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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
One Could Hardly Spoil Them Further
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A quick note for board game fans: Contributors to Twitter have begun a thread describing how to #RuinABoardGame : by cleverly, and minimally...
Sunday, September 6, 2015
The Horse We Rode In On
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Them Bones , 1-10, 29-34: Howard Waldrop's novel begins in 1929 with carefully-chosen details establishing the setting: a sultry nigh...
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Ain't Like No Workings of the Lord
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Like so many enterprises, science fiction and fantasy have given big rewards to a few of their practitioners and a pittance, or worse, to...
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Accursed Leng
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Despite his other defects as a writer (and ample enough they were), H.P. Lovecraft had one gift that helped him surpass the limits of the p...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Pop Goes the Space Miner: Outland Still Entertains
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On its release in 1981, Outland received poor reviews from critics like Roger Ebert, who dismissed it as “ High Noon in space,” and sci-fi...
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Games That Don't Suck: Splendor
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( For a list of games in this series, click here and scroll down .) The latest entry in our series of “Games That Do Not Resemble Monopol...
Monday, June 8, 2015
Sorry, Ladies, C.S. Lewis Finds You Tedious and Icky
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The Narnia novels, which C.S. Lewis wrote as children's stories, generally avoid sexual themes. An episode in the final book that Lew...
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