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Archetypes and Prophecy in The Burning White by Brent Weeks
Apparently, I love Brent Weeks. I don’t remember preordering The Burning White, but when it appeared in my eReader, I pushed aside any review copies I had lying around and started to escape. The final book in The lightbringer Series,… Read More ›
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Troop Zero Disappoints Even As It Is Adorable
The advertisements for the film TROOP ZERO seem to be a melange of other films’ influences, with quirky Wes Anderson notes, hints of BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, and the lo-fi, indie sensibility that suggests a new kind of movie… Read More ›
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Coming Soon to our Backers…
The final table of contents for our upcoming anthology, Way of the Laser, Future Crime Stories, is finally ready for everyone to know. We’re terrifically excited to share these stories with you. We did have some shuffling and reshuffling in our… Read More ›
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Breaking: Ad Astra Exec Confirms Brad Pitt Cast as The Vampire Louis to Traverse Space
By Emilia Barrett Speaking on condition of anonymity at a three martini breakfast, a former casting exec recalled the events leading to the studio’s pursuit of Brad Pitt for the role. “It had such a boring inner monologue of a… Read More ›
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As we get close to the finish line on our first big project
Thank you for your patience with us while we are pushing through the production of our first, big anthology! I’m sure you recall the successful Kickstarter campaign? Well, we’re nearly there, now. We are putting all the last pieces together,… Read More ›
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30 Issues of Strange Fiction, 3-Lobed Burning Eye rarely disappoints
There’s this publication that’s been pushing along, mostly without major critical appreciation and mostly without awards for 30 issues, now, and it is always an interesting and unexpected thing, with stories that range from fantasy to horror to science fiction… Read More ›
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“The Pale King” Revisited
“Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it’s interesting.” ― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King Tax season is upon us. Already, forms are arriving in the mail, and… Read More ›
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Elmer’s Epic Job Placement Service for Non-Traditional Workers #28
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Skynet is gone. Legion has taken over.
I have a lot of things in my head right now. I’m teaching books that aren’t easy to leave at the door: Maus, a book about the Holocaust, and The Things They Carried, which if you don’t know is one… Read More ›
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“Advantageous” directed by Jennifer Phang is a stark, feminist gaze upon body transfer and corporate dystopia
“That was an opportunity I didn’t want to pass up, because who funds short sci-fi about women’s issues?” – Jennifer Phang, interviewed for Wired about Advantageous So, I discovered this quiet, little gem of a film in the Netflix backlog.It… Read More ›
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The Way of the Laser Pre-order
March 30, 2020
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Nazis Were Never This Clever, Al Pacino Always Was
March 23, 2020
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and the end of the world
March 16, 2020
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Archetypes and Prophecy in The Burning White by Brent Weeks
February 21, 2020