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		<title>Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hosts Chris and Eric talk about The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke. Sri Lanka, Taprobane is the setting for this story and real-life home to the author. Questions about whether the myths and illusions that fill the early history of the setting told by a far distant narrator, Starglider perhaps, similar to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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