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whatever.scalzi.com - 1/22/2009

Ladies and Gentlemen: Science Fiction Comedy Improv!

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As many of you know, last Friday Mary Robinette Kowal and I did a reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, in which we read a number of our short pieces, mostly humorous, and generally had a pretty good time. What you may not know is that in addition to reading, we tried something fairly ...

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Scalzi and Kowal Comedy Improv
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