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Cover of Snuff by Terry Pratchett, showing Vimes steering a boat, surrounded by chickens, in a chaotic scene.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Snuff, Part II

Turns out the old Summoning Dark comes in handy

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Cover art from Travis Baldree's Bookshops & Bonedust

Five SFF Bookstores and Libraries I’d Love to Browse

From cozy secondhand bookshops to massive multiversal libraries, here are five fictional places...

Cover of Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis, showing a moth or butterfly made of black, orange and purple random shapes, against a background with vertical green and white stripes.

Read an Excerpt From Lindsay Ellis’s Apostles of Mercy

The third novel in the alternate history/first contact Noumena series.

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Cover of Darker by Four by June CL Tan , showing three young people, one holding two pink glowing swords.

Magic, Death, and Bubble Tea: June C.L. Tan’s Darker by Four

A review of June CL Tan's new YA fantasy novel.

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Book cover of Richie Tankersley Cusick’s Starstruck

As Seen on TV?: The Watcher and Starstruck 

Sometimes the lines between reality and TV get a little too blurry.

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Illustration of an airship with three passengers aboard flying above a crowd of people. (From a postcard commemorating the Toledo airship's first successful flight, 1908)

Four Non-Fiction Subjects That Will Always Find an SFF Audience

Are you an SF author looking to branch out into non-fiction? Here are a few suggestions...

Selection from "A Wife" by John Everett Millais": Illustration of a woman weeping, kneeling at a desk with her head down near an open book.

In Search of Big Feelings

What book last reduced you to tears? What took your breath away or made your heart race?

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Cover of Lost Ark Dreaming, showing five derelict skyscrapers, four of them derelict, standing in water against a cloudy evening sky.

Drowned Worlds and High Rises: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

A review of Suyi Davies Okungbowa's new science fiction novella.

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Book cover of A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang

A Brutal and Beautiful Science-Fantasy: Revealing A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang

A powerfully imaginative, compelling story of a young woman seeking to save her family and her h...

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Cover of Immortal Pleasures by V. Castro , showing a female vampire against a dark background

A Visceral Trip, a Bloody History: V. Castro’s Immortal Pleasures

A review of V. Castro's new historical dark fantasy novel.

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Cover of Out There Screaming, showing a crinkled aluminum surface with three holes roughly shaped like eyes and a mouth, revealing a red surface underneath.

Weird and Unusual Security System Issues: Nnedi Okorafor’s “Dark Home”

On the streets of Nigeria you might meet just about anyone—or anything...

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