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The Atlantic’s List of Greatest Girl Characters in Literature: Really?
So a few days ago The Atlantic printed their list of the Greatest Girl Characters of Young Adult Literature. And, well, apart from the factual errors here and there on the list, as you might be...
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Wading Into the Hard Side of the Big Easy
Should science fiction and fantasy explore real events? Should speculative fiction address tragedies recent enough to still be part of the world’s collective consciousness? Should certain subjects be...
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Download the First Five Chapters of Redshirts for Free
Tor Books has released the first five chapters of John Scalzi’s new upcoming book Redshirts for free! The prologue through chapter 4 of the book is now available for mobile devices as a small bundled...
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Genre in the Mainstream: Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife
It’s probably only recently that a novel as stuffed with genre conceits as Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife could be shelved in the literature section. Quantum computers, neurological...
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Grimm Special: “The Thing With Feathers”
Well, Once Upon a Time took Easter Sunday off, so there wasn’t a new episode last night, which means that we have a Grimm Special this week in the Battle of the Network Fairy Tale Shows.This is just as...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Gathering Storm, Part 27
Happy honorary June 17th, WOTers! This here is a Wheel of Time Re-read!Today’s entry covers Chapters 47 and 48 of The Gathering Storm, in which we have fathers, sons, rage, sorrow, thoughts on...
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Book Tour for Suzanne Johnson’s Royal Street Starts Today!
Tor author and Tor.com contributor Suzanne Johnson’s debut novel Royal Street has just been released! Royal Street explores an urban fantasy New Orleans with junior wizard sentinel; Drusilla Jaco....
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “First Contact”
“First Contact”Written by Marc Scott Zicree and Dennis Russell Bailey & David Bischoff and Joe Menosky & Ronald D. Moore and Michael PillerDirected by Cliff BoleSeason 4, Episode 15Production...
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The End of It All: Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery
Brian Francis Slattery’s latest novel Lost Everything, out today, is a deeply dark and disconcertingly dire peek into a future where the end of the apocalypse never comes. Waves of horror and tragedy...
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Time and Relative Dimensions in Improv: The Professor
Las Vegas, sometime in the 1960s. A mysterious casino boss is wagering people’s destinies, possibly even the fate of the universe itself—threatening the very fabric of space and time. The only thing...
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Moiraine Sedai Is This Close to Winning the 2012 Suvudu Cage Match
The championship match between Moraine Sedai (Wheel of Time) and Kylar Stern (Night Angel) is well underway in Suvudu’s 2012 Cage Match. Wheel of Time and Night Angel fans have until 5:00 PM Thursday...
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Morning Roundup: The Girl is NOT in the Fireplace
Welcome to Wednesday! Remember when Don Draper dressed up as Magneto to entertain his kids in that one episode in Mad Men season 2? Oh, that only happened in our fanfic?The answer to this question does...
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On 20468 Petercook
Enjoy “On 20468 Petercook,” a new original story by author Andy Duncan about Stanley and George, two resolute employees of Trans-Space Enterprises tasked with adjusting reflective sheets on solar sails...
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A Modest Proposal For Increased Diversity in D&D
A modest proposal to Wizards of the Coast: how about including a more diverse representation of ethnic background in your core product? You’re working on Dungeons & Dragons Next — some call it...
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A Message from John Sargent
Dear authors, illustrators and agents:Today the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Macmillan’s US trade publishing operation, charging us with collusion in the implementation of the agency...
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Reading Joanna Russ: The Hidden Side of the Moon (1988)
After the short collection of essays on sexuality and feminism, Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts (1985), comes Russ’s final collection of short fiction, The Hidden Side of the...
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Earth Unaware Sweepstakes!
The latest in the Ender Saga, Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston bring you the tale of the First Formic War — the fight that would bring the Battle School into being. We’ve got 10 ARC copies of Earth...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: The Bonehunters, Chapter Seven (Part Two)
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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Let’s Go To Space Jail!: Lockout
Something I weirdly kind of miss — to which Lockout (aka “Guy Pearce In Space Jail”) is a bit of a throwback — are the days when science-fiction and other genre films were a little disreputable. When...
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Farscape Rewatch: “DNA Mad Scientist”
“DNA Mad Scientist”Written by Tom Blomquist, birected by Andrew ProwseSeason 1, Episode 91st US Transmission Date: 18 June 19991st UK Transmission Date: 14 February 20001st Australian Transmission: 16...
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