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Five Books About...

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Books
Five Books About

Five Books Where Time Can’t Be Trusted

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detail from the cover of Samantha Sotto Yambao's The Elsewhere Express (Art by Haylee Morice)
Books
Five Books About

Five SFF Books That Pair Heavy Topics With a Heap of Whimsy

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detail from the cover of Allison Saft's A Fragile Enchantment (Art by Kelly Chong)
Books
Five Books About

Five Fantasy Books Featuring Class Difference Romance

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Detail from the cover of A Cruel Thirst
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Romantasy

For the Love of Cinnamon Rolls: Five Romantasy Books With Sweet Love Interests

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Books
reading recommendations

Bears in the Woods: Eight SFF/H books with Ursine Characters

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detail from the cover of A Philosophy of Thieves
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heists

Six High Tech Heists That Defy the Odds

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Photo of a decorative white skull sitting on top of a book
Books
Five Books About

Treading the Veil: Five Books Featuring Encounters With Death and the Dead

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Books
Five Books About

Five Books With the Worst and Weirdest Office Jobs

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detail from the cover of The Splinter in the Sky
Books
Five Books About

Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling

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Detail from the cover of Bitterblue; art by Kuri Huang
Books
Five Books About

Five SFF Books With Abilities You Absolutely Do Not Want

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Photo of a red masquerade eye mask, red beaded necklaces, and glitter heart decorations
Books
romance

Five Fantasy Books Where the Love Interest’s Face Is Hidden

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Images from three SFF-adjacent video games: Blue Prince, Strange Horticulture, and Mass Effect
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video games

Five Video Games for Every Type of SFF Reader

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Mark As Read

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Books
Mark as Read

The Specific Experience of Being Stuck on a Book

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Featured Essays
Mark as Read

What Do You Want to Know About a Book Before You Read It?

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Photo of an open book with its central pages folded in to form a heart
Books
Mark as Read

It’s Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love

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Albanian postal stamp with an illustration of two children standing on either side of a stack of books
Books
Mark as Read

Your To-Be-Read Pile Might Be Lying to You

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Logo of the Hugo Awards against a background photo of space
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Mark as Read

Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here’s How

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Books
Holiday Cheer

The Art of Buying Books for Other People

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Portrait de Marguerite (The Reader) by Henri Matisse, 1906
Books
Mark as Read

What Keeps You Reading?

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Photo of tall bookshelves in the Trinity College library
Books
Mark as Read

The Accidental Completionist

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Books
Mark as Read

There Comes a Time in Every Reader’s Life When You Have to Move the Books

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Mark as Read

Form, Function, and the Sentences We Collect

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Painting of a bearded man hunched over a desk or table, reading a paper with his right hand to his forehead
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Mark as Read

(It’s Not) The Death of Criticism (Again)

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Books
Mark as Read

We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks

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Science Fiction Film Club

Sam Rockwell in Moon (2009)
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Science Fiction Film Club

Moon: The Lonely Life of a Man on the Moon

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Edward Judd as Arnold Bedford and Lionel Jeffries as Joseph Cavor in First Men in the Moon (1964)
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Science Fiction Film Club

First Men in the Moon: Old-Fashioned Victoriana for the Space Age

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Science Fiction Film Club

Destination Moon: Both a Small Step and a Giant Leap for Sci Fi Cinema

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Woman in the Moon (1929)
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Science Fiction Film Club

Woman in the Moon: Climb Aboard a Rocket and Launch Sci Fi Cinema into Space!

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Scarlett Johansson as an alien in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin
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Science Fiction Film Club

Under the Skin: A Brilliant and Disturbing Alien Point of View

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Uldis Pūcītis as Inspector Peter Glebsky in Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
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Science Fiction Film Club

Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel: A Disorienting Twist on the Classic Locked-Room Mystery

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David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Science Fiction Film Club

The Man Who Fell to Earth: A Provocative Contemplation of Corruption and Despair

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A scene from Man Facing Southeast (1987)
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Science Fiction Film Club

Man Facing Southeast: An Alien Perspective on Humanity’s Madness

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Peter Weller in RoboCop (1987)
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Science Fiction Film Club

RoboCop: A Glorious, Scathing Satire of America

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Sean Connery in Outland
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Science Fiction Film Club

Outland: Bringing the Wild West to Outer Space

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Tom Cruise as John Anderton in Minority Report (2002)
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Science Fiction Film Club

Minority Report: Casting a Wary Eye on the Future of Crime Fighting

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Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky in Mad Max (1979)
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Science Fiction Film Club

Mad Max: An Australian Road Fable for an Ultraviolent World

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The SFF Bestiary

detail from the cover of Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
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SFF Bestiary

Classic Fantasy Felines: Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams

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detail from the cover of Into the Wild, the first book in the Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter
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SFF Bestiary

Warrior Ethos, Cat Style: Erin Hunter’s Warriors: Into the Wild

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Image from KPop Demon Hunters featuring Derpy Tiger and Sussie Bird
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SFF Bestiary

The Power of a Cute Animal Sidekick

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So-yeon (Park Min-young) holds a white cat in the 2011 Korean horror film The Cat
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SFF Bestiary

A Feline Haunting: The Quiet Horror of The Cat

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detail from the cover of The Space Between by Corinna Bechko and Danny Luckert
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SFF Bestiary

Cats (and Other Pets) in Space: Corinna Bechko & Danny Luckert’s The Space Between

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Books
SFF Bestiary

Don’t You Dare Call Princess Donut a Sidekick

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SFF Bestiary

Sentience, Sapience, and Animal Intelligence

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Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) holds Goose, an alien that looks like a ginger cat
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SFF Bestiary

Stop Running and Let the Flerkens Eat You

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Data (Brent Spiner) holds his cat Spot in Star Trek: The Next Generation
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SFF Bestiary

The Wisdom of Star Trek’s Spot

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Close-up of an orange cat portraying "Jonesy" in Alien
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SFF Bestiary

Jonesy Versus the Big Bad: Cat Power in the Alien Franchise

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Painting of approximately 40 cats arranged in a studio.
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SFF Bestiary

Cat Lore: Colors and Personality

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SFF Bestiary

Space Lions With Cattitude: C.J. Cherryh’s The Pride of Chanur

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Seeds of Story

cover of More Everything Forever by Adam Becker

The Tech Billionaires Who Want to Pave Over the Universe: Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever

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cover of Josephine Quinn's How the World Made the West

Elephants, Alphabets, and Ice Ages: Josephine Quinn’s How the World Made the West

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cover of The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker

Saying “Hello” to Elephants and “Come Back Here” to Coral Reefs: Karen Bakker’s The Sounds of Life

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cover of Dan Davies’ The Unaccountability Machine

Terrible Bosses, Evil Corporations, and Paperclip Maximizers: Dan Davies’ The Unaccountability Machine

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Artist's conception of a pulsed nuclear fission propulsion system from Project Orion

Not in My Atmosphere! — The Pitfalls of Project Orion

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cover of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C Scott

The Omnipotent Eye Versus the Neighborhood: James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State

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cover of A History of the World in 50 Pieces by Tom Service

Egalitarian Operas, Stolen Melodies, and Whalesong: Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces

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cover of Robert Macfarlane's Is A River Alive?

From Cloud Forests to Toxic Trampolines: Robert Macfarlane’s Is A River Alive?

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cover of Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

Infernal Gravity and the Logic of Death Scenes: Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance

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cover of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

There Is No “Now”: Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time

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cover of Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson

Fridge Phobia and the Invention of Boiling: Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork

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cover of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Wengrow and Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything Isn’t Always Right, But Is Always Interesting

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Martha Wells Book Club

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Martha Wells Book Club: The Murderbot Short Stories

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Martha Wells Book Club: System Collapse

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cover of Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Martha Wells Book Club: Fugitive Telemetry

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cover of Network Effect by Martha Wells

Martha Wells Book Club: Network Effect

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Martha Wells Book Club: Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy

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Martha Wells Book Club: Artificial Condition

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The Martha Wells Book Club: All Systems Red

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Martha Wells Book Club: The Emilie Adventures

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Cover of Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells

Martha Wells Book Club: Wheel of the Infinite

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Cover of City of Bones by Martha Wells

The Martha Wells Book Club: City of Bones

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Cover of Stories of the Raksura Volume Two by Martha Wells

The Martha Wells Book Club: Stories of the Raksura

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Cover of Martha Wells' The Harbor of Suns

The Martha Wells Book Club: The Harbors of the Sun

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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 “Strange Relations”
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Strange Relations”

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Allan in Babylon 5 "Learning Curve"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Learning Curve”

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Bo (Lawrence LeJohn) and Mack (Raymond O’Connor) in Babylon 5 "A View From the Gallery"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “A View from the Gallery”

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Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5 "The Paragon of Animals"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “The Paragon of Animals”

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Mollari holds a liquor bottle in Babylon 5 "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari”

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John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) is sworn in as President of the Interstellar Alliance in Babylon 5 "No Compromises"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “No Compromises”

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Sheridan in Babylon 5 "Rising Star"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: Fourth Season Overview

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Newlyweds Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5 "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”

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Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5 "Rising Star"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Rising Star”

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Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) in Babylon 5 "Endgame"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Endgame”

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Garibaldi in Babylon 5 "Between the Darkness and the Light"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Between the Darkness and the Light”

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Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) under interrogation in Babylon 5 "Intersections in Real Time"
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Babylon 5 Rewatch

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “Intersections in Real Time”

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Necessary Whimsy

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Necessary Whimsy

Humor, Healing, and Cozy Books to Build a Nest In

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Necessary Whimsy

Suggested Reads for Heart-Eyed Romance Fans and Chocolate-Hungry Gollums

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Art from the cover of Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, depicting wild hogs pulling a sleigh through the night sky above a wintry landscape; illustration by Josh Kirby
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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Wintry Reads for Hibernating Goblins

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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Stop and Smell the Flowers With Pouty Wizards and Centaur Baristas

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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Fight the February Blues With Comics and Bloody Good Fun

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Art from Kate Beaton's The Princess and the Pony
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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Grumpy Chickens and Other Fun Ways to Escape the Hectic Holidays

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Detail from the paperback cover of My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (Art by Hugh Fleming)
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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Vampire Bunnies and Other Weird-But-Fun Halloween Reads

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detail from the cover of The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Art by Viktor Koen)
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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Combatting Book Shame and the End of the World

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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Hippos, Zombies, Ballroom Dance, and Dragon Vomit

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detail from the cover of Kim & Kim: This Glamorous High-Flying Rock Star Life (Art by Eva Cabrera)
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Necessary Whimsy

Necessary Whimsy: Fun, Funny Comfort Reads for the SFF Soul

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Reading the Weird

cover of Neurotica: Poems by Maxwell Gold

The Same Thing I Do Every Night: Poetry by Maxwell Gold

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cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

If NOT CAT Then NOT VAMPIRE: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 4)

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cover of Fungi, an anthology edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Who, What, Where, When, Huh??? Jeff VanderMeer’s “Corpse Mouth and Spore Nose”

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You Are What You Eat: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 3)

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The Yolk’s on You: Carmen Maria Machado’s “Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa”

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cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Choosing Your Words Carefully: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 2)

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cover of "The Nolmyna" by David Erik Nelson

Beware the Flat-Pack Furniture: David Erik Nelson’s “The Nölmyna”

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cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Letters That Eat Through the Paper: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Part 1)

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cover of Bright Dead Star by Caitlin R Kiernan

We Should Have Asked for Directions: Caitlin R. Kiernan’s “A Travelogue for Oneironautics”

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Cover of Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A Snyder

Plan B From Outer Space: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 11)

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The Magnificent Vanishing Act of the Mountains of Madness: K.M. Tonso’s “Last Rites”

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Cover of Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A Snyder

Livestream Like it’s the End of the World: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 10)

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Anime Spotlight

Image from the anime series Dorohedoro
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Anime Spotlight

Dorohedoro: The Unlikely Joys of a Fetid Wonderland

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Major Motoko Kusanagi in the anime film Ghost in the Shell
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Anime Spotlight

30 Years of Soul-Searching at Ghost in the Shell: The Exhibition

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Anime Spotlight

Aria: The Glorious Mundanity of a Terraformed Planet

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Promo image from the anime series Ya Boy Kongming, depicting the two central characters: Kongming, a tactician from ancient China, and Eiko, a modern aspiring singer.
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Anime Spotlight

Stratagems for Uplifting the Downtrodden With Ya Boy Kongming!

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Image from the anime series Bakemonogatari
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Anime Spotlight

Country Fears, City Fears: How Setting Shapes Horror Anime

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Magical Princess Minky Momo
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Anime Spotlight

Earthquakes, Magical Girls, and Modern Mythology: The Death of Minky Momo

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Image from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
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Anime Spotlight

Frieren Offers Timeless Life Lessons From a Tired Mage

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Image from the anime series Hell's Paradise
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Anime Spotlight

Beast Humane, Beauty Grotesque: The Compelling Contradictions of Hell’s Paradise

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Image from anime series Kowloon Generic Romance: two figures kiss in a dark alley
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Anime Spotlight

But Thinking Makes It So: The Gutting Genius of Kowloon Generic Romance

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Image from The End of Evangelion: the head of the Angel Lilith appears on the horizon
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Anime Spotlight

There Is Always More to Say: Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Images from three sports anime series: Tamayomi, Umamusume: Pretty Derby, and Salaryman’s Club
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Anime Spotlight

Anime Grab Bag: There’s No Crying in Horse-Girl Racing!

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Kamaji, a spider-like spirit in Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away
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Anime Spotlight

A Spider’s Unsung Industry: Appreciating Kamaji of Spirited Away

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Reading The Wheel of Time

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Reading The Wheel of Time: Verin and Tuon Deal with Ta’veren Nonsense inThe Gathering Storm (Part 21)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Rand Contemplates Death and Nynaeve Makes a Discovery in The Gathering Storm (Part 20)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Rand and Gawyn Ask Questions About Loyalty in The Gathering Storm (Part 19)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Mat and Company Encounter a Terrifying Town in The Gathering Storm (Part 18)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Aviendha Comes into her Own in The Gathering Storm (Part 17)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Gawyn and Bryne Reunite, and Sheriam Receives Orders in The Gathering Storm (Part 16)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Rand Experiences the Last Loss in The Gathering Storm (Part 15)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Mat, Perrin, and Faile Contemplate Marriage and Duty in The Gathering Storm (Part 14)

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Cover of The Gathering Storm

Reading The Wheel of Time: Tuon Listens to her Truthspeaker and Tries New Tactics in The Gathering Storm (Part 13)

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Front Lines and Frontiers

cover of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door

New Wrinkles in Time: A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle

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cover of Federation by H Beam Piper

Colonialism and Conquest: Federation by H. Beam Piper, edited by John F. Carr

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cover of The Luminous Fairies and Mothra

A Nurturing Kaiju: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra

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cover of First Landing by Robert Zubrin

Mars or Bust! — First Landing by Robert Zubrin

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cover of The Big Lifters by Dean Ing

Making Cargo Hauling Exciting: The Big Lifters by Dean Ing

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cover of Time Tunnel by Murray Leinster

Episodic Adventures Through Time and Space: Time Tunnel and Timeslip! by Murray Leinster

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cover of the 50th Anniversary Edition of A Wrinkle in Time

From Camazotz to Stranger Things: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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cover of Way Station by Clifford D Simak

The Loneliest Vigil: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

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cover of The Deep Range by Arthur C Clarke

Under the Sea: The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke

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cover of Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh

Warfare and Survival: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh

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Cover of The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (Signet Books, 1977)

An Imperfect Crime: The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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cover of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Book That Brought Back the Dinosaurs: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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Superhero Movie Rewatch

Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) in The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

Fourth Time’s the Charm? — The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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Close-up of Superman (David Corenswet) with an angry mob behind him in Superman (2025)
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“People were going to die!” — Superman (2025)

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Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in Thunderbolts*
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“We’re all losers, and we lost” — Thunderbolts*

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Screenshot from Captain America: Brave New World, showing Captain America from the back with wings spread.
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You’re not Steve Rogers!” — Captain America: Brave New World

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven in Kraven the Hunter
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You are nothing”— Kraven the Hunter

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Tom Hardy as Venom in Venom: The Last Dance
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Aliens suck!” —  Venom: The Last Dance

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Jack Kesy as Hellboy in Hellboy: The Crooked Man
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Forgiven don’t mean forgotten” — Hellboy: The Crooked Man

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Lady Gaga as Harleen Quinzel and Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie a Deux
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You have a joke for us today?” — Joker: Folie à Deux

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Bill Skarsgård as Eric/The Crow in The Crow (2024)
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“There’s nothing there but here” — The Crow (2024)

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Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in Deadpool & Wolverine
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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“You were always the wrong guy” — Deadpool & Wolverine

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Close-up of Night Man in his superhero costume, featuring a black rubber cowl with one red eyepiece
Movies & TV
Superhero Movie Rewatch

“I cannot place my life in the hands of a saxophone player!” — Night Man

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Cassandra Web (Dakota Johnson) in a promotional image for Madame Web
Movies & TV
Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Now you’re really showing off” — Madame Web

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Close Reads

Gandalf standing alone in Rings of Power, season 2 episode 2
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Close Reads

Gandalf and the Search for One’s True Name

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A scene from Star Wars: The Acolyte; Mother Aniseya (Jodie Turner-Smith) and Koril (Margarita Levieva) stand with the rest of the coven.
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Close Reads

A Gentle Request for More Witches in Star Wars

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Cover of Herman Melville's Redburn with cover art by Edward Gorey
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Close Reads

Illustrating the Subtext: Edward Gorey’s Homoerotic Cover Art for Melville’s Redburn

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Alicent (Olivia Cooke) stands with King Viserys (Paddy Considine) in the midst of his model of Old Valyria in House of the Dragon.
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Close Reads

A Eulogy for House of the Dragon’s Model of Old Valyria

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Cassandra Webb attends a baby shower and tries to lighten the mood.
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madame web

The One Truly Great Scene in Madame Web

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Close Reads

Chaos Under the Corset: When Romance Covers Hide Revolution

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Close Reads

We Could Be “Eggheads”: Sliders and the Celebrity of Smart

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