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Well, it’s been forever.  If you’ve managed to keep hope that I’ll return – and thanks for the emails and well-wishes, I really appreciated them! – then here’s your payoff.  I’m back.  Slowly at first, I must admit, but I’m back nonetheless.  My Viva should be happening in the next few weeks, and then after that I’ll post my thesis up here, or at least chunks of it turned into nicely digestible blog entries.  The final title of the Critical part was ‘Taking The Index Back: What Print Fiction Can Learn From The Internet’, and is a subject that I find fascinating.  Where do we go in print fiction with all the advances – or, what seem to be advances – that have been made to fictional forms using the internet?  Are there ways to adapt?  Are there things that authors and readers alike can do to prepare for the day when books will be available in either a print or digital form, and to adapt for the methods of reading that those forms will include?  Well, be patient and I’ll stick up some of my answers, at some point.   So, it’s all go here.  There’s been no major advances in blog fiction over the last few weeks – indeed, /fact HQ has been pitifully quiet.  Eli over at Novelr has had some interesting guest posts the last few weeks,   if:book has some stuff on Douglas Coupland’s new work (which is really interesting, as it features a novel ghost-written by DC that purports to be by the main character in his new novel), and today a new blog celebrating all things Sci-Fi went live over at io9.com.  I’m sure there was lots of other stuff, but then, I tried to have a little break after submitting the PhD: that stuff really takes up your time.  Any suggestions for stuff I should be reading?