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Intertitles: Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi: Espionage and the Speculative

by Genevieve Valentine

13 February 2012

A man walks through a hub room where outside information is being gathered and translated by crew members who shuttle it through the circulatory system; he steps into the padded orange room at the center of it all, where he sits down at a black glass table and reports to an inscrutable Control that the enemy is on the move.

Scores

by John Clute

30 January 2012

The pure modernist extremism of Kafka is to show us a world without bling.

Paraphernalia: FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP

by Mark Plummer

23 January 2012

I don’t count myself as part of the dinner party wing of fandom, the people who seem to see SF conventions primarily as an assembly point for a series of epic meal excursions.

Dice and D-Pads: Jumping to Beginnings

by Robyn Fleming

9 January 2012

My husband and I had a pretty funny conversation with my mother this past New Year's Eve.

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