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    A Map of Future Ruins

    A Map of Future Ruins has two main threads: Lauren Markham's travels to Greece to investigate the roots of her family, who emigrated to the United States three generations earlier, and the burning of ...

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    Classical Culture and White Nationalism

    The hands of history have reshaped the Greek past for centuries, sculpting it into an idealized version credited with birthing a myriad of ideas and concepts, notably identity. Certain ...

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    The Tainted Cup

    Speculative fiction author Robert Jackson Bennett makes his first foray into mystery novels with The Tainted Cup, a top-notch police procedural set in an unnamed world little like our own. On this ...

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    A Brief History of the Police Procedural

    As most will know, a mystery novel is one that starts off with a conundrum – someone has been killed, something or someone has gone missing – and proceeds along a logical path until ...

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    The Warm Hands of Ghosts

    "Was remembered agony better than feeling nothing at all?" This open question from protagonist Laura Iven is at the epicenter of Katherine Arden's war-torn The Warm Hands of Ghosts.

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    Canadian Nurses in World War I

    Katherine Arden's The Warm Hands of Ghosts, in addition to focusing on the violence and trauma of the World War I trenches, is also about the female nurses who treated wounded soldiers. ...

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    You Glow in the Dark

    Somewhere Ray Bradbury is smiling. With this beautiful and brutal collection, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, Liliana Colanzi cements her well-deserved place in the world of dystopian ...

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    The Goiania Accident

    In the title story of You Glow in the Dark, scrap metal scavengers uncover a strange glowing capsule in the ruins of an abandoned hospital. Dazzled by the beautiful blue particles that glow in the...

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    Snowglobe

    The world has become a frozen wasteland and sixteen-year-old Jeon Chobahm's only relief from the bitter cold comes in the form of her favorite reality show, Goh Around, which focuses on the daily life...

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    Fan Culture and Parasocial Relationships

    For those living in the dystopian world of Soyoung Park's Snowglobe, the main source of entertainment is reality television shot within a climate-controlled dome. The lives of the actors on these ...

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    Ilium

    Let me confess that I don't watch a lot of spy movies or read spy novels because the plots are too much to keep up with. Please consider that information an extra endorsement for Ilium by Lea ...

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    Escape and Evasion Maps

    In Lea Carpenter's Ilium, some of the spies have escape and evasion maps. Also known as escape maps or silk maps, these are scarves imprinted with maps that intelligence officers and soldiers have ...

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