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	<title><![CDATA[Summer Political Fiction: From Jessica Z to Black Clock 9]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-vandermeer/summer-political-fiction_b_118486.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2008-08-12-bc9_cover.jpg"><img alt="2008-08-12-bc9_cover.jpg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2008-08-12-bc9_cover-thumb.jpg" width="400" height="271" /></a><br />
<em>Man-eating sharks, James Bond-style villains with snow-white lap cats, superheroes in capes and tights saving the world.</em> Mmmm, yes. Summer reading. The potent fantasy of sitting on the beach or by the pool -- or at home with a hand-made paper umbrella in your rum-and-coke if you're enduring a self-enforced "stay-cation" -- and just losing yourself in a good book...</p>

<p>So you could be forgiven for not thinking about political fiction until the fall,...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-09-14T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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