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Melanie Gillman 's Other Ever Afters  is a cute collection of graphic short stories. Maybe fables? They are not as heavy-handed as tradi...

I adored Maria Dahvana Headley 's Beowulf  and was curious to read her earlier novel, The Mere Wife , which draws on the story of Beowul...

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question (previously 2019 ). What is the most useless technology ever invented? By popula...

  Wolfwalkers is an animated film from the same director as The Secret of Kells . It has a similar sort of art and line style, with movemen...

T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones is a novel in a genre I don't like --- maybe "haunted gothic American mid-South"? --- an...

Dear readers, If you can read this, then an incredibly unlikely sequence of steps has succeeded. Huzzah! There is currently some sort of...

Charles Stross ' overtures to the Laundry universe continue in The Concrete Jungle , joined with The Atrocity Archives ( previously ) ...

Elizabeth Bear 's Pinion tells the story of people on a shipwrecked generational starship, and their struggles with each other and the s...

For the convenience and delight of local children, Santa's appearances on the Champs Elysées are prescheduled and at a fixed location. ...

I live a life of sumptuous luxury. (Alternating with canny poverty, so that it all averages out.) Last night was a brief dart into the extra...

Le Tout Nouveau Testament ( The Brand New Testament ) is a film nicely established by its first line: "God is real, and he lives in Br...

Reading a book by Charles Stross is like having my brain gently massaged by a socially well-adjusted hybrid of Neal Stephenson and Cory Do...

These funky buildings in northern Toronto are curved in a way that looks vaguely human and alive. As one drives on the highways appro...

Merry Christmas, says the piranahmoose! Joy, absurdism, holiday lights, a delightful hat, and rows of sharp teeth that can rend flesh fro...

Merry Christmas! I hope you are enjoying a vacation day, wherever you are, in whatever way you most prefer. Even cultural institutions as i...

This is a bizarre mannequin is the eldrich, strange stuff of modern Lovecraftian nightmares. I do not understand how a naked ornament-headed...

Why be nice to your mother? Mother: "It's interest on the uterine rent!" Father: "I don't think you're paying dow...

Real rabbits don't have ovipositors, although the Easter bunny, with his proclivities for walking like a human, chocolate, and hiding ca...