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| | The Chronicles of Amber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The first Chronicles of Amber were written by Zelazny as a series of five novels. | | | As inspirations for the Chronicles of Amber go, a compelling argument can be made for the 1946 novel by Henry Kuttner (and most likely C. Moore, his wife and unusually symbiotic collaborator) called The Dark World. | | | Oberon, the King of Amber, is the King of the Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(fictional_realm)
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| | The Chronicles of Amber (books 5-10) - sffworld.com |
| | The Second Chronicles of Amber (books 6-10) are not as good as the first, however what was achieved in books 1-5 is hard to beat. | | | The second Amber Chronicles are not as good as the first, but still a very, very good fantasy read. | | | The Chronicles of Amber (books 5-10) - sffworld.com |
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http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9245
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| | R. Zelazny's Amber Dictionary |
| | The Chronicles of Amber (the cover of the first volume is scanned at the left) is a series of 10 novels (5 in the original Chronicles and 5 in the second series) written by Roger Zelazny. | | | D.'s attempts to reach the Amber's throne made him an outlaw in the Golden Circle. | | | BORQUIST - Pit diver and poet in the Courts of CHaos. |
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http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~avm/Amber.shtml
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| | Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber |
| | The first five books chronicle his attempts to become king, his battles with his brothers, his intrigues with his sisters, and the threat and eradication of the black road, a tear in shadow which allows evil beings to come dangerously close to Amber. | | | Even in the second set of books, where women are more powerful and more involved in the story, their desire for power is generally presented as evil, or at the very least, suspect. | | | Women are marginalized in these books, especially in the first set of five; it is assumed, for example, that Corwin's sisters have no interest in obtaining the throne of Amber, but no reason is given for why they aren't interested. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/amber.html
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| | sffworld.com - Zelanzy's Chronicles of Amber is Superbly written. |
| | Amber is one of my top 5 fantasy series of all time, and his many standalone books include many of my all time favorite books. | | | September 11th, 2001 02:00 AM Zelanzy's Chronicles of Amber is Superbly written. | | | - - Zelanzy's Chronicles of Amber is Superbly written. |
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http://www.sffworld.com/forums/printthread.php?t=1900&pp=30
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| | Amber? - Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums |
| | The third book in his first Amber prequel trilogy "To Rule In Amber" is probably the best of the bunch. | | | Anyway, Amber was an amazing series (I've only read the First Chronicles, though, as I've heard the Second aren't nearly as good). | | | Loved the Amber books in the same way I enjoyed the World of Tiers series by Farmer and then the Otherworld novels by Williams. |
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http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/6941-amber.html#post151650
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| | The Chronicles of Amber - Realm of Infamy |
| | The Chronicles of Amber - Realm of Infamy | | | I thought they were great books with the usual ingredients that great books consist of: intriguing characters, interesting stories, and solid writing. | | | I devoured half of that big book -- that's 3 or 4 regular stories -- before I stopped reading it altogether. |
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http://www.realmofinfamy.com/forum/showthread.php?t=655
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10: Books |
| | Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles are amongst my most favourite books, I read the great book last year and am itching to read it again. | | | Buy The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 with Roger Zelazny's the Dawn of Amber: Bk. | | | Apparently Zelazny never denied the fact that he got inspiration to write the Amber books from Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers novels, and it is easy to see this from the similarities in the stories. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380809060
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| | Large Print Reviews - Blood of Amber, by Roger Zelazny - Book Review |
| | The sixth book in the Chronicles of Amber, in which the series protagonist changes from Prince Corwin, to his son, Merlin. | | | The seventh book in Roger Zelazny engrossing Chronicles of Amber Series, is the most action filled story up to date, it is also one of the funniest. | | | In fighting the evil forces of darkness, Merle must deal with shape shifters, ghosts, sorcerers of every ilk, and, of course, his relatives, some of whom are his most dangerous foes. |
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http://www.largeprintreviews.com/amber7.html
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| | Amber |
| | Zelazny's Amber Chronicles consist of ten books revolving around the Princes of Amber and their struggle against one another for the throne and against the forces of evil for the survival of Amber. | | | I recommend purchasing the paperback The Great Book of Amber as published by Avon Books for your first reading experience as you can pick up all ten books in one volume at a good price. | | | This fantasy is based on the premise that Earth is only one of many alternate realities to the real world of Amber. |
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http://www.whimsplace.com/Misc/Amber.htm
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| | Chronicles: Hebrew Text English Translation |
| | Chronicles I - Complete Mikraoth Gedoloth with English Translation and Commentary, Vol. | | | Chronicles II - Complete Mikraoth Gedoloth with English Translation and Commentary, Vol. | | | Chronicles and Its Synoptic Parallels in Samuel, Kings, and Related Biblical Texts |
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http://buydiscountedbooks.com/10246_chronicles-of-amber-volume-1/...
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| | Plainfield High School -- Reading Reviews |
| | Book 1 of 10 is but one in a Chronicle of a BIG book. | | | Amber Book 1: The Nine Princes of Amber | | | This book starts off with the main character in a hospital with no memory. |
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http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/clubs/reading/Reviews.htm
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| | Amber Explanation |
| | This page explains the universe that The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny is set in, and a bit about the RPG that uses that universe. | | | Your character will have a unique personality, and this Mythis is a swordfighter, and is damn good at it by most standards. | | | The Great Book of Amber, containing all 10 books? |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~memento/amber/amberexplanation.html
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| | The Chronicles of Amber Summary & Study Guide |
| | Like the five books that make up the original Amber series, The Trumps of Doom is not really a novel by itself, but the first installment of a novel in several parts. | | | In The Trumps of Doom (1985), Zelazny resumes the story of Amber in the next generation, initiating the conflict between the sons of Corwin and Brand. | | | Home › English › The Chronicles of Amber Summary |
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http://www.bookrags.com/shortguide-chronicles-of-amber/relatedtitles.html
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| | Pyramid: Pyramid Pick: Amber |
| | Based on The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny | | | In the late 1980s, the RPG industry was filled with rumors and lies about a new system based on Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. | | | As this goes to press, Wujcik is in the final agonizing throes of editing Shadow Knight, the long-awaited (and very late) sourcebook covering Zelazny's Merlin books - the sequels to the Chronicles. |
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http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=370
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| | Blood of Amber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Blood of Amber is the second book in the second Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, and the seventh book overall. | | | He escapes with the petrified Jasra, and returns to Amber where an unusual Trump summoning imprisons him in Wonderland. | | | He spars with the sorceror who now controls the keep, and who seems to know him. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_of_Amber
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Chaos and Amber |
| | Several of his novels and short stories are considered landmarks, including Lord of Light, Creatures of Light and Darkness, "Home is the Hangman," and "A Rose for Ecclesiastes." The 10-volume Chronicles of Amber is regarded as a classic fantasy series. | | | While there may be enough explanations in the book to get you by, it would be a much better read after the first book, which sets up the situation well and builds the tension even better. | | | If you haven't read the original Amber books, I highly recommend reading them all in order, though this new trilogy can be read on its own. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ca163.htm
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| | Games People Play |
| | Amber DRPG is © by Phage Press, based on the Amber books by Roger Zelazny. | | | I've never organized her diaries into a nice, neat web page, but if you're interested in reading them, the directory containing them can be used as a rough table of contents. | | | The PCs are children of a man named Aurelius who all grew up separately in Shadow, with no knowledge of Amber or each other. |
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http://www.deathstar.org/~fazzari/rpgs.html
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| | Amber comics |
| | The initial book in the comic adaptation of Amber begins with an essay by Roger Zelazny entitled "The Road to Amber", in which he talks about the books without talking about what's in the books. | | | The first book in the second trilogy of comics brings new readers up to date with a description of Amber and the events of the three previous comics with "The Legend of Amber", the equivalent of previous "What Has Gone Before" summaries. | | | It appears this was a mistaken substitution of the summary intended for book 3, since the identical text appears in the next issue. |
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http://zelazny.corrupt.net/ambcomics.html
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| | The Hand of Oberon |
| | The Chronicles of Amber never quite lives up to the first book, but the first time I read the first five books, they were literally page-turners that I could not put down. | | | I asked a few select hardcore fans who've read most of Zelazny's works to give ratings for as many of his books and stories as possible. | | | And from Corwin's conversation with Vialle: (Chronicles II, p. |
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| | The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf, Roger Zelazny Science Fiction and Fantasy Books |
| | Zelazny, Roger Blood of Amber Underwood Miller, Los Angeles 1986 1st ed, limited edition (#92 of 400), in plush box, F in dj. | | | Zelazny, Roger The First Chronicles of Amber Science Fiction Book Club, New York 1999 Book club, 1st ed thus, near F in dj. | | | Nice book club omnibus of the five Amber books. |
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http://www.strangewords.com/weirdbooks/zelazny.html
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| | The Annotated Amber |
| | Thus it is no surprise that despite general feelings that his Amber series is less groundbreaking than masterpieces like Lord of Light or Creatures of Light and Darkness, it is still rife with allusions. | | | An interesting point that Krulik couldn't make because the Merlin series hadn't been started yet at the time he wrote his bio of Zelazny is that in the Merlin Series, Dara is nearly a queen of Chaos, while in Book V of The Faerie Queene Duessa allegorically stands for Mary, Queen of Scots. | | | The passage from Krulik quoted above does raise an interesting point, though: the traditional tales of knighthood are steeped in Christianity, and it is notable that Zelazny filters damn near all hints of religion out of the Chronicles of Amber. |
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http://www.z-amber.com/annotated.html
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| | Amber, the Eternal NeuroSpace - created by Arref Mak |
| | Amber folk consider the Unicorn a personal Icon of Imagination and Freedom. | | | When the experiment failed, Dwor lost interest in the Zone, and his son, Obi Wan, began to take the leadership of the Zone and its Icons. | | | You can not use anything specific or intimate to Corwin's tale without a back history that ties your character to one of the principals of the story. |
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| | STEVE'S REVIEWS |
| | Kate Saundby - Author of The Nublian Chronicles | | | A LEAF IN THE WIND: The Chronicles of High Gondylar Book One | | | The second group is reviews of other author's books written by Steve. |
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http://www.dream-sequence.net/reviews/reviews1.html
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| | Amber Campaign Page |
| | Zelazny's chronicles of Amber spanned ten novels and several short stories. | | | Amber is a fictional setting created by the late author Roger Zelazny. | | | The basic idea of ADRPG is that players make up and role-play characters that are somehow related to the characters from the novels. |
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http://whiteknight.cit.cornell.edu/amber/amber.html
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| | Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums - Powered by vBulletin |
| | Discussions on some of the most talked about authors and their works on the chronicles network - to create a new board in this section, each author must have at least 5 discussion threads specifically about their work in the Books and Literature section. | | | General reading discussion area for science fiction and fantasy literature, containing specialist subforums on key areas - what you like to read, what you don't like to read; the best and the worst authors and novels. | | | For aspiring writers of science fiction and fantasy - discuss issues of writing, and find useful writer resources and have a sample of your work critiqued here. |
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http://chronicles-network.com/forum/8885-series-discussion-chronicles-of-amber...
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| | Amber Diceless Role-Playing |
| | When he was writing the first book, Zelazny considered having a different Amber prince narrate each novel. | | | This cast is large enough for variety, but small enough that each individual is memorable. | | | The first Amber series chronicles the struggle of royal Amberites for the throne of Amber. |
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http://megamod.d2g.com/JadeRPG
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| | Science Reviews |
| | I read about Alloran in the Andalite and Hork-Bajir Chronicles, and I didn't really like him, but now I just think how awful and hard it must be :((Oh no, I never want to be a Controller) | | | Anyway this was a great book and I'd read it a million times. | | | I kept reading the bit when Ax was at the movies again and again - I feel so sorry for him since he's all on his own on a distant planet where nobody looks like him except Visser Three who is evil :( |
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| | Princess Invidia's Amber Page |
| | :: In this context Amber refers to a series of books by the author Roger Zelazny. | | | I do confess that I have a thing for lobsters but I don't know why. | | | They are collectively known as 'The Chronicles of Amber." Amber also refers here to a role-playing game based on the same books. |
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| | Stories, Listed by Author |
| | The Chronicles of Amber Volume 1, SFBC 1979 | | | The Chronicles of Amber Volume 2, SFBC 1979 | | | The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth, Doubleday 1971 |
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| | Charles Stross, The Family Trade |
| | Is it as good as The Chronicles of Amber? | | | And if you like fantasy in the vein of Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, you too will find much to enjoy here. | | | The Family Trade is subtitled Book One of The Merchant Princes, which is a new series from Stross being marketed as a fantasy that is, to quote the advance uncorrected proof, 'a bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_stross_familytrade.html
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| | The Amber series |
| | Volume I contains the first two Amber books; Volume II contains books three through five. | | | How does Roger Zelazny explore the Themes of Truth and Reality? | | | series, a ten-book series written in two five-book chronicles. |
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http://zelazny.corrupt.net/amber.html
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| | Entmoot - Good news for Amber fans!!! |
| | There has been published posthumously(sp?) a collection of Roger Zelazny's later works which includes the 5 Amber short stories that tie up the loose ends from "The Chronicles of Amber"...it is called "Manna From Heaven" | | | The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin, fears attack. |
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http://www.tolkientrail.com/entmoot/showthread.php?t=2543&goto=nextnewest
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| | Westray.org Amber Diceless Roleplaying Games (DRPG) |
| | A second book was published based upon the Merlin Chronicles, called "Shadow Knight" and a magazine, called "Amberzine", has ten issues so far. | | | The first five were the Corwin Chronicles and the second five were the Merlin Chronicles (Corwin's son). | | | Amber is a Diceless Role Playing Game System based upon the two series of five books that are commonly referred to by the same name: the Amber series by Roger Zelazny (or The Chronicles of Amber). |
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http://calwestray.tripod.com/amber.htm
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| | The Great Book of Amber |
| | Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. | | | Witness the titanic battle for supremacy waged on Earth, in the Courts of Chaos, and on a magical world of mystery, adventure and romance. | | | Here you have them in a beautiful trade paper book! |
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http://www.childrencomefirst.com/greatbookofamber.shtml
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| | The Chronicles of Amber - Wikiquote |
| | The Chronicles of Amber is a popular fantasy series (consisting of ten books) by Roger Zelazny. | | | Chapter II Either it possesses a certain element of irrationality itself, like living things, or it is an intelligence of such an order that some of its processes only seem irrational to lesser beings. | | | Every time I complained about politics, here, in Amber, back in the States on the Shadow Earth, there was the automatic corollary of considering the way I'd manage situations if I were in charge. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sign_of_Chaos
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| | Strietzi's Reading Metadata |
| | I have the Corwin books in an SFBC two-volume collection entitled The Chronicles of Amber; SFBC has since released them in a single volume. | | | There are two sets of Amber stories: the original series about Corwin, and the later series about Merlin. | | | There is also a guide to the series. |
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| | Amber Discussion |
| | "I came across my cousin's SF/F Book Club omnibus editions of the first Chronicles of Amber when I was a Sophomore in high school; I devoured them greedily, and have wished several times since that I could read them again for the first time. | | | Amber, The Land, Middle Earth, and Cook's world are all truly magical and hold a special place in my memories and my heart. | | | Absolutely yes, and don't stop with just the second book. |
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http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/awrbooks/html/Discussions/amberDisc.html
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| | Find in a Library: The Chronicles of Amber |
| | Find in a Library: The Chronicles of Amber | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/10ebeb69e7992d47.html
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| | Amber Diceless Roleplaying |
| | If you have not read the books, I suggest you do so. | | | The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a system based on Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. | | | January 4, 1997 - This one was a big of a nightmare, because I had sixteen players and only one me. It resolved well enough, but if I ever do this again, I will make sure to have help. |
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http://alumni.imsa.edu/~solarian/Gaming/amber
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| | The Chronicles of Amber Summary / Study Guide |
| | The Chronicles of Amber Summary / Study Guide | | | Tell a friend about The Chronicles of Amber at eNotes. | | | One of the strengths of the Amber novels is the way in which Zelazny individualizes the members of the royal family of Amber. |
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