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On Letting Go of the Idea of “Keeping Up”

“So, what have you read lately?” It sounds like an innocent question, but it came with a pile of...

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Erewhon Announces Where I End by Sophie White — Read an Exclusive Excerpt Here!

A young woman falls into a dark obsession after a new artist and her baby arrive on her small Ir...

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Cover of Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho

Read an Excerpt From Elaine U. Cho’s Ocean’s Godori

Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this Korean space opera about a disgraced space pilot struggling...

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the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore

Arkady Martine in Singapore: On Sci-Fi City Planning and What Makes a “City of the Future”

A discussion of futuristic cities and architecture as inspiration for science fiction.

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Cover of Out There Screaming, an anthology of Black Horror from Jordan Peele

To Catch a Monster: Rebecca Roanhorse’s “Eye and Tooth”

Humans are often more monstrous than the monsters...

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Prestige Creates a Permission Structure for Experimentation

Thoughts on literary snobbery, creative experimentation, and how our preconceptions shape our re...

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Erewhon Announces Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotière — Read an Exclusive Excerpt Here!

A sweeping, multicultural family story about the lasting impacts of colonialism, Catholicism, an...

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Book cover of The Dark Descent horror anthology

The Show Will Go On: “The Swords” by Robert Aickman

A rather blunt metaphor drives the young narrator's disturbing descent into an existential hell...

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A collection of 9 book covers from author Vernor Vinge

A Brief Guide to the Fiction of Vernor Vinge

From his earliest novels to his magnum opus, Vinge crafted inventive, insightful works of hard s...

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Erewhon Announces rekt by Alex Gonzalez — Read an Exclusive Excerpt Here!

rekt traces a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here.

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