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ESSAY: Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland

January 17, 2025

This year marks the 160th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was originally published in 1865. Very few works of English-language children’s literature have had such a lifespan. 2025 also marks the 160th anniversaries of Mary Papes Dodge’s Hans ...

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WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition

December 30, 2024

We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out!

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ESSAY: How Naomi Kritzer’s Science Fiction Strips Away Cyberspace

December 26, 2024

We have entered an era of AI slop. Periodicals are struggling with floods of submissions cooked up by ChatGPT rather than human imaginations, while readers downloading ebooks from Amazon are faced with the possibility of their latest purchase being the churned-out product of AI masquerading as ...

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REVIEW: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory is a Space Opera for Today

December 20, 2024

Humanity has lost a war with the majoda, an interplanetary association united by an artificial intelligence called the Wisdom. Earth has been destroyed, and a space station called Gaea now houses a remnant of humanity in a rigid militaristic society. Valkyr, teenage niece of the station’s ...

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A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Mid Eighties!

December 13, 2024

In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Archer’s Goon, The Skiver’s Guide, and Fire and Hemlock! I was especially excited to read The Skiver’s Guide, which I had never read before! And (so far) Archer’s Goon remains my favorite ...

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A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Early 1980s!

November 22, 2024

In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read The Magicians of Caprona, The Time of the Ghost, The Homeward Bounders, and Witch Week! This month’s reading was a roller coaster, as it included the book I consider the scariest of Diana Wynne ...

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2024 Ignyte Awards: The Saint of Bright Doors & Kill Your Darlings Among Winners

November 11, 2024

Friday, 8 November saw the presentation of the fifth annual Ignyte Awards. Originally attached to the virtual convention FIYAHCON, these awards, which celebrate science fiction, fantasy, and horror by diverse creators, have continued to take place every year despite the convention being on ...

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A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Late 1970s!

November 8, 2024

In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Charmed Life, Drowned Ammet, and The Spellcoats! Charmed Life is the first in the Chrestomanci series, and I found it fun to revisit the introduction to that world and family. Drowned Ammet and The ...

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WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition

October 31, 2024

Cozying down into fall, we here at WWAC have been indulging both in books with really interesting things to say about gender, and as usual, books across the speculative fiction spectrum. Everything from horror stories to sweet, queer retellings of Arthuriana, we’re enjoying it all!

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ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Four Faces of American Vampirism

October 31, 2024

Some readers may feel that, so far, the stories covered in this series on nineteenth-century American vampire literature have shown an insufficient quantity of fangs. The first part covered stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Ambrose Bierce that dealt with the theme of the ...

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ESSAY: Alices: Lewis Carroll in Wonderland

WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition

ESSAY: How Naomi Kritzer’s Science Fiction Strips Away Cyberspace

REVIEW: Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory is a Space Opera for Today

A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Mid Eighties!

A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Early 1980s!

2024 Ignyte Awards: The Saint of Bright Doors & Kill Your Darlings Among Winners

A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The Late 1970s!

WWAC Reads Books! Supernatural Gender Edition

ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Four Faces of American Vampirism

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