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Featured Essays

Author Martha Wells and the cover of the Mudrebot Diaries book Platform Decay
Featured Essays
Murderbot

Martha Wells on Platform Decay, Found Families, and What’s Next for Murderbot

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A still from the opening credits sequence of Wild Palms.
Featured Essays
cult classics

Dispatches From the State Perceptory: The Unruly Legacy of Wild Palms

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Devon and Maul fighting side by side, while Maul looks to Devon in conern in Maul - Shadow Lord S1 finale
Featured Essays
Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord

“They’re Friends!”: Queer Villainy in Maul — Shadow Lord

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Mathew Rhys sitting behind a desk in the Apple TV show Widow's Bay
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Widow's Bay

Widow’s Bay, Jaws, and the Terror of Municipal Monsters

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Dylan Hunt holding out some kind of ray gun in Genesis II
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Gene Roddenberry

The “Lost Years” That Led Gene Roddenberry Back To Star Trek

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Artist's concept of a Bernal Sphere space colony (Art by Rick Guidice)
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Science Fiction

Two Plot-Friendly Approaches to Generation Ships

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series art from Dimension 20: Gladlands
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Dimension 20

Imagining a More Caring Apocalypse in Dimension 20: Gladlands

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"Rocky" and Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) in Project Hail Mary
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Project Hail Mary

The Deep Humanity of Project Hail Mary

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detail from the cover of The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Books
Terri Windling

Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife Continues to Inspire

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Star Wars: A New Hope, Episode IV
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May the Fourth

The Sheer, Unbridled Joy of Star Wars

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Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) always finds the best possible light in Daredevil: Born Again.
Featured Essays
Daredevil: Born Again

Daredevil: Born Again and the Fascism of State Gangsters

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CGI Creature effects of Imhotep in The Mummy (1999)
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The Mummy

The Many Evolutions of the Cinematic Mummy

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“We are all stardust and stories.”

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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