Book Review
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Winter Wonderland? Gethen and Narnia: the Lands of Perpetual Winter
I recently went on a cruise to Bermuda. It was awful. This was partially due to the incessant swaying of the boat, the boredom that…
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Descriptive Science Fiction and Ursula K. Le Guin: An Appreciation
The first time I read The Left Hand of Darkness, I did not get very far. I didn’t make it past the first thirty pages…
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Borrowing Lives: Clone Organ Donors in Never Let Me Go
Note: This review contains spoilers. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go takes place in a parallel universe after the Second World War, where human…
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Luminato Literary Picnic Feeds Our Appetite for the Unreal
Photo by Emily Macrae If you were to ask me what words I would like to feast on, I would reply with a menu of…
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Ultimate Dystopian Showdown: Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games
With the popularity of its movie series, the infamous rumour has resurfaced that Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is a (*cough cough*) rip-off of Koushun…
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The City of Dreams and Nightmares: Sex, Obsession, and Storytelling in Catherynne M. Valente’s “Palimpsest”
Welcome to Palimpsest: a sexually-transmitted city accessible only through dreams. Though the magical city is filled with permanent residents, human “immigrants” from our world can…
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