2018 Dragon Awards: Big-Name Winners and Little Controversy
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- September 3, 2018
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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 12: One More Decade0
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- December 31, 2019
Two centuries ago, Dr. John Polidori’s story “The Vampyre” was published, and vampire literature was born. The Vampyre’s Legacy series has charted the evolution of the genre over two hundred years, taking one story from each decade to use as a case study. But the most recent decade presents a problem: the period is still too
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Remembering Charlee Jacob: Dark as Ever0
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- December 26, 2019
“I want to be the woman in red,” says Grace to her tattooist. It is the latest step in her journey of transformation. Grace has tried dressing in red, adorning herself with an array of sanguine garments: “Rustling scarlet taffeta. Crimson velvet as thick and soft as bat flesh. Wine colored underthings clinging like guilt.”
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A Tarnished Legacy: The End of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress2
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- December 24, 2019
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress, the once-influential anthology series that was founded in 1984, saw its thirty-fourth and final instalment this year. The series managed to survive a number of significant setbacks: one was the death of original editor Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1999; another was publisher DAW dropping the series with the 2004
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Tres Dean: Professional Liker of The Rock0
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- December 20, 2019
Tres Dean is a writer whose words can be found at GQ, Paste, Syfy, Geek.com, IGN, and more. He writes about shoes, geeky things, pop culture, and now he’s writing about The Rock in his very first book. For Your Consideration: The Rock from Quirk Books is a collection of essays exploring Dwayne “The Rock”
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Orphan Black: The Next Chapter Brings Back Our Clone Club Faves0
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- December 17, 2019
A thrilling, if not entirely fulfilling, addition to the canon of the show, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter succeeds on an emotional level while adding a lot of — perhaps too many? — layers to the scientific conspiracies that led us here.
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A Book Fair for Grownups from Penguin Random House0
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- December 10, 2019
In Midtown Manhattan last month, the publisher Penguin Random House hosted a Book Fair for Grownups. Themed loosely on the elementary school book fairs many of us may remember from our childhood, the event was a little bit like returning to childhood, but also had a club atmosphere with a line of people outside waiting
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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate
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- January 20, 2020
Baen Wins Big at the 2019 Dragon Awards
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- September 2, 2019
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