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		<title>Best of the Decade: Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this was way less pleasant than I expected. I mean, we all know top 10 lists are exercises in bogus click-whoring, so standard caveats apply, blah blah blah. But still: painful. (And this is probably the tenth top-10 list I&#8217;ve written this month. Some of these books I&#8217;ve already summarized three or four times in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=7313&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<mediaCaption><![CDATA[The troubled, rivalrous friendship of two 19th century English sorcerers, rendered in gorgeous, bittersweet Regency prose. Clarke writes as one who has seen magic done, before her eyes, and urgently needs to tell you about it. One of the first masterpieces of the 21st century in any medium.]]></mediaCaption>
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			<media:title type="html">1. Jonathan Strange &#38; Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">2. A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">4. Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">5. Look to Windward, by Iain M. Banks</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">6. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">7. The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">9. Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville</media:title>
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