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Trump supporters are missing the point of this provocative magazine cover

It’s a picture that speaks a thousand words.

Creative Bloq

"I heard Portishead’s Dummy on the radio and thought to myself: ‘I can make that'": Air's Moon Safari is 25 years old, but still sounds like it will be made in 25 years' time. Here's the story of the greatest chillout album ever

And why you should see them play the whole album live this year…

MusicRadar

7 Great Horror Short Stories That Deserve Their Own Frightening Movie Or TV Adaptation

These short horror stories would make great movies or TV shows.

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Michael Bishop obituary

Experimental science fiction writer who looked to distant worlds and ages to address eternal human concerns

The Guardian - UK

Joanne Harris: ‘When I first read Ulysses I hated it with a passion’

The Chocolat author on the magic of Ray Bradbury, beating Ulysses fatigue, and the poetry of Wuthering Heights

The Guardian - UK

Will the planet outlive my dying laptop?

I may be in denial about my computer being on the blink, but after another hot and muggy Halloween, one thing is frighteningly clear

The Guardian - UK

"Dumb Donald": How beers became partisan

As our country becomes more overtly partisan, so do the beer labels

Salon

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To see or not to see: Edinburgh fringe’s startling plays about perception

Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways

The Guardian - UK

One of the OG System Shock's devs is streaming the remake: 'We see our feet, never coulda done that in 1994'

Marc LeBlanc was a longtime Looking Glass employee who worked on System Shock and Thief.

PC Gamer

Grief is a distant planet: Sci-fi & dad

From Madeleine L'Engle to Ray Bradbury, sci-fi favorites from childhood help me make sense of my sorrowful present

Salon

The big idea: what if censoring books only makes them more popular?

From Lady Chatterley’s Lover to novels about trans children, attempts to suppress works of literature tend to have the opposite effect

The Guardian - UK

Best nonfiction of 2022: Great books that will make you think

Ray Bradbury once wrote that books are dangerous because reading them can lead you to change your mind. That danger is also what makes a good book such a delight to read. In compiling this year’s list of the best nonfiction, I’ve borne Bradbury’s admonition in mind. The volumes I’ve…

Tribune News Service

Stop Spazzing Out About 'Spaz'

Social media, streaming, and a new era of digital self-censorship

Reason

James Cameron on 'Avatar,' expectations and maybe diving Lake Superior

James Cameron has beat the odds, he's beat the naysayers and he's beat himself. But he couldn't beat COVID-19.

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The Guardian - UK

Top 10 horror short stories

With Halloween looming, these tales by authors from Shirley Jackson to Stephen King are guaranteed to keep you awake as the nights close in

The Guardian - UK

Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’

As he releases his first short story collection, the revered writer talks about magic, the problem with superhero movies and why he will never write another graphic novel

The Guardian - UK

’Tis the season to be spooky: have you decorated your Halloween tree yet?

With just a month left till trick-or-treat time, artificial Christmas trees are being dragged out of lofts and given a hellish makeover. Forget tinsel and candy canes – think bats, cobwebs and crime-scene tape

Tribune News Service

Karla Peterson: A new Comic-Con oral history lets the geeks do the talking

SAN DIEGO — How big is author Mathew Klickstein's new oral history of San Diego Comic-Con? As big as it needs to be.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Pulse of the Heartland: Waukegan voters tired of pols who sail into their harbor city before elections then leave them adrift

Residents told the Sun-Times they want public officials to take a holistic approach to the problems facing their lakefront city. “So it’s not just, oh, do this, vote this way, and boom, now we’re good. We need leaders who take a macro vision,” said photographer Jordan Esparza-Kelley.

WEKU

How independent bookstores help in the fight against book banning and why it matters

An Atlanta store is one of hundreds of independent booksellers across the country celebrating the freedom to read as schools, universities and public libraries face attempts to ban or restrict books.

Reason

Fahrenheit 451 Was Once Sanitized for Public Schools

A publishing company ironically removed the original version of the Ray Bradbury novel depicting mass media censorship.

The Guardian - UK

You’ve got style: Brilliant books on creative writing

From Italo Calvino to Dorothea Brande, Emma Cummins reflects on the books that inspire her as a writer

The Independent UK

People are sharing short stories assigned in school that have ‘haunted’ them since: ‘Shivering 50 years later’

‘I literally think about short stories we had to read in high school REGULARLY’ tweeted one person

The Hindu

Book and theatre bans in a living culture of fear

With tolerance for diversity running thin, dystopic fiction is turning into reality

Chicago Sun-Times

‘It Came From Outer Space’ a close encounter of the very silly kind

The small pleasures of silly new sci-fi musical at Chicago Shakespeare don’t add up to much.

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