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January 1, 2011

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brandon h bell: Brandon H. Bell is the author of Elegant Threat, published in the M-Brane Double along with Alex Jeffer's The New People. He is co-editor of The Aether Age: Helios & editor of Fantastique Unfettered: A Periodical of Liberated Literature.

His work has appeared in publications from Hadley Rille and M-Brane SF, as well as zines such as Everyday Weirdness, Nossa Morte, and Byzarium.

He is an advocate for sensible copyright and Creative Commons licensing, a member of the Outer Alliance (supporting his GBLTQ counterparts in the genre community) and a Rissho Kosei-kai Buddhist.

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