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	<title>Andrew P. Mayer</title>
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	<description>Author of the Society of Steam Trilogy</description>
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		<title>Book Two Cover &amp; SteamCon III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come say hi up at SteamCon III next weekend in Bellevue, WA! Andrew Mayer will be giving a sneak peak into Book 2: Hearts of Smoke and Steam (coming out Nov 22nd!) Friday night, reading excerpts from the first 2 books in the Society of Steam Trilogy. And, be on the lookout for some limited edition character stickers (and maybe some T-shirts too). Want to know more about Andrew and Society of Steam? Come to the Auditorium Sunday morning to watch the Airship Ambassadors interview, and check out other places he&#8217;ll be appearing below: FRIDAY 4 pm: Steampunk Lit to Watch For Location: Regency C Description: What writers and new fiction should we be looking out for this year? 5 pm: Non-Human Characters Location: Regency B Description: Your character is a human-hating robot; how do you write about it&#8217;s feelings without assigning gender or other human characteristics? 9 pm: The Falling Machince and Hearts of Smoke &#38; Steam Location: Auditorium Description: Readings from the first two novels in the Society of Steam Trilogy, including dashing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/10/book-two-cover-steamcon-iii/</link>
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		<title>The Anubis T-Shirt (and me) Dragon*Con</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be at DragonCon this coming weekend. If you&#8217;d like to get something signed I&#8217;ll be manning the PYR booth (907) most of the weekend. I&#8217;ll be officially signing at the following times: Friday, September 2: 2:00 – 3:00 pm Saturday, September 3: 1:30 – 2:30 pm I plan to be there for most of the show, so come by and meet me! Also arriving just in time are the brand new Anubis T-Shirt! Check it out: You can pick them up directly from me at the booth! They&#8217;re absolutely gorgeous, and I think people will dig them whether they&#8217;ve read the books or not! The art is by the talented Ted Naifeh, with a design by Laurenn McCubbin. The shirts are by SighCo, who will also be selling the shirts in their booth.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/09/the-anubis-t-shirt-and-me-dragoncon/</link>
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		<title>Rob Will Reviews The Falling Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert William Berg reviews book 1 of The Society of Steam Trilogy: The Falling Machine. &#8220;Mayer brings his New York City and his characters to vivid life, striking a beautiful balance between a historically accurate representation of the zeitgeist, mores, and prejudices of the era, a thrilling, steampunk rollercoaster ride of an adventure, and a richly realized character study.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/08/rob-will-reviews-the-falling-machine/</link>
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		<title>A City of Metaphors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People say that it&#8217;s easy to see the visitors in New York because they&#8217;re always the ones who are looking up. Real New Yorkers are far too jaded to look up. They&#8217;ve seen it all before. But while the giant buildings that loom over the pedestrians in the city may have a purpose, they also have a point: big structures make the people who stand underneath of them feel very small. The Chrysler Building, Rockerfeller Center, The Empire State building, The Brooklyn Bridge: The giant structures in New York aren&#8217;t just places to work or live, they&#8217;re also edifices to the point of view of the people who created them. And what may seem big and gaudy today, can seem quaint once they have put on the patina of decades. The Twin Towers were like that. While they will now forever be remembered in American history, when they were first erected in the city skyline, they weren&#8217;t very popular. I&#8217;m old enough to remember people commenting thought they were pretty ugly, or at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/08/a-city-of-metaphors/</link>
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		<title>On the SFFWRTCHT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Mayer guest tweets on the SFFWRTCHT column. Bryan Thomas Schmidt revisits his chat with Andrew about  steampunk, games, comics &#38; more. Check it out here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/07/on-the-sffwrtcht/</link>
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		<title>Reading from The Falling Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be reading an excerpt from the Falling machine at the PDX Gearcon this morning at 10AM. It&#8217;s all a bit last minute, but I&#8217;d love to see some of you lovely folks there.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/07/reading-from-the-falling-machine/</link>
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		<title>On the SF Signal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the guest on this week the SF Signal podcast. Patrick Hester and I discuss a wide range of topics in and around steampunk, and there&#8217;s some in-depth discussion on how I put the book together, and why. You can find it here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/07/on-the-sf-signal/</link>
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		<title>I Cannot Transform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am inflicted with disease that makes me unable to &#8220;turn off my brain&#8221; and watch a big dumb action movies.This is why I normally use Rifftrax to watch movies like the Transformers films. This review&#160;almost makes me curious to see the genre taken to its ultimate form, but at almost three hours long, I&#8217;ll probably skip it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/07/i-cannot-transform/</link>
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		<title>The Invisible Center of Steampunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats Strange Attractor: In Physics—An attractor for which the approach to the final set of physical properties is chaotic. If you’ve never heard of a strange attractor before, it’s a mathematical concept that describes a relatively stable set of equations that doesn’t actually have a center but a tendency towards a &#8220;space&#8221; of results. Applying that to the real wold, and what you get is an object in motion around the “idea” of a center.  There tends to be a lot of them in weather related phenomena, with the eye in the hurricane being a good example of one you can see. (You can excoriate me for my layman&#8217;s mis-interpretation in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/06/the-invisible-center-of-steampunk/</link>
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		<title>Is &#8220;Sucker Punch&#8221; Steampunk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love many things about Steampunk, including the way the genre has grown over the last year, but it can sometimes be difficult to determine exactly what falls inside and outside of the genre. While many things definitively are Steampunk, it seems like there are any number of people who are simply adding the term to a variety of objects simply in hopes that they&#8217;ll sell them to a hungry audience. I&#8217;ve even heard the term used to describe the movie Sucker Punch, and I get the confusion. It&#8217;s definitely period, although that period seems to obviously be the 1950s/60s for the primary world. And none of the imaginary worlds appear to actaully be Victorian in intent or nature. That said, the movie seems to have struck a chord in the community. I think the obvious reason for that is that it is, like Steampunk itself, it seems to be drawing on elements of the past (including now retro ideas of the future) in order to create a pastiche of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andrewpmayer.com/2011/03/is-sucker-punch-steampunk/</link>
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