Aviation Thrills in Erotic Science Fiction

One of the problems with writing Erotic Science Fiction is the fact that many potential readers assume the focus is on the erotic elements rather than the underlying science fiction and general plot. To try and overcome this perception, I’m sharing some excerpts from my series, A New Past to share some of the “non-erotic” elements. This excerpt is from chapter one of Book Two and covers the test flight of Paul’s first supersonic private jet.

 “Golf-one, this is Control, call your state?”

 “This is golf-one, state is two plus two at zero-point eight mach.  Currently at angels twenty on a heading of three-four-fife.  Standing by for acceleration, over.”

 “Roger golf-one, standby, out.”

 The voices were coming from a speaker behind us on the observation deck at test flight operations at Edwards Air Force Base.  It was hot on the sun-drenched balcony, but we all wanted to watch the first run of the world’s first supersonic business jet with our own eyes, even if it meant standing in the heat and squinting through binoculars.

 The plane had been undergoing a series of progressively more advanced taxi and test flights as the Gulfstream engineers and test pilots pushed the envelope on the plane that looked more like a fighter than a business jet.  If you could imagine a regular G-III without a tail, you had the start of the GX-2.  The wings were more swept and had a wider base giving them the appearance of long delta shapes.  A few feet out from the fuselage, the engines were slung tight below the wing creating a sleeker, more menacing look.  Instead of a single rudder, the plane had a split-tail; a V-shaped rudder assembly that acted as both rudder and elevator.

 Everyone who saw the plane admired the looks of it.  For the subsonic tests, the pilots had raved about its handling characteristics and the all-glass cockpit along with the fly-by-wire system used to control the aircraft.

 They had made suggestions and adjustments over the past week, but today was the big day we had all been working toward.

 Harry, three Gulfstream engineers, Matthew and I were all looking south of due west trying to follow the GX-2 aircraft and its chase plane.

 “Golf-one, control, come left to course zero-two-zero for your acceleration run.”

 “This is golf-one, roger.  Turning to course zero-two-zero.”

 A minute later, “Golf-one is steady on course zero-two-zero, angels twenty, over.”

 “Chase-one, confirm visual status, over.”

 “This is chase-one, golf-one steady on course, all visuals clear, over.”

 “Golf-one, this is control.  You are cleared for acceleration through Mach one, over.”

 “This is golf-one, commencing acceleration.”

 We all held our breath.

 “Golf-one at Mach zero point niner.  Controls stable.  Mach zero point niner-fife.  Experiencing some climbing behavior.  Correcting.  Mach one point zero one, continuing to experience nose rising.”

 We heard the dull sound of a sonic boom west of us.

 “Golf-one, holding Mach one point one.  Nose continues to try to rise.”  Over the radio we heard an alarm sound.  “Golf-one, warning light on rear fuselage stress gauges, port and starboard.  Slowing.  Warning lights still on.  Speed Mach zero point niner.  Chase-one, confirm visual status, over.”

 “Golf-one, chase-one, all visuals clear.  No external indications of a problem, over.”

 “Roger chase-one.  Control, this is golf-one, we had minor pitch instability during the acceleration run followed by port and starboard rear fuselage strain warning lights.  Golf-one recommends RTB for full inspection, over.”

 “This is control, concur RTB.  Pattern is clear, with winds from two-two-five at ten knots.  You are cleared for a straight in approach on runway two-two, over.”

 “This is Golf-one, roger.  Dropping to angels ten.  Turning.  I have a visual on runway two-two, over.”

 I spotted the plane through the binoculars.  Everything looked all right as it dropped lower in the sky and made a dogleg toward the base.  He looked to be coming in a little steep, but I figured he was an ex-Air Force test pilot and knew what he was doing.

 “Control, Golf-one.  Port rear warning light has gone to red.  Pitch instability increasing.  At angels four, over.”

 I was amazed how calm he seemed.

 “Roger, Golf-one.  Four miles out, at angels four.  You are high in the path, over.”

 “Roger, dropping to angels two.  Range three point five.”

 We could see the nose drop as he came lower.

 “This is golf-one, rear port warning light is amber at ten degrees nose down.  Returns to red in level flight, over.”

 “Roger, range is two miles.  Airspeed tracking two zero five knots, over.

 “Roger.  I have a visual.  Pre-landing checklist complete.  Lowering gear, over.”

 “Roger.”

 I watched the landing gear doors open and the landing gear begin deploying, when all hell broke loose.  Something peeled off the airplane’s rear.  From our angle, it was hard to see specifics, but as soon as it did, the nose pitched up dangerously.  The pilot managed to get the nose down some, before stalling, but was now yawing to the right side of the runway.  He dropped faster and seemed to speed up.

 “Mayday, mayday, mayday.  Golf-one is going in hard!”

Book Two highlights how Paul and his efforts begin directly influencing the world at large. A New Past is available on Amazon, as well as Smashwords and other ebook channels.

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Inspiration from the Scottish Highlands

I’ve just returned from a two week trip through the highlands of Scotland and am trying to get back into the writing groove. I’m sure some of my experiences will find their ways into my writing, but they haven’t percolated through my brain as of yet.

A few thoughts have already started to coalesce, however.

  1. Inspiring Scenery. It’s interesting to see the shadows of inspiration for many books reflected in the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow. There are several obvious points of inspiration for the Harry Potter series, but there are also echos of other tales as well. The countryside has been featured in stories and movies for generations and is truly awe inspiring.
  2. A Sense of History. One afternoon was spent with a story-teller who suggested that bloody massacres in Scotland’s past were inspirations for the infamous “Red Wedding” in Game of Thrones. The interesting part of his tale, was the phrase “But to understand what happened, you have to go back a hundred years….” That sense of history and the connections from the past that drive the present and the future is something I want to incorporate into my own story-telling.
  3. A hint of the Mystical. Tales around Scotland abound with mystical creatures and tales. The Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye have a rich folk-history. Kelpies and other fairy creatures come up in stories and history as well. The folklore of the region is full of inspiration.

As I said, I’m sure more of the trip will work its way into my stories in the future, but for now, I need to get back into the rhythm of writing.

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Discussing Excerpt Seven | Marketing Mondays

My latest excerpt is from the opening chapter of A New Past Book Three. I chose this opening to get the reader right into the action. I’m not a fan of extensive re-caps of what’s gone before in a series, so chose to assume readers were already familiar with the main character, Paul, who is thrown into the conflict in these first few paragraphs.

The scene is a mid-flight emergency on one of the orbiters Paul has built. It is the first flight Paul has crewed as the flight engineer. By putting him straight into the thick of it, readers can get a sense for both his prior accomplishments as well as his continued hard work to train for a job on the orbiter’s flight deck.

While I assume the reader has followed along with the prior two books, this opening had plenty of clues on what has gone before that a reader new to the series could read the book without picking up the first two books. Given this abrupt opening, there are some obvious questions you might have. I’ll try to anticipate and answer them here:

  • How much time has passed since the end of Book Two? Approximately two years. Book two ends in June of 1993 and the incident opening book three takes place in March of 1995. Each book contains a complete timeline of real and imagined events covered in the book for the truly curious.
  • Why does it open with “Pan-Pan” rather than “Mayday”? According to wikipedia, PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they need help and that the situation is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone’s life or to the vessel itself. Mayday is used to signal a life-threatening emergency. At the opening of this event, the crew does not believe they are in immediate danger, but they can’t talk to anyone.
  • What is the cause of the emergency? You’ll have to read the book to learn the answer to this one. During the scene, characters believe there was some sort of debris strike effecting communications with the ground. Once they land, they learn more about what caused their problems.
  • What else happens in Book Three? [No spoilers here]. Book three is the climax to the series. It catapults Paul to the center of geopolitical conflict and forces him to face his own mortality, his own morality, and loss he cannot overcome with his knowledge of a future world. It brings the saga to a conclusion while leaving the door open for more stories if the muse ever strikes me to revisit the world.
  • Will there be a Book Four? No. Paul’s tale is concluded in my mind. While there are possible stories in the universe that has been created, I don’t want to continue following along in Paul’s wake.
  • Why not? As a reader, I dislike stories that never end. I don’t want to be an author that makes my readers wait for “yet one more extension” of a tale. Book three concludes the story I set out to tell. It creates what I think is a unique “do-over” tale that avoids tropes of getting rich by knowing what the financial market does. It also explores the impact a person with advance knowledge may have even in the modern world. Many writers in the genre send their protagonist in the distant past in the vein of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, but few tackle such a story in the near past. That is the challenge I took on, and I think I did it well, so I’ve chosen to stop here.

Tell me what you think….

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Epic Conclusion of Paul’s Tale – A New Past Book Three Excerpt

One of the problems with writing Erotic Science Fiction is the fact that many potential readers assume the focus is on the erotic elements rather than the underlying science fiction and general plot. To try and overcome this perception, I’m sharing some excerpts from my series, A New Past to share some of the “non-erotic” elements. This excerpt is from chapter one of Book Three and covers the opening events that set up a major plot conflict for the novel.

“Pan-pan, pan-pan, pan-pan.  This is Golf Sierra Niner, in de-orbit profile, passing latitude eight-nine north on heading one nine zero. Altitude two-one-two klicks, descending.  We are broadcasting in the blind and unable to receive communications.”

I marveled at the disciplined voice of Terry White, the pilot.  We had been on what I considered a routine flight up to PTO-1 for a supply delivery.  We’d launched the station in December of 1994, just outside my eighteen-month goal, and had manned it continuously since.  Dr. Thomas Culpepper, one of the Season Three interns and now working with Dr. Wilkerson in my materials research team, oversaw the orbital science operations. 

I’d joined the flight at the last minute, wanting to review some of the material processes being worked on in the orbiting lab.  It was two days docked to the station and then an orbital change to retrieve an end-of-life military satellite for the DoD before returning to Edwards Air Force base with our cargo.  That had been the plan.

That changed after a debris hit, following the satellite retrieval.  

“Any way to know if we’re broadcasting?”  Samantha Conner, the co-pilot, asked.

“Negative.  Whatever hit us took out at least one antenna array.  Once we get lower and we’re not ionizing the air so much, our other comms should work.” Terry replied.  “I just hope no one gets twitchy with something de-orbiting from over the pole.”

While tensions around the world had reduced to some extent over the past two years, the START II treaty was still stalled in Congress and the US retained a formidable response capability to a missile attack.  Of course, GS-9 was on a published flight path, and I was confident the Air Force was tracking us, given our mission to retrieve a military satellite.

“How’s our speed?” I asked, as I glanced over my shoulder and out the window.  The glow of reentry had dimmed.

“We’re below six klicks a second.  Why?”

Rather than answer, I flipped two switches on the engineer’s panel before me and began typing on the keyboard.  After a minute, I sat back and watched the screen.

“Yes!  I’m able to connect to the remote telemetry system.  Let me alert ops.”

I began typing again.

“Ops is online.  They can hear our broadcast, but we can’t hear them,” I said a few moments later.

“That’s good news,” Sam said.

“It is.  Let me see if they are tracking…. Shit.  High T-34, high fluctuations on M-34, port engine.”  I typed furiously as I kept one eye on the monitors at my engineering station.

“Any station this net, Golf Sierra Niner broadcasting in the blind.  We are losing one engine.  Requesting immediate clearance to land….”

“Hill Air Force Base looks closest,” Sam said as she checked the track against her display.

“…at Hill Air Force Base,” Terry finished.

“Ops says we are clear.  They’re alerting Hill.”  

A red alarm flashed, and a klaxon sounded on my panel.

“Shutting down port engine!” I announced.

“Throttling down starboard.” Terry stated as he monitored his controls.  

The cockpit was quietly tense as the two pilots adjusted course and monitored our altitude.  I kept an eye on the engines.  I had many hours in test firings and simulator time, but this was the first trip sitting alone in the engineer’s station on a real flight bridge.  I was proud of completing all the certifications we had devised for the position but found myself wondering if the training was enough for a real emergency.  I pushed those thoughts away and pulled out the checklist for landing on one engine and began reviewing the procedures, just as I had trained.

Book Three is the epic conclusion of Paul’s tale and sees him lock-horns with geopolitical adversaries as he works to make a better world. A New Past is available on Amazon, as well as Smashwords and other ebook channels.

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WIP : Opening page

I’m trying something new on the blog now, sharing early drafts from one of my two works in progress (WIP). This first sample is literally the opening page for a novel which is currently at 25k words covering the first five chapters.

Can you imagine being born a god? Not the One God, but a god; able to assume an aspect and wield attributes over man and nature. Of course, you can’t, because gods aren’t born, they are made. This is my story.

— from “Divine Discourses – Introduction”

I watched the man on the monitor, reading in his lavishly furnished apartment. Part of me was resentful. The view from his couch could have been a master’s painting with its fiery orange and pinks behind the spires of the city with just a hint of blue on the horizon from the ocean. Millions would kill for the view alone, but we had showered more than money on the home of the man I watched. His apartment had only the best. Modern appliances in stainless steel; clean white cabinets floating above the dark grey granite countertops; a genuine leather couch and matching chairs. The program had literally spared no expense in ensuring his comfort.

Of course, many would say he deserved such creature comforts. Some would argue. Personally, I was caught in the middle, but it did not hurt myself or the project to provide such opulence to the program’s heroes. The fact was that giving them apartments we owned and controlled gave us certain advantages, including this vid feed allowing unobtrusive observation by a phalanx of psychologist and behavioral experts. If our six heroes had an observable difference from the others in the program, we had to learn what it was.

I was almost ready to ask what I was looking for when the man on the monitor stood and threw the reading tablet from him to smash against the sleek fireplace next to the doors to his private balcony. The violence of his action was shockingly unexpected.

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Discussing Excerpt Six | Marketing Mondays

One of the problems with writing Erotic Science Fiction is the fact that many potential readers assume the focus is on the erotic elements rather than the underlying science fiction and general plot. To try and overcome this perception, I’ve started posting excerpts from my books that highlight some of non-erotic elements to show characters and conflicts that hopefully appeal to the more mainstream readers. These excerpts will be shared on Mondays and I’ve created a tag “MarketingMondays” to track the postings.

As the excerpts run, I’ll watch sales numbers and see if they are helping.

I’ve come back to Book One of A New Past with yesterday’s excerpt. I chose the second scene of the book for this excerpt since I believe it captures the sense of adventure the main character has to embrace. It also sets some of the stake for his long-term goals. It’s been nearly a decade since I penned the first version of this opening scene and I still think it does its job to set the stage for the longer story. I had no idea it would grow to a nearly a million words to bring this opening to a solid conclusion!

Here are a few obvious questions and answers for this excerpt. If you have additional question I can answer, please leave a comment on this or the excerpt posting.

  • Are you anti-arab based on the villains in this scene? I don’t believe so. I don’t like to think I’m anti-anything, other than anti-ignorance. When I first posted part of this chapter online, a reader took exception to the use of “Social Democrat Party” in the opening scene of the chapter. They felt I was calling US Democrats by that name when the real reference was to the Social Democrat Party of Germany. I shared this link with them and suggested they read more history. Paul’s character is of a similar mind and his attitudes are shown through multiple scenes in the books.
  • Why pick Arab or Muslim sympathizers if you aren’t against them? This is a bit more nuanced. I am against people who don’t think for themselves, and Paul shares that attitude. In the modern world, this lack of self-critical examination and thought is typically attributed to three broad groups; religious fundamentalists (Christian and Muslim), science “deniers” of any religion, and celebrity cult-followers who believe whatever their Hollywood hero espouses as being the truth. Unfortunately, all three of these groups are susceptible to being guided and influenced easily. I chose religious fundamentalists of Muslim persuasion for this scene simply because it was something that readers could relate to, unfortunately.
  • How could a scientist be allowed to experiment with a fusion reactor in an urban university setting? Okay, that’s a fair question. The paper that inspired Paul’s approach to fusion was advocating for a low-temperature and low-pressure approach. I don’t know if that approach would actually work or not, and can’t find any follow-up papers or research indicating it has been proven, but it became a good plot approach to give Paul something with very high energy output that he could theoretically build in a simple university setting. I also envisioned a world where high-power fusion had not been successful, and where a political environment ensured it never would be pursued.

I hope this excerpt whets your appetite to read about Paul’s journey back in time and his hopes, dreams, and efforts to change his new world. The entire New Past series is available on Amazon, Smashwords, and other epub channels.

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A New Past’s explosive beginning

One of the problems with writing Erotic Science Fiction is the fact that many potential readers assume the focus is on the erotic elements rather than the underlying science fiction and general plot. To try and overcome this perception, I’m sharing some excerpts from my series, A New Past to share some of the “non-erotic” elements. This excerpt is from chapter one of Book One and covers the opening events that send the main character back in time.

Something startled me awake. I sat up on the couch and looked at my watch. Three hours. The accumulators should be fully charged. I stood and then heard a muffled thud. It sounded like someone was trying to bust open the door into the lab area from the Physics building. I heard another thud, this time accompanied by the subtle sound of glass cracking. They were trying to break in.

I hurried back to my workstation and saw that everything was set to run. I quickly typed a command and set the output to stream directly to my public cloud account. I locked the workstation as I finally heard the wire reinforced glass of the door shatter. I could now hear their voices. Husky, male, with a lilting, foreign tongue.

“Quiet. The rent-a-cops may ignore the bribe if we are too loud.”

“Do we care? We need to destroy them all for allowing this abomination to take place. The power of the sun is Allah’s, not man’s.”

I grabbed my pad and card and headed deeper into the lab. Maybe I could hide from them long enough for the system to fire and confirm my results. The safety cage around the test machine might keep them out for long enough. Quickly, and as quietly as possible, I entered the code for the cage door, opened it, and slipped inside.

“Look at all this wasted crap.” A voice declared. It sounded like they were near my workstation.

Crash!

“Those are just monitors. We need to destroy the computers he is using and his test set-up, not just monitors. Spread out and let’s get busy. Mullah Azim wants this done quickly. We must destroy this work and the man who would dare this work.”

I tucked myself back under the test bench and looked at my pad. The firing sequence had started.

“Someone is in that cage!” I heard. I pulled my foot in, cursing myself for not hiding better.

“Come out, old man and you will not be hurt.” They must think me an idiot.

“Ari, open that door.”

Boom! A blast shook the air, and I heard buckshot scatter against the wire cage and back wall.

“Idiots!” I called. “You’re shooting at a fusion reactor that is about ready to fire!”

Another blast hit the cage door, and then suddenly I was washed in incandescent white light and all sound ceased. My last thought was, “So this is what being inside a fusion explosion is like.” 

I hope you enjoyed this excerpt. Read more to see how Paul created his fabulous car and more by checking out Book One of A New Past available on Amazon for Kindle.

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Writing Exercises: Leveraging Ulysses

After drafting my writing exercises workbook (available for free to subscribers), I started using a new writing tool called Ulysses. This isn’t a review or plug for the app, but simply an exploration of how I’m doing my own writing exercises within it and some of my observations about using this new writing tool.

While trying out Ulysses, I became intrigued with its ability to set goals on a per-project basis. This felt like a prime opportunity to move my daily writing exercises from MS Word (or even plain text) into something a little more structured. I’m happy to say, my set up works, but there are some opportunities for improvement in the tool itself.

My set up:

A project. I started by create a project in Ulysses called “Writing Exercises”. Ulysses organizes writing into projects. Inside a project, you can have groups of sheets where you write. The concept is it makes it easy to reorganize by rearranging sheets within the group and groups within the project. For example, you can have a collection of scenes in a chapter, and easily reorder them as you work.

In addition to your own groupings, each project has an “Extras” group that includes a folder for templates and items you trash from the project. I copied each of the exercises from my workbook into the templates folder as individual sheets. To keep these templates hidden from the Ulysses exporting process, I made each template a “Material Sheet“.

My plan. Next, I created a group inside the project for August 2024. This is where I’ll collect my practice efforts. I created a schedule for the remainder of the month first, and assigned which exercises I would do each day.

The feature I wanted to play around with in Ulysses was that ability to set a goal on a project. I tried various settings and landed on at least 250 words a day.

The first exercises I did was a free write for fifteen minutes. It was 600+ words long, which was much too long for most of the exercises. 250 words seems like a good setting for now.

I can now cut and paste the needed parts of the template for any given exercise into the sheet for that day and start typing. A nice feature of Ulysses is how it shows statistics on the sheet you’re working on. For this exercise, I can easily see its 211 words, including titles and the template prompts:

You can also see statistics for a group or project overall simply by selecting them and looking:

If you’ve met your goal on the project, you see the green circle at the top level acknowledging the goal for the day.

What could be better:

I’m still learning all of the capabilities of Ulysses, but here are few immediate opportunities for improvement:

  • Timed goal. It would be nice to set a goal based on time rather than words or characters. I believe I’ve reached a nice compromise for my exercises, but feel a timed goal for free writing or other project types may work better.
  • Templates. The templates folder is nice, but you can’t (or I don’t know how) to make true templates. I’d like the ability to create a sheet in a project group from a template, similar to how you can create a document in MS Word from a template. I understand the MS Word use-case is more about formatting and styles, which Ulysses tries to de-couple from your writing, but I’d appreciate that sort of feature. Until then, copy and past works.
  • Links. I’d like the ability to link to a sheet within the application. It would be nice to link my plan to the sheet that carries the exercise for the day. Conversely, I’ve moved one of my works in progress into the tool and would like to link and cross reference some character notes to them in the narrative. Since Ulysses does decouple style and output from the text in the sheet, making a non-exporting link should be easy.

Ulysses has a lot of other features and use-cases beyond my writing exercises. I’m still in the early-days of adopting it, but I am enjoying it so far. I have one major writing project I’ve migrated into it. It has helped me add over 20k words to that novel since importing it less than ten days ago. Many other writers have shared how they use the tool. I’ll continue exploring its usage and limits and let you know as I learn and grow.

If you are using Ulysses and have any tips or tricks I should try, drop a comment here. Otherwise, good luck, and have fun writing.

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Discussing Excerpt Five | Marketing Mondays

One of the problems with writing Erotic Science Fiction is the fact that many potential readers assume the focus is on the erotic elements rather than the underlying science fiction and general plot. To try and overcome this perception, I’ve started posting excerpts from my books that highlight some of non-erotic elements to show characters and conflicts that hopefully appeal to the more mainstream readers. These excerpts will be shared on Mondays and I’ve created a tag “MarketingMondays” to track the postings.

As the excerpts run, I’ll watch sales numbers and see if they are helping.

My fifth posted excerpt was for subscribers only since it covered one of the explicit scenes from Cosimo, a Families of the Empire Story . I debated whether to include a spicy scene in my MarketingMonday’s effort, since I realize it could be off-putting to some readers. Also, by making it available only to subscribers, it’s unlikely to have sufficient reach to improve sales.

So, why did I do it?

A couple of reasons. The excerpt is the opening scene from chapter seven of the book. This chapter was first published online as a stand-alone short story entitled “Seventh Day”. It won the Short Erotic Story of the Year 2023 in a reader based competition. I was surprised the story was nominated for the Clitorides competition, let alone that it won its category.

I also think that a lot of the erotic science fiction being published recently is focused much more on the female point of view. That may be due to the target audience those authors are trying to reach or it could be something else, but this scene and book is written from Cosimo’s point of view. As such, it tries to portray a man’s view of the sexual acts described. Your own reactions to Cosimo’s feelings and thoughts may differ.

Finally, this chapter is pivotal for the characters’ development as it addresses Lexi’s family’s involuntary indenture and her father’s arrest for treason, a crime punishable by death in their culture. It also explores Cosimo’s perspective on his family’s role in the empire and their responsibilities in dealing with crime.

I’ll forgo my standard FAQ format for this discussion, since the obvious questions are answered in the prior chapter of the book, or within the remainder of this chapter. I encourage you to read the story and judge for yourselves. Cosimo is available on Amazon, as well as Smashwords and other ebook channels.

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