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As the person most invested with ensuring that Cory Doctorow's work continues to run in Salon, let me just assure everyone reading these letters that I'm doing everything I can to keep this serial going. I take great pride in the fact that two of the stories I agreed to publish from Cory, "Ownzored" and "Anda's Game," have been widely recognized by the literary establishment as gems, and I hope the same is eventually true for "Themepunks."
Running a science-fiction serial, however, does not generate the kind of page-views that, say, a piece about condom patent disputes or real life dolls or mysterious bulges underneath a president's jacket does. So it's not necessarily easy to get editorial buy-in from all concerned. But I think in general that most of the editors at Salon consider Cory's presence in our pages to be a feather in our cap, so I am personally hopeful that when Cory has more chapters to deliver, we'll be ready to publish them.