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Benjamin Percy: 5 Books That Feed My Techno-Paranoia
Every time the hourglass or pinwheel icon appears on your screen, every time the hard drive chugs and whirs slowly, you wonder—have I been infected? When I visited that website or clicked that...
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Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon
When I was 16, in the summer of 1984, I made a vow that I would never read another novel as long as I lived. I was completely convinced that I hated books and the night of my final English “O” level...
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The Promise and Disappointment of Virtual Reality
Imagine that you and a group of friends are walking through a tunnel, carrying a variety of objects. A backpack. A vase. A toy spaceship. The cardboard cut-out of a dragon. The tunnel broadens, passing...
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Samuel Delany: “If You’re Going to Write Anything, Try to Take it Seriously”
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Can Speculative Short Fiction Really Work on TV?
We can really only handle our fictional dystopias in short-form; the world in 2018 is enough of a long-form dystopia for most of us. And the logic of a dystopian world doesn’t leave much room for any...
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet
Of all the things you can read on the internet, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is one of the only good ones. In perpetual conversation with itself, ever growing and expanding—perhaps threatening,...
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