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Ever since a certain video game was announced in 2012 and the eventual cluster of a release last year, the word cyberpunk has been on a lot of people’s lips and sparking a lot of questions (and Twitter debates with fanboys). What is cyberpunk and where did it come from? What makes something fit into

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The fantasy of manners has been a sub-genre of SFF (mostly in the F part of it, though you do see it in space opera as well) since the publishing of Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint and Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery and Cecilia: Or, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot. Normally it involves highly regimented social

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The U.S. is a lot more diversity-conscious today than we were back when our most beloved comic book characters were created. As a result, without intervention from modern showrunners, superhero adaptations would continue to reflect the dubious morals of bygone eras. Sometimes, this intervention results in the creation of new characters of color, like Arrow‘s

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In January of this year, I read 50 books. Then I did it again in February. Look, I read a lot. I’ve read somewhere in the realm of 250–300 books a year for the last few years. But this was excessive, even for me. Fifty books in a month! That’s about 1.6 books per day!

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Happy Mystery Month! May has been the month for showcasing a love of mystery, in part because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday falls on the 22nd. Whether your flavor of mystery is hardboiled, cozy, true crime, or more thriller, let’s celebrate Mystery Month with a roundup of sweet literary gifts for mystery lovers. Pins, Stickers,

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It is both a joke and true that my partner and I bought a garden with a house attached; while we love the house itself, which is a late 1800s row-home complete with transoms and original wood flooring, the garden was straight out of my dreams. When we first saw it, a squash vine had

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Since last March, I’ve been sheltering in place. Like so many people, I miss a lot. It’s been over 14 months since I hugged a friend, ate at a restaurant, cut my hair, flew on a plane with a paperback novel, or attended a reading then drank wine from a plastic cup while wandering aisles

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Now that macrame has come back into style, it’s brought with it a ton of interesting matching bookshelves. This boho style is often characterized by lots of plants, including ones displayed in hanging planters, so it makes sense that bookshelves in a similar style would follow after it. All these shelves are suspended: they hang

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