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Five SFF Captains I Would Follow to Hell and BackIn any situation, there are leaders and there are followers. Normally, I’d classify myself firmly in the former category… but when I read...
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Catching Up With Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills CycleSet in a world reminiscent of Imperial China, the novellas of Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih. Mammoths at the...
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Five SF Classics About Powerful Aliens and Puny HumansHumans are often inclined to see themselves as the apex of nature on Earth. Social insects may make up a quarter of living animal mass, sharks...
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The Passing of the DragonA woman who fears she’s failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her favorite poets and finds something even more...
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A Shakespearean SF Thriller: The Death I Gave Him by Em X. LiuIn The Death I Gave Him , Em X. Liu reimagines Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Hamlet as a queer, near-future sci-fi thriller. Hayden,...
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Trailer Warns You Never to Trust a Recently Dead Dude Named TimmyThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series...
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“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” by Harlan Ellison: The Torture Never StopsWelcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent , where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story,...
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It’s Just a Job, Until It Isn’t: Godkiller by Hannah KanerGodkiller is Hannah Kaner’s debut novel. First published in the UK in January 2023, it received strong praise (including from Samantha...
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Read the First Two Chapters of Under the Smokestrewn SkySince stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies…...
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In Totally Killer, Kiernan Shipka Is Stuck in an Unholy Combination of Back to the Future and ScreamThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film...
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How Good Omens Queers the BibleGood Omens is a forked tongue stuck out at conformity and obedience to religion. While the book focuses primarily on Aziraphale and Crowley’s...
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Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher Looks Even Better Than ExpectedThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: The Dragon and the Amyrlin, Hubris Abounds in The Path of Daggers (Part 13)This week in Reading The Wheel of Time, Rand attempts to take Ebou Dar with disastrous effects, and Elaida contends with the disaster that is...
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Mirror, Mirror in the WardThere are few things more elementally fairy tale than mirrors. From classic fairy tales Grimm’s “Snow White” and Andersen’s “The Snow Queen”...
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Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for September & October 2023Wow! Publishing is going all out this fall with its slate of new young adult speculative fiction. I capped this at 25 of my most anticipated...
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Sci-Fi Thriller The Astronaut Has Kate Mara, Gabriel Luna Joining Laurence Fishburne On CastThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film...
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “The Forge”“The Forge” Written by Judith Reeves-Stevens & Garfield Reeves-Stevens Directed by Michael Grossman Season 4, Episode 7...
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Read the Third Chapter of V.E. Schwab’s The Fragile Threads of PowerOnce, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London…...
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The Unspoken Queerness in Saban’s Power Rangers“We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all...
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Souls and Sacrifice: Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little MermaidThe heart of mermaid lore in the West is one of the great fairy tales, as told by Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Mermaid . She is much...
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Five Readerly Pet Peeves (That Have Nothing To Do With Storytelling)Ideally, the experience of reading a book is entirely driven by the author’s narrative choices. In actual practice, there are many elements...
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Kid Cudi Is Beaming On Board Star Trek, Bringing New Music, Fashion, And More To FranchiseThis piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the...
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The Wheel of Time Foregrounds the Curse of the Aes Sedai in “Daughter of the Night”This week on The Wheel of Time , “Daughter of the Night” asks our heroes, and the viewer, important questions about truth and deception, about...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: A Hat Full of Sky, Part IIIIt’s time for the Witch Trials! (not those Witch Trials, don’t worry) Summary Tiffany goes to do Miss Level’s rounds with...
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The Changeling’s First Three Episodes Stick Close to LaValle’s Novel“Once upon a time.” A fairy tale always begins the same way, so it’s fitting that these are the first words of the new Apple TV+ show The...
