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There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump right into the fifth story

for the month of December 2015. The piece is titled Technarian and is by

Sean McMullen. Sean McMullen quit scientific computing to become a full-time author in 2014.

Prior to that, as an after-hours author, he established his international reputation with

his pioneering steam-punk novel, Souls in the Great Machine,

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