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'''Peter F. Hamilton''' (born 2 March 1960) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[science fiction]] [[author]]. He is best known for writing [[space opera]]. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide, making him Britain's biggest-selling science fiction author<ref>[http://www.panmacmillan.com/Authors%20Illustrators/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Contributor&ContributorID=69519 Peter F. Hamiltons biography at the Pan Macmillan website]</ref>.

'''Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg''' (November 29, 1856{{ndash}} January 1, 1921) was a German politician and statesman who served as [[Chancellor of the German Empire]] from 1909 to 1917.


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
===Early life===
He was born in 1856 in [[Hohenfinow]], [[Brandenburg]], the son of [[Prussia]]n official Felix von Bethmann-Hollweg and grandson of [[August von Bethmann-Hollweg]], who had been a prominent law scholar, president of [[Humboldt University|Frederick William University]] in Berlin, and Prussian [[Minister of Culture]]. [[Cosima Wagner]] was his relative from the von Bethmanns side. Theobald's mother Isabella de Rougemont was a [[Swiss French|French Swiss]].


Peter F. Hamilton was born in [[Rutland]], [[England]] on 2 March 1960. After he started writing in 1987 he sold his first short story to ''Fear'' magazine in 1988. His first novel, ''[[Mindstar Rising]]'', was published in 1993, followed by ''[[A Quantum Murder]]'' and ''[[The Nano Flower]]''. After this he wrote a massive space opera, called the ''[[The Night's Dawn Trilogy]]''. His latest work is the ''[[The Dreaming Void]]''. As of 2008 he still lives in Rutland, near [[Rutland Water]], with his wife Kate, daughter Sophie, and son Felix.
He was educated at Pforta Gymnasium and at the Universities of [[Strasbourg]], [[Leipzig]] and Berlin. Entering the Prussian administrative service in 1882 he rose to the position of the President of the Province of [[Brandenburg]] in 1899. After that he was serving as Prussian Minister of Interior from 1905 to 1907, and then as Imperial State Secretary for the Interior from 1907 to 1909. In 1909, on the resignation of Chancellor [[Bernhard von Bülow]], Bethmann-Hollweg was appointed to succeed him.<ref name=Globe>''Scrap of Paper Chancellor of Germany Dies'', ''The Globe''. Toronto, January 3, 1921. accessed on October 8, 2006.</ref>


===In power===
== Writing style==


Peter F. Hamilton generally uses a clean, prosaic style. His space opera is characterised by the way it switches between several characters—often there are three or more main characters, whose paths begin separated but eventually cross. Common themes in his books are politics, religion, and armed conflict. Though far between, there are sex scenes in his books, and some of them quite explicit.
In foreign policy, he pursued a policy of [[détente]] with Britain, hoping to come to some agreement that would put a halt to the two countries' ruinous naval arms race, but failed, largely due to the opposition of German Naval Minister [[Alfred von Tirpitz]]. Despite the increase in tensions due to the [[Second Moroccan Crisis]] of 1911, Bethmann-Hollweg did improve relations with England to some extent, working with British foreign secretary Sir [[Edward Grey]] to alleviate tensions during the Balkan Crises of 1912-1913, and negotiating treaties over an eventual partition of the Portuguese colonies and the Berlin-Baghdad railway. In domestic politics, Bethmann-Hollweg's record was also mixed, and his policy of the "diagonal", which endeavoured to maneuver between the Socialists and Liberals of the left and the right-wing nationalists of the right, only succeeded in alienating most of the German political establishment.


Critically, Hamilton is often grouped with [[Alastair Reynolds]], [[Stephen Baxter]], [[Ken MacLeod]], and other writers of [[space opera#New Space Opera|new space opera]] in the United Kingdom.
Following the assassination of Archduke [[Franz Ferdinand of Austria|Franz Ferdinand]] in [[Sarajevo]] on June 28, 1914, Bethmann-Hollweg and Foreign Secretary [[Gottlieb von Jagow]] were instrumental in urging the Austrians to take a tough stand against [[Serbia]], and later, took steps to prevent Grey's efforts to impose a peaceful solution on the quarreling parties. In the last days before the outbreak of war, however, he seems to have had some second thoughts, and he took half-hearted measures to support Grey's proposals of mediation, until Russia's mobilization on July 31, 1914, took the matter out of his hands.


==Prominent books==
Bethmann-Hollweg, much of whose foreign policy before the war had been guided by his desire to establish good relations with Britain, was particularly upset by Britain's declaration of war following German violation of Belgium's neutrality in the course of her invasion of France, reportedly asking the departing British Ambassador Goschen how Britain could go to war over a "''mere scrap of paper''" (the [[Treaty of London, 1839|Treaty of London of 1839]] which guaranteed [[Belgium]]'s neutrality), a remark which would become infamous for its demonstration of German insensitivity to international law and treaty rights. However, it is accepted that Hollweg was involved closely in the decisions that authorised plans to destabilise Britain's colonies, most notably the [[Hindu German Conspiracy]].
=== Greg Mandel trilogy (1993-1995) ===
Hamilton first came to prominence in the mid-1990s with three novels featuring the [[psychic detective]] [[Greg Mandel]]. Set in a near-future Britain which has been run into the ground by global warming and a [[Communism|communist]] [[government]], the books describe a society beginning to rebuild itself through the production of advanced [[technology]]. The books are a blend of lively scientific, political and social speculation mixed with elements of detective fiction. The books, and Hamilton himself, took some amount of criticism in British science fiction literary circles for his less than positive portrayal of an authoritarian left-wing British government.


Hamilton stated in ''[[SFX magazine|SFX Magazine]]'' that he chose this route for his books in order to make people think and challenge their preconceptions, stating that it would be too easy to make the bad ex-government a fascist one.
[[Image:Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg-Uniform.jpeg|thumb|left|In uniform.]]


===The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999)===
During the war, Bethmann-Hollweg has usually been seen as having generally attempted to pursue a relatively moderate policy, but having been frequently outflanked by the military leaders, who played an increasingly important role in the direction of all German policy. However, this view has been partially superseded, as the work of historian [[Fritz Fischer]] in the 1960s showed that Bethmann-Hollweg made more concessions to the nationalist right than had previously been thought. He supported the goal of ethnicly cleansing Poles from areas conquered by Germany, as well [[germanisation]] of Polish territories by settlement of German colonists.<ref>"Absolute Destruction: Military Culture And The Practices Of War In Imperial Germany" Isabel V. Hull Cornell University Press 2005 page 235</ref> Nevertheless, he was generally a voice of moderation,{{Fact|date=November 2007}} particularly after [[Paul von Hindenburg]] and [[Erich Ludendorff]] replaced the more ineffectual [[Erich von Falkenhayn]] at the General Staff in the summer of 1916. His hopes for American President [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s mediation at the end of 1916 came to nothing, and, over Bethmann-Hollweg's objections, Hindenburg and Ludendorff forced the adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare in March 1917, which led to the United States's entry into the war the next month. Bethmann-Hollweg, all credibility and power lost, remained in office until July of that year, when a Reichstag revolt, resulting in the passage of the famous Peace Resolution by an alliance of the Social Democratic, Progressive, and Center parties, forced his resignation and replacement by the political nonentity [[Georg Michaelis]].
After the Greg Mandel novels, Hamilton wrote a space opera in three volumes, known collectively as ''[[The Night's Dawn Trilogy]]''. The three books are each well over a thousand pages long and are not standalone novels. The trilogy is set in a universe with a wealth of worlds and artificial orbiting colonies. The plot is centered around the souls of the dead coming back from a hellish "beyond" to possess the living, and the latter fighting back. It was followed by a companion to the series, ''The Confederation Handbook'', an informational book containing data about the universe of the ''Night's Dawn'' trilogy. Hamilton re-set several earlier short stories in the Confederation timeline, published as the collection ''[[A Second Chance at Eden]]'', including the newly written title [[novella]].


===Later life===
===Fallen Dragon (2001)===
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg received prominent attention throughout the world in June 1919, when he formally asked the Allied and associated powers to place him on trial instead of [[William II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm II]]. The [[Supreme Council]] decided to ignore his request. He was often mentioned as among those who might be tried by Allies for political offenses in connection with the origin of the war. In 1919 reports from Geneva said he was credited in diplomatic circles there as being at the bottom of the [[Monarchy|Monarchist]] movement in favor of both the [[Hohenzollern]]s and [[Habsburg]]s, the nucleus of which was said to be under way in [[Switzerland]].<ref name=Globe/>


His next full length novel, ''[[Fallen Dragon]]'', is in many ways a condensation of the ideas and styles (and even characters) of the ''Night's Dawn'' trilogy, if rather darker in tone. The stand-alone book describes a bleak ultra-[[capitalism|capitalist]] society dominated by five mega-corporations which wield almost unlimited power. It describes the troubled military campaign by one of these companies to pacify a minor colony, through the eyes of a veteran mercenary. One of the more interesting aspects of the book was its unconventional description of a spacefaring society which had not been able to develop an affordable method of interstellar travel, and where mankind does not easily adjust to [[Weightlessness|zero gravity]]/[[free-fall]] conditions.
Bethmann-Hollweg spent the short remainder of his life in retirement, writing his memoirs. A little after Christmas 1920, he caught a cold which developed into acute pneumonia. He died from this illness on January 1, 1921. His wife died in 1914 and he lost his eldest son in the war. He was survived by a daughter, Countess Zeech, wife of the Secretary of the Russian Legation at Munich.<ref name=Globe/>


===Misspent Youth / Commonwealth Saga (2002-2005)===
== See also ==
{{Commonscat}}
{{Ghadar Conspiracy}}


''[[Misspent Youth]]'' is much shorter than either the Night's Dawn novels or ''Fallen Dragon'', and again depicts a near-future version of Britain (but different from that in the Greg Mandel trilogy). It combines a [[rejuvenation]] theme with a growing preoccupation with the phenomenon of European integration from the [[Eurosceptic]] point of view. This was his least well received book critically, perhaps because it was Hamilton's first attempt at an in-depth character study or perhaps because much of the book was taken up with descriptions of sex which did not allow many of the characters (particularly the females) to be developed. In addition, most of the protagonists had severe character flaws which added a more uncomfortable tone to the novel than much of his other work.
== References ==
{{reflist}}


''Misspent Youth'' is placed in the same universe as the ''[[Commonwealth Saga]]'', though it is not integral to the storyline of those novels. Much of the technology used in those novels (rejuvenation and low cost/high capacity memory storage) is established within this book.
== External links ==
* [http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsonpt100bethuoft ''Reflections on the world war'' at archive.org]


The lengthy ''Commonwealth Saga'', is published in two halves, ''[[Commonwealth Saga#Pandora's Star|Pandora's Star]]'' and ''[[Commonwealth Saga#Judas Unchained|Judas Unchained]]''. Set approximately 300 years later in the same universe as ''Misspent Youth'', it explores the social effects of the almost complete elimination of the experience of death following widespread use of the rejuvenation technique described in ''Misspent Youth''. In somewhat similar style to ''Night's Dawn'', Hamilton also outlines, in detail, a universe with a small number of distinct alien species interacting essentially peacefully and who suddenly become faced with an increasingly ominous external threat.
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===Void Trilogy (2007-2011)===
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Set in the same universe as the ''Commonwealth Saga'', the ''[[Void Trilogy]]'' is set 1500 years after the end of ''[[Judas Unchained]]''. Announced in August 2005, it has been revealed that the contract calls for the series to be completed by 2011. The release date for the first book, ''[[The Dreaming Void]]'', was 3 August 2007. A time line that links the ''Commonwealth Saga'' with the ''Void Trilogy'', filling in the 1500-year gap, has been written by Hamilton.[http://www.peterfhamilton.co.uk//index.php?page=timeline]
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The second book in the trilogy ''The Temporal Void'' will be released on March 24th 2009[http://www.amazon.com/Temporal-Void-Peter-F-Hamilton/dp/0345496558/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223842761&sr=8-1]. The third book in the trilogy has been titled ''The Evolutionary Void''.
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==Bibliography==
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=== [[Greg Mandel]] Trilogy ===
[[Category:1856 births]]

[[Category:1921 deaths]]
#''[[Mindstar Rising]]'' (1993), ISBN 0-330-32376-8
[[Category:Chancellors of Germany]]
#''[[A Quantum Murder]]'' (1994), ISBN 0-330-33045-4
[[Category:German Empire politicians]]
#''[[The Nano Flower]]'' (1995), ISBN 0-330-33044-6
[[Category:German people of World War I]]

[[Category:People from the Province of Brandenburg]]
=== The Web Series ===
[[Category:German nobility]]

[[Category:Hindu-German Conspiracy]]
See [[The Web (series)]]
[[Category:Prussian politicians]]

=== Confederation Universe ===
==== [[The Night's Dawn Trilogy]] ====

#''[[The Reality Dysfunction]]'' (1996, published in two volumes in the US, Emergence and Expansion), ISBN 0-330-34032-8
#''[[The Neutronium Alchemist]]'' (1997, published in two volumes in the US, Consolidation and Conflict), ISBN 0-330-35143-5
#''[[The Naked God]]'' (1999, published in two volumes in paperback in the US, Flight and Faith; the US hardback was one volume), ISBN 0-330-35145-1

==== Others in the Confederation Universe ====

*''[[A Second Chance at Eden]]'' (1998, collection of short stories set in the Confederation universe), ISBN 0-330-35182-6
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::::*"Sonnie’s Edge" (1991)
::::*"A Second Chance at Eden" (1998)
::::*"New Days Old Times" (1997)
::::*"Candy Buds" (1992)
::::*"Deathday" (1991)
::::*"The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa" (1997)
::::*"Escape Route" (1997, published in ''Interzone'')
</div>

*''[[The Confederation Handbook]]'' (2000, a guide in non-fiction style to the universe of the ''Night's Dawn'' trilogy), ISBN 0-330-39614-5

=== Commonwealth Universe ===

*''[[Misspent Youth]]'' (2002), ISBN 0-330-48022-7

==== The [[Commonwealth Saga]] ====

#''[[Commonwealth Saga#Pandora's Star|Pandora's Star]]'' (2004), ISBN 0-330-49331-0
#''[[Commonwealth Saga#Judas Unchained|Judas Unchained]]'' (2005), ISBN 0-330-49353-1

==== The [[Void Trilogy]] ====

#''[[The Dreaming Void]]'' (2007), ISBN 9781405088800
#''[[The Temporal Void]]'' (released in the UK on [[October 3]] 2008), ISBN 9781405088831
#''[[The Evolutionary Void]]'' (forthcoming, 2010)

=== Other novels ===

*''[[Fallen Dragon]]'' (2001), ISBN 0-330-48006-5

===Short fiction===
*"[[Falling Stones]]" (1992)
*"[[Spare Capacity]]" (1993)
*"[[Adam's Gene]]" (1993)
*"[[Starlight Dreamer]]" (1994)
*"[[Eat Reecebread]]" with [[Graham Joyce]] (1994, published in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'')
*"[[The White Stuff (story)|The White Stuff]]" with Graham Joyce (1997)
*''[[Watching Trees Grow]]'' (2000, novella originally published as a limited signed edition by [[PS Publishing]]; later anthologised in ''Futures''; then published in a mass market paperback edition), ISBN 0-575-07305-5
*''[[The Suspect Genome]]'' (1993, novella featuring Mandel published in ''Interzone'')
*"[[Softlight Sins]]" (Unknown)
*"[[Footvote]] (2005)
*"[[The Forever Kitten]]" (2005)
*"[[Blessed by an Angel]]" (2007)

==External links==
{{wikiquote}}
* [http://www.peterfhamilton.co.uk The Official Peter F. Hamilton Website]
* [http://www.theunisphere.com The Unisphere | A Peter F. Hamilton Fan Site]
* [http://www.peterfhamilton.com Peter F. Hamilton Information Pages]
* {{isfdb name|id=Peter_F._Hamilton|name=Peter F. Hamilton}}

=== Interviews ===
* 1995: [http://www.lysator.liu.se/~unicorn/hamilton/interviews/interzone96.html "From Rutland to the Universe"]
* 1996: [http://www.lysator.liu.se/lsff/mb-nr33/Peter_F_Hamilton.html "ConFuse 96 Guest of Honour Interview"]
* 1997: [http://www.lysator.liu.se/~unicorn/hamilton/interviews/sfx32.html "Big is Beautiful"]
* 2004: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/readingroom/2004/03/03/interview.shtml "Interview with a dystopian"]
* 2007: [http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-peter-f-hamilton-interview.html "Interview with Pat's Fantasy Hotlist"]
* 2008: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/24/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror Master of his Universe], ''[[The Guardian]]'', September 24, 2008

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

{{Peter F Hamilton}}

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Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton signing books in London
Peter F. Hamilton signing books in London
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Period1987–
GenreScience fiction, Space opera
Website
http://www.peterfhamilton.co.uk

Peter F. Hamilton (born 2 March 1960) is a British science fiction author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide, making him Britain's biggest-selling science fiction author[1].

Biography

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland, England on 2 March 1960. After he started writing in 1987 he sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. His first novel, Mindstar Rising, was published in 1993, followed by A Quantum Murder and The Nano Flower. After this he wrote a massive space opera, called the The Night's Dawn Trilogy. His latest work is the The Dreaming Void. As of 2008 he still lives in Rutland, near Rutland Water, with his wife Kate, daughter Sophie, and son Felix.

Writing style

Peter F. Hamilton generally uses a clean, prosaic style. His space opera is characterised by the way it switches between several characters—often there are three or more main characters, whose paths begin separated but eventually cross. Common themes in his books are politics, religion, and armed conflict. Though far between, there are sex scenes in his books, and some of them quite explicit.

Critically, Hamilton is often grouped with Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, and other writers of new space opera in the United Kingdom.

Prominent books

Greg Mandel trilogy (1993-1995)

Hamilton first came to prominence in the mid-1990s with three novels featuring the psychic detective Greg Mandel. Set in a near-future Britain which has been run into the ground by global warming and a communist government, the books describe a society beginning to rebuild itself through the production of advanced technology. The books are a blend of lively scientific, political and social speculation mixed with elements of detective fiction. The books, and Hamilton himself, took some amount of criticism in British science fiction literary circles for his less than positive portrayal of an authoritarian left-wing British government.

Hamilton stated in SFX Magazine that he chose this route for his books in order to make people think and challenge their preconceptions, stating that it would be too easy to make the bad ex-government a fascist one.

The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999)

After the Greg Mandel novels, Hamilton wrote a space opera in three volumes, known collectively as The Night's Dawn Trilogy. The three books are each well over a thousand pages long and are not standalone novels. The trilogy is set in a universe with a wealth of worlds and artificial orbiting colonies. The plot is centered around the souls of the dead coming back from a hellish "beyond" to possess the living, and the latter fighting back. It was followed by a companion to the series, The Confederation Handbook, an informational book containing data about the universe of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Hamilton re-set several earlier short stories in the Confederation timeline, published as the collection A Second Chance at Eden, including the newly written title novella.

Fallen Dragon (2001)

His next full length novel, Fallen Dragon, is in many ways a condensation of the ideas and styles (and even characters) of the Night's Dawn trilogy, if rather darker in tone. The stand-alone book describes a bleak ultra-capitalist society dominated by five mega-corporations which wield almost unlimited power. It describes the troubled military campaign by one of these companies to pacify a minor colony, through the eyes of a veteran mercenary. One of the more interesting aspects of the book was its unconventional description of a spacefaring society which had not been able to develop an affordable method of interstellar travel, and where mankind does not easily adjust to zero gravity/free-fall conditions.

Misspent Youth / Commonwealth Saga (2002-2005)

Misspent Youth is much shorter than either the Night's Dawn novels or Fallen Dragon, and again depicts a near-future version of Britain (but different from that in the Greg Mandel trilogy). It combines a rejuvenation theme with a growing preoccupation with the phenomenon of European integration from the Eurosceptic point of view. This was his least well received book critically, perhaps because it was Hamilton's first attempt at an in-depth character study or perhaps because much of the book was taken up with descriptions of sex which did not allow many of the characters (particularly the females) to be developed. In addition, most of the protagonists had severe character flaws which added a more uncomfortable tone to the novel than much of his other work.

Misspent Youth is placed in the same universe as the Commonwealth Saga, though it is not integral to the storyline of those novels. Much of the technology used in those novels (rejuvenation and low cost/high capacity memory storage) is established within this book.

The lengthy Commonwealth Saga, is published in two halves, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. Set approximately 300 years later in the same universe as Misspent Youth, it explores the social effects of the almost complete elimination of the experience of death following widespread use of the rejuvenation technique described in Misspent Youth. In somewhat similar style to Night's Dawn, Hamilton also outlines, in detail, a universe with a small number of distinct alien species interacting essentially peacefully and who suddenly become faced with an increasingly ominous external threat.

Void Trilogy (2007-2011)

Set in the same universe as the Commonwealth Saga, the Void Trilogy is set 1500 years after the end of Judas Unchained. Announced in August 2005, it has been revealed that the contract calls for the series to be completed by 2011. The release date for the first book, The Dreaming Void, was 3 August 2007. A time line that links the Commonwealth Saga with the Void Trilogy, filling in the 1500-year gap, has been written by Hamilton.[1] The second book in the trilogy The Temporal Void will be released on March 24th 2009[2]. The third book in the trilogy has been titled The Evolutionary Void.

Bibliography

Greg Mandel Trilogy

  1. Mindstar Rising (1993), ISBN 0-330-32376-8
  2. A Quantum Murder (1994), ISBN 0-330-33045-4
  3. The Nano Flower (1995), ISBN 0-330-33044-6

The Web Series

See The Web (series)

Confederation Universe

The Night's Dawn Trilogy

  1. The Reality Dysfunction (1996, published in two volumes in the US, Emergence and Expansion), ISBN 0-330-34032-8
  2. The Neutronium Alchemist (1997, published in two volumes in the US, Consolidation and Conflict), ISBN 0-330-35143-5
  3. The Naked God (1999, published in two volumes in paperback in the US, Flight and Faith; the US hardback was one volume), ISBN 0-330-35145-1

Others in the Confederation Universe

  • "Sonnie’s Edge" (1991)
  • "A Second Chance at Eden" (1998)
  • "New Days Old Times" (1997)
  • "Candy Buds" (1992)
  • "Deathday" (1991)
  • "The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa" (1997)
  • "Escape Route" (1997, published in Interzone)

Commonwealth Universe

The Commonwealth Saga

  1. Pandora's Star (2004), ISBN 0-330-49331-0
  2. Judas Unchained (2005), ISBN 0-330-49353-1

The Void Trilogy

  1. The Dreaming Void (2007), ISBN 9781405088800
  2. The Temporal Void (released in the UK on October 3 2008), ISBN 9781405088831
  3. The Evolutionary Void (forthcoming, 2010)

Other novels

Short fiction

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Peter F. Hamilton.

Interviews

Notes

  1. ^ Peter F. Hamiltons biography at the Pan Macmillan website


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