{"id":588,"date":"2005-07-23T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=588"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:56:10","slug":"book-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/book-news","title":{"rendered":"Book News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official VM pal Paul Di Filippo<\/a> has a new collection of short stories out: The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories<\/a>! You oughtta pick it up ASAP, because it’s got a character who is just passingly based on me (ok, just barely, but it’s SOME sorta immortality, right?)!<\/p>\n

Paul Di F.’s also got a new comic-book miniseries<\/a> coming out soon! It’s a sequel to Alan Moore’s Top 10<\/span>, which I enjoyed a bunch.<\/p>\n

You should probably just head over to Paul’s site<\/a> and check out some of his other projects. He’s a heck of a writer and a good guy, besides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Official VM pal Paul Di Filippo has a new collection of short stories out: The Emperor of Gondwanaland and Other Stories! You oughtta pick it up ASAP, because it’s got a character who is just passingly based on me (ok, just barely, but it’s SOME sorta immortality, right?)! Paul Di F.’s also got a new … <\/p>\n

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