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  "textContent": "\n\n> _\"I'm growing up in public, growing up in public,\n>  growing up in public — with my pants down.\"_\n> — Lou Reed\n\nKamikaze, streaking from the sky! Crash and burn!\n\nThus, the fanatical rage-fueled Kamikaze flight of yours truly in 1976, as I pilot the Japanese Zero of my career, teeth-gritting as I arc my aircraft down to destroy itself on the rusting plates of the steampunkish Jules-Vernean battleship that was science-fiction. — Read the rest \n\nThe post John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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