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Sprawling Empire and Sprawling Worldbuilding: James Islington’s The Will of the ManyThe title of James Islington’s new book, The Will of the Many , isn’t just a political metaphor. In the Catenan Republic, those at the bottom...
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The Trailer for Nimona Teases a Barrel of Shapeshifting HijinksIf the first Nimona teaser was light on story and heavy on chaos, this one’s the opposite—kind of? It’s still heavy on the...
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Queering SFF: Three Stories by Trans CreatorsWe find ourselves now at the third and final installment of Queering SFF’s Big Gay Pride Month Recommendation List(s), following four...
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Rending and Tearing: Revealing Aimee Pokwatka’s The Parliament“What’s more extreme than murder owls?” We’re thrilled to share the cover of Aimee Pokwatka’s The Parliament , a tale of...
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The Witcher Season 3 Isn’t Here Yet, But Jaskier’s Latest Song Is!Toss a coin to your favorite bard, Jaskier! The character played by Joey Batey in Netflix’s The Witcher first graced our eardrums with the...
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Read an Excerpt From Nisi Shawl’s EverfairA land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pistols that shoot poison knives… Today...
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Privilege and an Unlikeable Protagonist in The Ferryman by Justin CroninOn the isolated island of Prospera, there are the haves and the have-nots—where the haves get rebooted, so to speak, when they get too old. All...
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Landscape With Invisible Hand Trailer Shows an Alien Who Just Wants to Understand Human LoveThe upcoming Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures film, Landscape With Invisible Hand, which is based on the 2017 novel of the same...
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The Wonders of Worf’s Character ArcWelcome to Close Reads ! In this series, Leah Schnelbach and their guests dig into the tiny, weird moments of pop culture—from books to theme...
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An Unlikely Kid Becomes the Ambassador for Earth in the First Teaser for Pixar’s ElioElio (Yonas Kibreab) is having a day. His mom’s too busy to talk to him. The ocean is behaving weirdly. And then he gets sucked up into...
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The Adventures Continue: Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi by Rob MacGregorIn this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field;...
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Two Star Wars in One Year?!? Yes, But Not Until 2026It’s time for another round of release date musical chairs! Disney has picked up its whole slate of upcoming releases and shaken it all...
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Canon Event, Schmanon Schmevent: Can Spider-Man Reject the Tragic Nature of Superheroes?I was having a conversation with my beloved colleague Renata Sweeney after watching Across the Spider-Verse , and we agreed that this film,...
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Of Course Foundation’s Next Crisis Is Even Bigger Than the Last OneDespair! Death! Destruction! No, this isn’t a Sandman crossover—it’s a short list of the things we have to look forward to when...
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Ann Leckie’s Translation State Is a Fascinating Space Opera With Intensely Personal StakesTen years ago this summer, I read an advance copy of Ann Leckie’s astonishing debut, Ancillary Justice . It was accompanied by an...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: New Weapons and New Weaves in Robert Jordan’s The Path of Daggers (Part 4)This week in our read of The Path of Daggers , we’re picking up where we left off in Chapter 5. Elayne has had her heart to heart with...
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They Cloned Tyrone and They Did a Lot of Other Dubious Stuff Too in Netflix’s Latest TrailerYou’d think that since one John Boyega is great, more John Boyegas would be excellent. But that might not quite be the case in They...
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The Allure of the Beast: Examining the “Monster Husband” Story“For who could ever learn to love a beast?” — Beauty and the Beast (1991) From classics such as Eros and Psyche to modern narratives...
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Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Library of Broken Worlds Is Like No Library You’ve Ever VisitedIn decades of reading SFF, I have never come across a world like the Library in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Library of Broken Worlds . Some...
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Trailer for Pixar Short “Carl’s Date” Is as Adorable as You Expect It to BePixar’s next feature, Elemental , is set to premiere in theaters this weekend, and with it will be a new Up short called “Carl’s Date,”...
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Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “E2”“E 2 ” Written by Mike Sussman Directed by Roxann Dawson Season 3, Episode 21 Production episode 073 Original air date: May 5,...
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The Flash Raced Its Way Into Our Hearts, Then Broke It With an Unceremonious EndingThe Flash began life as the first spin-off series from Arrow —but it ended as the last bastion of the Arrowverse. When we said goodbye to...
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Pratchett and Philosophy: The Tao of Sir Terry“Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day,” I say. “But set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life....
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Star Wars Outlaws, the First Open-World Star Wars Game, Looks AmazingThis… is a game? This is a game . This first look at the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws is astonishingly cinematic, and introduces a new...
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Screwball Comedy With Shapeshifters: Lia Silver’s Mated to the MeerkatI went back and forth on writing about this one. It’s very short—a novella rather than a full-fledged novel—and it’s very spare with its...
