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On Being Chaotic More Effectively
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Adapting A Book Into A Zero-Budget Film
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Stone and Sky: How Andor Made Star Wars Feel Real
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The TV That Made Us: The Owl Service (1969-70)
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House of Odysseus By Claire North
Odysseus is missing – lost at sea, assumed by many to be dead. His wife, Penelope remains in
Starling House by Alix E Harrow
The haunted house is a stock setting in gothic fiction, instantly familiar to readers in and
The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
In Amoria, the great glass city, Naila is a prospective mage of the Academy of Amoria. She passed
Warlords of Wyrdwood by RJ Barker
Cahan du Nahere was Cowl-Rai, chosen as a god’s saviour, though he shunned that future and
Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures (Beyond and Within) Editied By Francesco Verso
Fourteen short stories examining possible near and distant futures set in the aftermath of our
The Half King by Melissa Landers
Like all second-born daughters, Cerise was given to the Temple at birth and trained for life as a