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Do You Know Who Illustrated This Classic Wrinkle in Time Cover?If you are of a certain age, you remember it well: The creepy, haunting, downright iconic—and totally weird—cover of the 1976 Dell edition of...
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How Do I Talk About Mrs. Davis?I’ve been trying to think about how to talk about Mrs. Davis . Do I go super personal, here in the privacy of the internet? Do I talk...
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Place and Tome: On Two Kinds of Unforgettable Reading ExperiencesA few months back, The New York Times asked Leigh Bardugo what books got her into fantasy as a genre. She named a handful of books,...
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Five Books That Help Me Face Anxiety and Feel Better About the WorldFor me, reading is meditation—a flow-inducing escape from whatever woes the workday brings me, and a welcome reprieve from any worries that...
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Announcing the Shortlist for the 2023 Ignyte AwardsThe finalists for the 2023 Ignyte Awards have been announced! These awards “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current...
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Transformative Disruption: Molly Tanzer’s “Go, Go, Go, Said the Byakee”Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical...
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Read an Excerpt From The Endless VesselA few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that people refer to simply as “The Grey.”...
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Five Surprisingly Sympathetic SupervillainsA number of years ago I noticed for the first time that moment in King Lear when Shakespeare, having apparently just noticed Goneril and...
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A Reminder That Talking to Ewoks Is the Most Important Thing That Ever Happened in Star WarsReturn of the Jedi has always been a film with a ragged reputation among Star Wars devotees. We’ve gone back and forth for decades over...
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Did Doctor Who Just Cast Indira Varma as a Time Lord?The next season of Doctor Who is going all-in on the intriguing casting. Indira Varma ( Obi-Wan Kenobi , pictured above) is returning to the...
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Get Your First Look at the Lower Decks Crossover in the New Trailer for Star Trek: Strange New WorldsIf the previous Strange New Worlds trailer was all about fun, this one is a little more about… feelings? I’m just saying:...
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Buzz Buzz! Recommended Reading for the Characters of YellowjacketsLike most authors who used to be booksellers, I never shut the fuck up about having been a bookseller, (you can take the bookseller out of the...
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Five of the Scariest Scenes From Animated Kids MoviesThere are some people who hear the words “animated film” and automatically (and wrongly!) assume that it’ll be cosy, sanitized fluff. While...
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The Wheel of Time Finally Has a Season 2 Premiere DateThe wheel has been turning… and turning… and turning some more. Prime Video’s adaptation of Robert Jordon’s books...
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The Battle Is Heating Up: Revealing Wicked Problems by Max GladstoneGods and lawyers battle for the soul of the world in the action-packed second volume of Max Gladstone’s Craft Wars, an epic fantasy like...
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Pretty Good NeighborThere are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands… It was a June night,...
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Read the First Three Chapters From Kelly Robson’s High Times in the Low ParliamentLana Baker is Aldgate’s finest scribe, with a sharp pen and an even sharper wit. We’re thrilled to share the first three chapters...
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Teaser for Skull Island Anime Gives Us Lots of Monsters, Including KongThe MonsterVerse is getting animated with Netflix’s Skull Island , and the anime spawned from the Legendary live-action film Kong: Skull...
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Forget the Plot, the Characters Were the Reason to Watch DC’s TitansAfter four seasons of very little fanfare, some controversy , and the best supersuits on screen, Titans has come to an end. The show’s...
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All Hail Aunt Nora, Jumanji’s Adultiest AdultWelcome 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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Five Fantasy Stories in Which the Moon Is More Than a MoonWhat is it with moons in fantasy? Is it possible that Earth’s rocky tag-a-long is too boring and barren for us? Fantasy moons need verve, a bit...
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Reading The Wheel of Time: It’s Too Late to Turn Back in Robert Jordan’s The Path of Daggers (Part 1)The wheel turns, the wind picks up, and once again, we start a new book in Reading the Wheel of Time. Today we start Book Eight of the series,...
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Dissecting The Dark Descent: Stephen King’s “The Reach,” and Why Reading Order MattersIn 1987, editor David G. Hartwell embarked on a massive undertaking. Through conversations, panels, and a variety of correspondence, he came...
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John Wick Meets Dungeons & Dragons: Revealing P. Djèlí Clark’s The Dead Cat Tail AssassinsNew P. Djèlí Clark. New world. Swords out. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most...
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Contained Horror on a Generation Ship: Ness Brown’s The Scourge Between StarsGeneration ships never seem to work out well. Food and energy and water run to dangerously short supply with no way to restock; or the morale...
