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Official VM buddy Paul Di Filippo has joined (and helped launch) a new blog: The Inferior 4<\/a>!<\/p>\n

His co-conspirators include Liz Hand, Paul Witcover and Lucius Shepard! Of the three, I’ve only read work by Shepard before, but I’m sure they’ll provide some entertaining posts, so check ’em out<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(Oh, and here’s the ref<\/a> for the name of their blog)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Official VM buddy Paul Di Filippo has joined (and helped launch) a new blog: The Inferior 4! His co-conspirators include Liz Hand, Paul Witcover and Lucius Shepard! Of the three, I’ve only read work by Shepard before, but I’m sure they’ll provide some entertaining posts, so check ’em out! (Oh, and here’s the ref for … <\/p>\n

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