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		<title>An obfuscation of Voynich novels&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/31/an-obfuscation-of-voynich-novels</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I hurried my seven year old son to the back door to see a crowd of twenty or more crows spectacularly circling and cawing furiously at a pair of magpies who had presumably transgressed some unwritten bird law. Of course, though, the correct collective noun isn&#8217;t a &#8216;crowd&#8217;, but (rather delightfully) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago, I hurried my seven year old son to the back door to see a crowd of twenty or more crows spectacularly circling and cawing furiously at a pair of magpies who had presumably transgressed some unwritten bird law. Of course, though, the correct collective noun isn&#8217;t a &#8216;crowd&#8217;, but (rather delightfully) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/23/review-steve-santa-and-the-secret-of-the-last-parfait</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/23/review-steve-santa-and-the-secret-of-the-last-parfait#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how two things can have all the same basic ingredients and yet end up wildly different. A Maclaren MP4-12C and a Fiat 500 are both cars: yet few would disagree that they&#8217;re worlds apart. Similarly, even though Emery Borka has &#8211; in Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait &#8211; succeeded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how two things can have all the same basic ingredients and yet end up wildly different. A Maclaren MP4-12C and a Fiat 500 are both cars: yet few would disagree that they&#8217;re worlds apart.
Similarly, even though Emery Borka has &#8211; in Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait &#8211; succeeded in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Micro-review of &#8220;The Library of the Dead&#8221; by Glenn Cooper&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/19/micro-review-of-the-library-of-the-dead-by-glenn-cooper</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/19/micro-review-of-the-library-of-the-dead-by-glenn-cooper#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you read a book by an author still finding their writing feet: lively ideas, but clunky characterization and occasional phrases that make you blink and read them a second time for all the wrong reasons. So it is with Glenn Cooper&#8217;s &#8220;Library of the Dead&#8221;, with its anti-(ish)-hero Will Piper, the FBI&#8217;s soon-to-retire forensic profiling star: if you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sometimes you read a book by an author still finding their writing feet: lively ideas, but clunky characterization and occasional phrases that make you blink and read them a second time for all the wrong reasons. So it is with Glenn Cooper&#8217;s &#8220;Library of the Dead&#8221;, with its anti-(ish)-hero Will Piper, the FBI&#8217;s soon-to-retire forensic profiling star: if you [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Brad Kelln&#8217;s &#8220;In Tongues of the Dead&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/12/review-of-brad-kellns-in-tongues-of-the-dead</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/12/review-of-brad-kellns-in-tongues-of-the-dead#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With &#8220;write what you know&#8221; apparently ringing loudly in his ears, Brad Kelln constructed his fictional protagonist Jake Tunnel to be, just like him, a Nova Scotia-based psychologist (and is Kelln married with young kids too? Almost certainly). But probably unlike Kelln, Tunnel&#8217;s best friend at college Benicio Valori constantly globetrots on behalf of the Vatican&#8217;s Congregation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With &#8220;write what you know&#8221; apparently ringing loudly in his ears, Brad Kelln constructed his fictional protagonist Jake Tunnel to be, just like him, a Nova Scotia-based psychologist (and is Kelln married with young kids too? Almost certainly). But probably unlike Kelln, Tunnel&#8217;s best friend at college Benicio Valori constantly globetrots on behalf of the Vatican&#8217;s Congregation [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Latayne C. Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Latter-Day Cipher&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/08/16/review-of-latayne-c-scotts-latter-day-cipher</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/08/16/review-of-latayne-c-scotts-latter-day-cipher#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now here&#8217;s something that doesn&#8217;t pop up every day: ex-Mormon cipher fiction. In &#8220;Latter-Day Cipher&#8220;, Latayne C. Scott has crafted quite an interesting piece of work, combining the US police procedural genre (where in this case the main protagonist is a female journalist parachuted in from outside) with a kind of veil-lifting piece on the inner workings [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Now here&#8217;s something that doesn&#8217;t pop up every day: ex-Mormon cipher fiction. In &#8220;Latter-Day Cipher&#8220;, Latayne C. Scott has crafted quite an interesting piece of work, combining the US police procedural genre (where in this case the main protagonist is a female journalist parachuted in from outside) with a kind of veil-lifting piece on the inner workings [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Brett King&#8217;s &#8220;The Radix&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/08/15/review-of-brett-kings-the-radix</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/08/15/review-of-brett-kings-the-radix#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to admit it, but Brett King&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Radix&#8221; has very nearly pushed me over the edge as far as Voynich-themed novels go. OK, if you like your cipher mystery fiction spiced up with implausibly steel-chinned Secret Government Agency action heroes with PhD-level history credentials and who the US President just happens to owe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I hate to admit it, but Brett King&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Radix&#8221; has very nearly pushed me over the edge as far as Voynich-themed novels go. OK, if you like your cipher mystery fiction spiced up with implausibly steel-chinned Secret Government Agency action heroes with PhD-level history credentials and who the US President just happens to owe [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Enrique Joven&#8217;s &#8220;The Book of God and Physics&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/23/review-of-enrique-jovens-the-book-of-god-and-physics</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/23/review-of-enrique-jovens-the-book-of-god-and-physics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Kepler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ll declare my hand: back when my 2008 History Today article on the early history of the telescope came out, Enrique Joven very kindly translated it into Spanish for the magazine Astronomia, so I know Enrique pretty well. That said, Cipher Mysteries reviews don&#8217;t have star ratings &#38; I&#8217;m not one to hide what I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[(I&#8217;ll declare my hand: back when my 2008 History Today article on the early history of the telescope came out, Enrique Joven very kindly translated it into Spanish for the magazine Astronomia, so I know Enrique pretty well. That said, Cipher Mysteries reviews don&#8217;t have star ratings &amp; I&#8217;m not one to hide what I&#8217;m [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of Christopher Harris&#8217; &#8220;Mappamundi&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/20/review-of-christopher-harris-mappamundi</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/20/review-of-christopher-harris-mappamundi#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Fat List]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, moving straight into confessional mode, I feel more than a touch ashamed that I haven&#8217;t reviewed Chris Harris&#8217; Mappamundi loooong before now. But&#8230; even though I&#8217;ve read it twice, I still don&#8217;t really know what to say about it. Let me explain&#8230; Sticking to the knitting, it&#8217;s a fairly trite starting point to note that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, moving straight into confessional mode, I feel more than a touch ashamed that I haven&#8217;t reviewed Chris Harris&#8217; Mappamundi loooong before now. But&#8230; even though I&#8217;ve read it twice, I still don&#8217;t really know what to say about it. Let me explain&#8230;
Sticking to the knitting, it&#8217;s a fairly trite starting point to note that it&#8217;s an [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Alexander Cipher&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/18/review-of-the-alexander-cipher</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/18/review-of-the-alexander-cipher#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another historical mystery airport novel to review, this time with Will Adams&#8217; protagonist Daniel Knox exercising his &#8220;outcast Egyptologist&#8221; mojo in and around Alexandria, Siwa etc. Will Knox be able to solve all the clues and use his exceptional underwater swimming skills to find Alexander The Great&#8217;s fabulous (but lost) golden catafalque, or will the various [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Another day, another historical mystery airport novel to review, this time with Will Adams&#8217; protagonist Daniel Knox exercising his &#8220;outcast Egyptologist&#8221; mojo in and around Alexandria, Siwa etc. Will Knox be able to solve all the clues and use his exceptional underwater swimming skills to find Alexander The Great&#8217;s fabulous (but lost) golden catafalque, or will the various [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Charlemagne Pursuit&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/15/review-of-the-charlemagne-pursuit</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/15/review-of-the-charlemagne-pursuit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Fat List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my opinion, cipher mystery-themed airport novels tend (as I wrote here a few days ago) to be written by (1) &#8220;Rack Pack&#8221; writers, (2) &#8220;Domain Experts&#8221;, or (3) &#8220;Wannabe Screenwriters&#8221;. Having read Steve Berry&#8217;s book &#8220;The Templar Legacy&#8221; (2006) as a warm-up, I recently moved on to his &#8220;The Charlemagne Pursuit&#8221; (2008), where the serial [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In my opinion, cipher mystery-themed airport novels tend (as I wrote here a few days ago) to be written by (1) &#8220;Rack Pack&#8221; writers, (2) &#8220;Domain Experts&#8221;, or (3) &#8220;Wannabe Screenwriters&#8221;. Having read Steve Berry&#8217;s book &#8220;The Templar Legacy&#8221; (2006) as a warm-up, I recently moved on to his &#8220;The Charlemagne Pursuit&#8221; (2008), where the serial [...]]]></content:encoded>
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