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Not Until We Get a Turn: Retellings, Tropes, and Who Gets To Tell Stories

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Star Trek Original Series Spock Mindmelds with Kirk
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Science Fiction

Two Is Better Than One: Mindmelding in Space

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Featured Essays
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Six Soap Opera Tropes in SFF

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Scream 2021
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Horror

Horror’s Ongoing Reckoning: The Final Girl Seizes Control of Her Story

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pencil sketch of a horse
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SFF Equines

Writing Horses: Sketching “The Mind Horse”

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Alien Ripley face
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Humor

“90% of Space is Crap” and Other Mixed-Up SFF Aphorisms

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first trailer for Shang-Chi, Simu Liu
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Shang-Chi

Shang-Chi: A Diasporic Love Letter to Asian Cinema

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Close-up venus fly trap
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Learning the Tropes

Learning the Tropes with Freya Marske: The Trees Want to Kill You

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90s teen horror novels by Christopher Pike
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Teen Horror Time Machine

Femme Fatales and Toxic Masculinity in Christopher Pike’s Die Softly and Master of Murder

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Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

We Need to Talk About Bucky Barnes’ Awful Date in Falcon and the Winter Soldier

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leia boushh disguise radical nostalgia appreciation
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Star Wars

Leia’s Bounty Hunter Disguise Brings My Favorite Fantasy Trope to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

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Painting of Moses as a baby holding Pharoah's crown
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Fantasy

The Flawed Fantasy of the Chosen One

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Cinderella Is Dead cover art by Manzi Jackson (courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing)
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Young Adult

Not Until We Get a Turn: Retellings, Tropes, and Who Gets To Tell Stories

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"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

Frank Herbert, Dune

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