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This debut fantasy collection shares “stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center,” including the title story’s fairytale spin on the American immigrant story. (March 2)
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The adventures of the Shadowhunters circa Edwardian London continue, as Cordelia must face the fact that her arranged marriage is a sham, her magical blade burns her whenever she tries to use it, and a serial killer is targeting her friends. (March 2)
A group of friends lean in; it’s the final battle, the end of an epic campaign, years in the making. The only thing that stands between them and the ultimate triumph of good over evil is the roll of a single die…
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Dungeons and Dragons does it, anyway. But genre games are as varied as genre fiction, and most don’t require the time or monetary investment that a thick, rules-heavy D&D campaign often asks for. The stories told around the table (or over Zoom!) with your adventuring party can rival the great works of fiction, and have been oft-cited as sources of inspiration. But with the advent of experimental lyric games, journaling prompts, and new systems for mechanics including using tarot cards, betting structures, or even a Jenga tower genre tabletop games have never been more diverse or more exciting.
Apple and Facebook have changed their relationship to it s complicated.
Speaking at a Data Privacy Day this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook blamed advertising-based social network platforms whoever could he have meant? for causing caused real-world violence and dehumanizing users.
It was a message about as subtle as a Santa Clara trolley. At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of technology that says all engagement is good engagement, said Cook.
Nodding at the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, he added: It is long past time to stop pretending that this approach doesnt come with a cost of polarization, of lost trust and, yes, of violence.
New York Times: Author ponders what writers will do when the outrage over President Trump is over
Posted at 4:44 pm on December 23, 2020 by Brett T.
It’s something we’ve wondered ourselves: What are all the people whose whole lives have revolved around hating President Trump going to do once he’s out of the Oval Office? We already know that at least one of the Never-Trumpers heading the Lincoln Project has been sniffing around AOC’s Twitter feed to see if she wants to team up.
The New York Times has published a piece by novelist Viet Nguyen about post-Trump literature: What will writers do now that their daily dose of outrage has passed?