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MacArthur Fellow Cormac McCarthy is one of those rare writers who has managed to perch on the fence between literary and popular fame. Helped in no small part by the brilliant film adaptations of his novels No Country for Old Men and The Road, McCarthy’s books have found a broader audience than they …
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If your social media includes a few literary types, you’re probably already aware of ‘17776’, the digital short story written by Jon Bois. Composed of twenty-five chapters ‘transmitted’ from July 5th to July 15th, the sci-fi story uses text, sequential art, short videos, and music to tell a …
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Ships and spaceships are staples of historical fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi. It’s hard to think of Star Trek without picturing the crew on the famous bridge of the USS Enterprise, or Peter Pan and Captain Hook clashing swords without the Jolly Roger. More than just a means of transportation, the …
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Only a decade ago, the shared universe was a rare flower – the province of only a few artists and, even then, rarely explored to its fullest potential. Now, it’s hard to name a movie studio that isn’t launching some kind of shared universe, from Marvel’s ‘cinematic universe’, in which characters …
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In the Rick and Morty episode, ‘Something Ricked This Way Comes’, slovenly super genius Rick Sanchez casually builds a tiny robot at the breakfast table. “What is my purpose?” the robot asks him, seconds after its creation. “Pass the butter,” Rick replies. The robot completes the task, then …
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Nothing gets a reader to love a book quite so much as getting them to engage with it. Passive readers experience a story and move on, but engaged readers mull over the plot, theorize about character motivations, and fantasize about paths not taken (sometimes enough to write them), all while the …
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