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Why the 9/11 novel has been such a contested and troubled genre
Thousands of people have visited the memorial site, conspiracy theories continue to proliferate and for many the sense of loss is still visceral. After 15 years, the terrorist attack that destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York continues to capture the imagination. Over these 15 years, a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses have attempted to understand and give meaning to the events now known as 9/11.
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Why Stephen King's It still terrifies 30 years on
The bestselling tale of teenagers haunted by a demon remains effective because it’s about so much more than a scary clown. I think you’d struggle to find a more-read author in the 1980s than Stephen King. Throughout the 70s and early 80s, King carved a path for himself as the world’s foremost writer of horror fiction. His books were a double threat: they were both immaculately written and presented, on their most basic levels, subjects that were designed to terrify readers. Each book focused on a topic that drilled into our own neuroses, either real or imagined: the vampires found in Salem’s Lot, the isolation presented by The Shining...
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The Man in the Woods by Shirley Jackson
“Christopher’s cat watched, purring, until Aunt Cissy disappeared into the kitchen alcove again and came back carrying the trussed carcass of what seemed to Christopher to be a wild pig.”
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9 Horrifying Books That Aren’t Shelved as Horror
We’ve rounded up a list of 9 sci-fi, literary fiction, and even non-fiction titles that will still leave you chilled.
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Solar Bones by Mike McCormack wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2016
A book written in a single novel-length sentence has won the Goldsmiths Prize 2016. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack, published by Tramp Press, was named the winner of the £10,000 award which recognises fiction at its most novel.
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‘The Boat Rocker’: An Unsettling Book About the Moral Dimensions of Modern Journalism
How timely it is to read this strange, intense novel from Ha Jin about the glories and limits of the press. A former soldier in the Chinese army who chose to stay in the U.S. after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ha Jin has lived and worked under two very different sets of rules. By Ron Charles.
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The Science Fiction That Came Before Science
Literature imagined technologically marvelous cities, space travel, and aliens before the scientific revolution even hit its stride. By Edward Simon.
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Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories?
Neuroscientists who insist technology is changing our brains may have it wrong. What if we are switching from books to digital entertainment because of a change in our need to communicate? By Will Self.
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“The Hanging of the Schoolmarm”
Fiction: “The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”
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‘Girl On The Train’ Author Paula Hawkins Has A New Book Coming Out
The suspense is killing us.
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Dark Passages: The Devil in the Details
To make the performance of a tedious, exacting, time-consuming task riveting to watch, it is only necessary for the activity to be illegal… By Imogen Sara Smith.
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Sales of George Orwell's 1984 surge after Kellyanne Conway's 'alternative facts'
Comments made by Donald Trump’s adviser have been compared to the classic dystopian novel, pushing it to become the sixth best-selling book on Amazon
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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Might Be The Highest Form of Literature on the Planet
I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to discover Terry Pratchett. I avoided him during much of my early reading career—I’d read the works of fantastical humorists before, and while I’d always enjoyed the experience, it wasn’t something I intentionally sought out. I didn’t realize I was missing out on what are arguably the best books fantasy has to offer. It’s hard to describe Pratchett to the uninitiated. His works mostly take place on a fictional world shaped like a disc, and the stories tend to be murder mysteries or thrillers mixed with a healthy dose of satire on the human condition.
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Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Reimagines the World After the 2016 Election
William Gibson’s science fiction is so eerily prophetic that sometimes it seems as if he’s creating the future, not just imagining it.
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Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?
Literature’s evolution has reflected and spurred the growing complexity of society. By Julie Sedivy.
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"Viral Evolution: Retrovirus" by Leigh Winters
Something I wrote, and if you enjoy apocalyptic type scenarios then you may enjoy "Viral Evolution: Retrovirus"
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Sex in fiction: What we shouldn’t write when we write about sex
Frenzied penises, bulbous salutations, bulging trousers, howling, groans, sighs, minty-flavoured tongues, awkward positions and spasming muscles: these all things you would expect to find in some of the winning entries of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
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What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome?
My novel Kingdom of the Wicked — Rules took me 13 years to write. It has been a long time between drinks. Rules isn’t all of it, either. Book II, Order, comes out in March, so apologies for the cliffhanger. However, rest assured I haven’t gone all George R.R. Martin on you. Everything is written, with only final editorial to complete.
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55 Essential Space Operas from the Last 70 Years
What makes a science fiction story a space opera? By T.W. O'Brien.
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The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross
Earl Grey Editing reviews The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross.
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