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Book Review: Dark City Rising by C. L. Jarvis
A promising vision, thwarted by an attempt to maintain strict historical accuracyDark City Rising is a story that piles up all my catnip features high and deep: Dark Academia, 18th century Glasgow and...
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The Acolyte: the polemical side of the Force
Canon exists to be reshuffled every once in a whileFrom the Star Wars prequels we learned that the so idolized Jedi were too drunk on their own importance to notice the falling dominoes until it was...
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024: A Shortlist Discussion
Awards Season is well upon us - we’ve had the results of the Nebulas, the Locus Awards and the BSFA, Hugo voting has just closed, we got an Ignyte shortlist just yesterday, and many other awards are in...
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Film Review: Kinds of Kindness
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Film Review: Longlegs
The scariest movie of the year so far delivers a tense and creepy 1990s-set serial killer procedural that plays out like a long episode of the X-files. (spoiler free)I saw Longlegs last Tuesday and I...
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Video Game Preview: Concord by Firewalk Studios
Sony's newest live-service game leaves much to be desired.The release of Overwatch turned a lot of heads in 2016 (and way fewer with the release of Overwatch 2 in 2022). Many clones were created in and...
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The Ignyte Award Shortlist 2024 - Selected Discussions
The Ignyte Awards have just announced their much anticipated 2024 shortlist, and it is, as ever, a fantastic set of nominees (not that we're biased from last year or anything). There's a huge amount...
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Book Review: Suyi Davies Okungbawa’s Lost Ark Dreaming
A novella that effortlessly slides from science fiction to elements of fantasy and mythology and allegory to tell a moderate near future story set off the coast of Nigeria.Yekini has a problem. She is...
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Microreview: Twisters
Strap in and get ready to cure tornadoes with a fun cast and some epic disaster special effectsWhen I recounted to my mom the plot of the new Twisters after I saw it, she said, "Oh, so it's exactly the...
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Film Review: Fly Me to the Moon
🎵 Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars... 🎵 My father has recalled to me how, just shy of five years old, he watched the first Moon landing on television. He was stunned at how he could...
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Book Review: Queen B by Juno Dawson
Returning to the world of HMRC for a Tudor throwback with a witchy, lesbian twistAnne Boleyn, historically accused of witchcraft—what if she really was a witch? I mean, you're not getting points for...
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TV Review: Supacell
The Black Heroes remake you didn’t know you needed—a bingeable adventure amidst larger social issuesSuperhero movies and television series have saturated theaters and streaming services lately, often...
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On how setting helps tell the story in Longlegs
The mise-en-scène is the messageThere’s a debate raging on obscure corners of the internet as to whether Nicolas Cage can act. Some think he’s a hack; I, for one, would like to point the doubters to...
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Book Review: A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon (translated by Anton Hur)
Magical girl manga meets millennial angstCW: discussion of character experiencing suicidal thoughts.I can't decide if this book is very deep or just very odd. It's quite possibly both.A Magical Girl...
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Book Review: The Naming Song
An innovative and intriguing post-apocalyptic fantasy exploring the power of wordsOur narrator does not have a name. This is somewhat unusual, but this is an unusual world. Our narrator and main...
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Book Review: The Mercy of Gods, by James S. A. Corey
Academic politics are finally given the respect they deserve, and all it took was aliens conquering the galaxy.As an old canard goes, academic politics are so bitter because the stakes are so small;...
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Book Review: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
The pain of ages haunts this houseOld homes can be unnerving. You know that people have spent years, even decades, in such places, and some part of your brain finds it plausible that the stories they...
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Video Game Review: Pentiment by Obsidian Entertainment
A beautifully painted Renaissance whodunit.I heard a positive, albeit quiet, buzz surrounding the release of Pentiment and was intrigued by its very existence. A new Obsidian story-based murder mystery...
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TV Review: Batman: Caped Crusader
A clever reinvention of the costumed crimefighter for the Defund the Police eraIf you loved Bruce Timm's legendary Batman: The Animated Series (and since you're human and alive, you definitely did),...
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Review: Harold and the Purple Crayon
A character who can create anything goes in search of his creatorThink of the character Harold in Stranger than Fiction, who learns his life has a narrator, and is desperate to go on living. Think of...
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