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===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Europe – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension by Victor Dixen]]===
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Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[Ascension by Victor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio]]===
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Hadrian Marlowe sits in the distant future writing the true account of his life to add context to a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that way. We are millennia in the future, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions of a vast empire. Hadrian Marlowe is set to inherit one of the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path instead. [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically to everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be next. In such a circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]===
Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the game. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]]
<br!-- Doescher -->{{newreview|author=Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings-|titlestyle=Zenith "width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=3[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|genre=Teensleft|summarylink=The Bloody Baroness is the captain of the starship Maurader, and she and her all-female crew wreak havoc wherever they go across the galaxyhttps://www.amazon. On board, however, the bloody baroness is just Andi, the misfit crew's friend and protectorco. One day they are captured, something that just never happens to them, and they find themselves facing up to their past lives, that they have been trying so hard to run away from. Will they be able to face not just their fears but their own personal demons, as they are blackmailed into an impossible rescue mission?uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008228337</amazonuk>==[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===}}[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Chris Brookmyre|title=Places in the Darkness|rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|genre=Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary= Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic UtopiaHumour]] A long time ago, in a world of free thinking and no major crime. 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On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screensjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVin a world of free thinking and no major crime. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of privacy humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the increasing machination of society are all headline material in todaysame old problems. You can's news. It is as if half t really have a century after their inceptionUtopia with people in it, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality.can you? [[Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk!-- Curtis -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=George Mann"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Ghosts of Empire[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|rating=4left|genrelink=Science Fiction|summary=Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best of us and a holiday may be neededhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress youjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], but London [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of themonly a handful of animals living below the waves. SurelyWe follow Nerissa Crane, a nice visit to Englandvet, as she remembers recent events, far from looks after the hustle animals and bustle falls into a world of the Big Apple, will help you to relaxintrigue. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring start but I will try to raise avoid the sleeping power of Albion from its slumbermain ones. 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You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'=[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]=== | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but here at last we get they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-waysDick-inspired cult classic to-before droids anewreviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in Channel 4 has adapted the family til it hurtsauthor's short stories for TV. And if you need further encouragementStartlingly, donDick't forget s current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his audience only demanded three parts topics from intrusive advertising and loss of Henry VI – here the series privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is so popular weas if half a century after their inception, Dick're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…s electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=James Goss and Russell T Davies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|titleleft|link=Doctor Whohttps: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4//www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summaryUTF8&tag=Consider the thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor. Just how many birthday Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], say[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the life of a Time Lord Doctor. Just how many birthday and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would Christmas gifts must he have itto hand out each year, were he has the space to keep in touch with even half of his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorrycompanions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and get himself readyenemies. And if you're working on a shorter timescaleAs luck would have it, with a shorter lifespanhe has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well so my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Weir|title= Artemis|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to Artemis, the first city to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in shorter timescale, with a lifetime trip for earth touristsshorter lifespan, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is thinking perhaps just one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishingsame. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuseRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Mann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mann_Ghosts.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to doco.|amazonukuk/dp/1783294183/ref=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Wes Stuart"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= My Name is Sam|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion [[Ghosts of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in this storyEmpire by George Mann]]=== [[image:4star. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet best of us and everyone on ita holiday may be needed. This is If you are from New York there are not his choice however: many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but London is one of them. Surely, a nice visit to England, far from the decision hustle and bustle of the alien SereiaBig Apple, his mentors and guides, as he is forced will help you to confront this hazardous taskrelax. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but It is not as if Russian Tsarists are too weak to challenge on the Gibbus themselvesloose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…Is it? 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Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywherejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Welcome to Artemis, since the robot uprising that devastated first city on the planetmoon. Now two huge mainframes compete A powerhouse for world domination: CISSUS the rich and VIRGIL. They capture robots a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into also a place a hive consciousnesssmall community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. The few remaining bots are called 'freebotsShe came to Artemis with her father aged six,it' and inhabit a desert called s the Sea of Rustonly place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, where they do what they can the phrase most often used to survivedescribe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul McAuley|title= Austral|rating= 3using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth wasHowever, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this end, as she puts it, ''has set up a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection side business of sperm into an eggillegal smuggling activity. I was customised by a suite When one of targeted genes…Jazz'' She wass regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Huskyjust too tempting to refuse. A human modified What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continentdo. Those temperatures are still hard for un[[Artemis by Andy Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart -->|-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stuart_Name.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1540504506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Hunted|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary[[My Name is Sam by Wes Stuart]]=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt== [[image:4star. Adopted into a Bushman family and jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Who is the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst real enemy? This is the young men and womenquestion which confronts Sam, a mixture the champion of awethe Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different lifethe main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, Qwelby, Tulliayet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's twin, is deeply shocked by last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the violence planet and everyone on Earthit. As he This is rescued by not his four best friends from choice however: that is the Pit decision of Despairthe alien Sereia, he experiences his first feelings for Taminamentors and guides, a girl as he has known for yearsis forced to confront this hazardous task. Feelings which become much stronger They have their own reasons for another girl he tries wanting Earth to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek be saved, but are too weak to restore challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their telepathic link. Forming search for a connection with human champion they find the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaalaunlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala not quite as he appears… [[My Name is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her ordersSam by Wes Stuart|Full Review]] <!-- Cargill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Cargill_Sea. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transportjpg|link=http://www.amazon. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discoveredco. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...|amazonukuk/dp/1473212782/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Daniel Suarez"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Change Agent==[[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill]]=== |rating=3[[image:4.5star.5jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]|summary=I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I Have you ever watched the Terminator movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had blue eyesactually won? Well wonder no more, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery because Sea of Rust hinges on that is our lives we are given exact premise; a selection world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from our mother and our father to work withplanet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. However, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorterNow two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. You can't currently choose what coding you getThey capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots, but what if you could cherry pick ' and inhabit a desert called the best aspects Sea of your family traits? It would be a great way Rust, where they do what they can to save people from hereditary diseasesurvive, but would we end up with a world full including cannibalising other bots for spare parts. [[Sea of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far.Rust by C Robert Cargill|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk!-- McAuley -->}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Baxter -|titlestyle= Xeelee"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Vengeance center;"|rating= 2[[image:Mcauley_Austral.jpg|genrelink= Science Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217318/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |summarystyle=Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Austral by Paul McAuley]]=== [[image:3.5star. Howeverjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, such as she puts it, ''a thing was created with political act. Conceived in a degree laboratory dish by direct injection of naivety and sperm into an egg. I was customised by a lack of foresight because out suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the worm hole flew an unknown vessel jargon of alien originher world has it ''edited''. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before She is, as a result, it is unstoppable and unfathomablea Husky. Bent on an unknown path, A human modified to withstand the vessel is unresponsive to cold temperatures of the human life around itAntarctic continent. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not even for much longer. This is a world in which the surface threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the sun. All it seems ice has retreated and continues to want retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbedbeing opened up for exploitation.[[Austral by Paul McAuley|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk!-- Arnold -->}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Godfrey-|titlestyle=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Arnold_Hunted.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785891855/ref=nosim?tag=5thebookbag-21]] |genre=Science Fiction|summarystyle=Warning"vertical-align: Spoilers for top; text-align: left;"|===[[New Pompeii Hunted by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1Geoffrey Arnold]] from the beginning=== [[image:4star.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new Pompeii just before jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Tullia learns about survival in the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theorybush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. The practice has been going on for years nowAdopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, but her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the modern young men and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peacewomen, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but itLiving a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's more dangerous than he ever dreamttwin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. Since As he arrived, he's watched is rescued by his four best friends from the Romans kill the inventors Pit of the machine that saved them. NickDespair, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him he experiences his Roman namefirst feelings for Tamina, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to livehelp during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cixin Liu|title=The Wandering Earth|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againtwins and obeying her orders. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and encourager of friends build what they hope will be the short form is Scifirst ever inter-fidimensional transport. So when you pick up On a collection of Sci-fi shortsshort test run, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelthe village where he is staying is discovered. Add to that When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached village... 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