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Part 1 of the latest fiction from Dream Café’s Reesa Brown is now available. Rescue Ride, part of our Continuous Coast project, is the story of one of the greatest adventures of Mikasa Rider, leader of the new generation of Gurge Riders in the city of Port Outreach. Enjoy!

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Some of you may be aware of the Continuous Coast project, an open-content shared world which we began in 2008. In celebration of the New Year, we’re offering free fiction from each of the Dream Café members. For stories from Reesa Brown, Steven Brust, and Kit O’Connell, visit Continuous Coast.

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Every time I get my “moon time”, I want to punch a pagan in the mouth.

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Reesa’s mother makes kick-ASS lentil soup. That is all. –Steve

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I notice while over England that their neat regular rows of farm fields look suspiciously similar to the long, narrow rows of flats in their towns. I wonder how many other places modeled their cities after their farm structure, whether intentionally or not? While airport food is usually sub-standard, it seems the English reputation for [...]

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We’ve put up a small web page for Reesa and Steve’s appearance at Icon 2008. You can view slides from her presentation or read a round-up of all blog posts relating to the event. Although the slides are similar to those we used in our Arse Elektronika 2008 presentation, these contain exclusive photos from the [...]

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I hope I learn a lasting lesson from the last several months. This is the first trip I’ve ever taken where I was literally tossing unfolded clothes into my checked bag 30 minutes before we drove to the Houston airport, and I certainly hope it’s the last trip with such last-minute trip preparation. (To be [...]

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Our outgoing flight was delayed for 4 hours at the gate, which caused us to miss our connecting flight from Heathrow to Tel Aviv. The only available remaining flight for today was for 10:30 tonight (local time), and in our rush to hurry out the door (wish we’d known we didn’t have to!) we neglected [...]

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About 24 hours from now, I head off to Tel Aviv for Icon.  I should be back in about ten days.  Until then, I don’t think I’ll have access to email.

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(reposted from personal journal by request) When working on a big project and trying to come up with cool ways to draw people into your created world, it’s sometimes hard to guess which line to straddle in how much and how fast you disperse your information. You want to make sure any early adopter fans [...]

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