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December 24, 2010 By John Scalzi 17 Comments

Zeus is correct: We’re getting to the point where the new year is starting to peek over the horizon. What better way to begin to take our leave of 2010, then, than by posting my annual retrospective of what I think have been the most interesting Whatever posts of year? Because, hey. You might have missed one of these.

  • Things I Don’t Miss
  • All the Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend
  • Why In Fact Publishing Will Not Go Away Anytime Soon: A Deeply Slanted Play in Three Acts
  • Christianity and Me
  • Tom Becker
  • Why Punishing the Publisher Usually Doesn’t
  • How Many Times I Should Get Paid For a Book (By Readers)
  • Morning Announcements at the Lucas Interspecies School for Troubled Youth
  • 15 Years
  • Kodi, 1997 – 2010
  • Writing: Find the Time or Don’t
  • How to Lose the House
  • Why Not Feeling Rich is Not Being Poor and Other Things Financial
  • What I Think About Atlas Shrugged
  • When the Yogurt Took Over
  • Things I Don’t Have To Think About Today
  • An Election: A Short Story Presented By Subterranean Press
  • An Open Letter to MFA Writing Programs (and Their Students)
  • A Bitter November
  • An Interview With the Nativity Innkeeper

Enjoy, and have a good Christmas Eve.

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