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This Chaotic, Confusing, Mad World
Jacob Babb reviews Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House.”
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert
To Touch the Dust of Anarres
Jonathan Bolton thoughtfully reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed” within and against the grain of a half century of criticism.
Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem
Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the End of Earnestness
Siobhan Maria Carroll reviews The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, edited by Hugh Howey.
What Do We Do With the Violence of Our Generation?
Mikaela Dery talks with Julia Kornberg about her new novel “Berlin Atomized.”
A Woman in the Captain’s Chair, Trump in the White House
Thirty years after its premiere, David K. Seitz revisits “Star Trek: Voyager” and its groundbreaking first woman captain.
Jacking In to Cyberpunk
Stina Attebery and Joshua Pearson explore the “Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema” exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
A Toxic Embrace
Aimee Hinds Scott reviews Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.”
The Éowyn Mystique
Gerry Canavan reviews Kenji Kamiyama’s animated film “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.”
The Screenwriter Strikes Back: Leigh Brackett in Hollywood
Maria San Filippo explores Leigh Brackett’s career as the screenwriter of “The Big Sleep,” “The Long Goodbye,” and “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Politics of the Blinding Light
Ximena Prieto reviews Vanessa Holyoak’s “I See More Clearly in the Dark.”
Dissecting the Present
Arbaz M. Khan reviews Alan Moore’s “The Great When: A Long London Novel.”
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