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film, no further new productions related to the character have been released as of 2015. In 2007, working with young women students at
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short story collection) and was also said to have retired from full-time writing (in 2002, he gave Romero permission to adapt one of his short stories, "The Dark Angels", to a comic initially published in
Scandinavian anthology magazine
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said the novels were "endlessly fascinating" and that Blaise and Garvin were "one of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of
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