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			<title><![CDATA[How To Bring The Weird In Your Near-Future Stories]]></title>
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				Everybody says we're living in a science fictional era now. Your grandma's poodle is on Facebook, your whole social life is on your iphone, and mega-corps know everything about you. But if you think the world is futuristic now, just wait another twenty years. The weirdness will swarm exponentially, making the world of 2028 easily as jarring as 2008 would seem to a visitor from the Reagan era. So how can we, as writers and storytellers, create a believable medium-near-future world?				<a href="http://io9.com/382916/how-to-bring-the-weird-in-your-near+future-stories" title="Click here to read more about How To Bring The Weird In Your Near-Future Stories">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:12:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Jane Anders]]></dc:creator>
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