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Rooted in Majesty: 5 Novels Set in Real or Imagined National Parks

From isolated forests to vast canyons, here are 5 SFF works that explore national parks.

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2024

These ten stories explore the future in ways that will make you laugh out loud, roll your eyes,...

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Twelve Poems That Remix and Reimagine Fairy Tales

Inspired by classic fairy tales, these poets find endless ways of reshaping old fables into new...

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Read an Excerpt From Nicholas Belardes’s The Deading

A harrowing dystopian novel about the downward spiral of a seaside town that becomes infected by...

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Illustration of three women with glowing eyes; the central figure also has glowing markings on her skin, and lightning crackles behind her. From the cover of Tobi Ogundiran's In the Shadow of the Fall

5 Books Featuring Smaller West African Deities

From spider-tricksters to water goddesses, these deities are equally delightful, and terrifying,...

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Cover of Everything Good Dies Here by Djuna

Read an Excerpt From Djuna’s Everything Good Dies Here

A short story collection by pseudonymous author Djuna, whose writings and interventions into int...

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Cover of Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

Magic, Power, Money: Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

A review of Paolo Bacigalupi's new fantasy novel

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Book cover of Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea

On the Profound Importance of Ordinary Characters: Rejoicing in Brandon Sanderson’s Tress

Tress is an ordinary person—and she remains an ordinary person, even while helping others and fu...

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Illustration of a succubus and an orc standing back to back behind the counter of a coffee and pastry shop, from the cover of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes

Five Entertaining SFF Stories With Relatively Low Stakes

The whole world doesn't need to be in imminent danger for a story to be compelling, as these mor...

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