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"textContent": "> My name is Hig.\n>\n> I was born in the Year of the Rat.\n>\n> I have no serial number but my pilot’s license number is 135-271.\n\n▽ Canis Major, the constellation shown in the book’s cover. It can be seen in Colorado’s skies during the Winter months. Till Credner, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.\n\nThe Dog Stars is a novel that occurs after an apocalyptic pandemic. The main character, Hig, survives in isolation with just two companions, Bangley, the gun-nut, and Jasper, the faithful dog. It is, still, not so much a post-apocalypse book as an interpersonal relationships and connection story, of course, set in an extreme context.",
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