The PG Citizen covered of the book launch of the Okal Rel Universe Anthology 2 at the PG Public Library on Jan 29, 2008. I suspect the author was Paul Strickland since he was the reporter who attended, and also read. Thank you Paul! An extract from the article is repeated below.

People read from their favourite passages in the new anthology and in Williams's associated novel, Righteous Anger. Then members of the UNBC Freeblades Fencing Club, led by president Gareth Hopkins, demonstrated various fencing techniques because these figure prominently in disputes between characters in key chapters of Righteous Anger. During a brief talk, Hopkins outlined the history of fencing as a sport.

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• The more things change - medieval tech support visits an end-user confused by new technology (video, laugh-hazard). A Norwegian short-short.
  
• In an article around a book about the last fatal duel in Scotland (The Last Duel: A True Story of Death and Honor by James Lansdale), En Garde! The History of Duelling, Arthur Kristal reprises (or should that be remises) the history of the duel. From The New Yorker
  

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