold in July and the Hap and Leonard series

Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now he’s in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering arsonist. Martin never takes off his sunglasses. Never. No one believes the extent of their horrific tales, not until they are sought out by psychotherapist Dr. Jan Sayer. What happens when these seemingly-insane outcasts form a support group? Together they must discover which monsters they face are within—and which are lurking in plain sight.

“[STARRED REVIEW] This complex novel—scathingly funny, horrific yet oddly inspiring—constructs a seductive puzzle from torn identities, focusing on both the value and peril of fear. When enigmatic Dr. Jan Sayer gathers survivors of supernatural violence for therapy, she unwittingly unlocks evil from the prison of consciousness. Harrison, a cynical monster-hunter, wallows in lethargy. Suicidal Barbara burns to read the secret messages inscribed on her bones. Cantankerous Stan is the lone survivor of a cannibal feast. After paranoid Martin sees slithery spirits lingering around volatile Greta, a powerful young woman decorated with mystically charged scars, ancient evils usher the rag-tag survivors to a battle with the Hidden Ones, exiled deities trapped in prisons of flesh. Gregory’s beautiful imagery and metaphors bring bittersweet intimacy and tenderness to the primal wonder of star-lit legends. Isolated people, both victims and victimizers, are ghosts in a waking world, blind to their encounters with living nightmares. Blending the stark realism of pain and isolation with the liberating force of the fantastic, Gregory (Afterparty) makes it easy to believe that the world is an illusion, behind which lurks an alternative truth—dark, degenerate, and sublime.”
—Publishers Weekly

DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES

by Patricia A. McKillip

2017 Endeavor Award winner
An Overdrive Recommended Book
2016 Locus Recommended Reading List
A Barnes & Noble Blog Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Collections and Anthologies of 2016

Featuring three brand-new stories and an original introduction by Peter S. Beagle, author of THE LAST UNICORN.

Fans of exquisite prose and ethereal fantasy will need to own this.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Bestselling author Patricia A. McKillip (THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD) is one of the most lyrical writers gracing the fantasy genre. With the debut of her newest work, DREAMS OF DISTANT SHORES is a true ode to her many talents. Within these pages you will find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate.

McKillip (WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD) once more enchants with this volume, which fantasy readers will devour as they are transported into multiple realities.”
—Library Journal

Fans of McKillip’s ethereal fiction will find much to delight them; those lucky enough to be discovering her work will find much to enchant them.

CENTRAL STATION

by Lavie Tidhar

2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner
2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shortlist
2016 British Science Fiction Award, Longlist

NPR Best Books of 2016
Amazon Featured Monthly Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016
2016 Locus Recommended Reading List

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.

[STAR] “World Fantasy Award–winner Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming) magnificently blends literary and speculative elements in this streetwise mosaic novel set under the towering titular spaceport.“
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.

[STAR] “… a fascinating future glimpsed through the lens of a tight-knit community. Verdict: Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming; The Violent Century) changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.”
—Library Journal, starred review

Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.

At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive … and even evolve.

For more info about IN CALABRIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For info on WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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