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12 Unique Works of Fantasy That Are Hard To Put Down
Unique Fantasy: Our 12 Picks Title Author 1. Kra Aguidon 2. Wonderblood Julia Whicker 3. Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic Meghan Ciana Doidge 4. Haemans Nicoline Evans 5. The Devil In the Valley Castle Freeman Jr. 6. Anna Undreaming Thomas Welsh 7. The Winter Boy Sally Wiener Grotta 8. Illuminarium Truth Devour 9. Death Wishing Laura Ellen Scott 10. Kick John L. Monk 11. We Journey No More Sahara Foley 12.
20 Awesome Post-Apocalyptic Books from 2018
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The world felt like it ended in 2016. Then again in 2018. But if there’s one thing that speculative fiction reminds us, it’s that the world can end a thousand times, in a thousand different ways—and even when it does, human beings are capable of persevering and starting anew.
6 Science Fiction Books That Will Make You Want to Give Earth a Hug
The earth is in a constant state of change. Sometimes this change is gradual. Sometimes, it is sudden. Sometimes, it is catastrophic. And at least half the time, that change is man-made. In science fiction, these changes can be shifted, distorted, and taken to their logical extreme, creating terrifying natural disasters that serve as alarm bells to anyone paying attention.
Scientific Magic: Five Books That Reconnect Us to Astrology
Astrology is on the rise among millennials and post-millennials, arguably strange considering within the last two hundred years science has become an almost universally accepted paradigm. Perhaps this new interest constitutes a counter-reaction to the sway of science-as-truth, or maybe it’s a symptom of our uncertain times.
You're Gonna Die: 6 Almost Always Fatal Fictional Diseases
Achoo! You’ve probably just got a little case of the sniffles, but it might be “Captain Trips”: a mutant flu virus created in an Army bioweapons lab. Just watch out for these symptoms: extremely high fever, body aches, chills, swollen lymph nodes, pneumonia, delirium, and choking to death on your own phlegm. Questions? Just ask your neighbors: 99.4 percent of them will die from the virus, just like you.
Wonderblood
In the apocalyptic wasteland that used to be the United States, warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called “Bent Head” has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA’s space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice.
Atlas of Interest: On the Hidden Life of Marginalia
"We have all seized the white perimeter as our own," wrote Billy Collins in "Marginalia." (When I first read the poem, I dutifully scored the passage with a checkmark in my copy of Picnic, Lightning - surely a meta-marginal inscription if there ever was one.) Collins's words, jubilant, even triumphal, may strike the seasoned marginalist as overly dramatic, if not absurd; however, lest we forget, the tyranny of "the white perimeter" is not easily repealed in those whom it has been cultivated.
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