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books
Book Excerpt — Ajita: A Novel By K. Sridhar
It is the fifth century. Ajita, a curious young boy, is endlessly fascinated by ants. How do they know where to seek food? How do...
shethepeople.tv
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science
Insights from Uncommon Thinkers: How these innovators found novel approaches in their fields
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we sit down with some of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers” — inventors, scientists, technologists and...
geekwire.com
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books
Ian Rankin recommends a gritty crime novel and a Jilly Cooper romance
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technology
Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt
An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” offers new details about why OpenAI’s...
techcrunch.com
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books
Why Tariq Ashkanani Chose to Set His New Novel in America
"There is freedom in being able to play a little fast and loose with the rules, a recurring motif that I find predominantly in US...
crimereads.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Book Review: 'Make Sure You Die Screaming' is an absurd road trip novel for modern time s
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em on a multi-day, drunk-driving road trip in middle-class middle of America to find their missing father with...
aol.com
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books
In Sarah Harman's new novel, a hot mess of a mom sets out to find her son's bully
A hot mess of a former pop singer becomes an unlikely detective when her son's classmate is kidnapped. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sarah Harman...
npr.org
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books / writing
Novel reimagines golden age of female detectives
SUSPENSE ROUNDUP Everyone knows Agatha Christie. But what about the other women authors who flourished during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" in...
stltoday.com
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books
Janelle Monáe Unveils New Graphic Novel At Blerdcon, Expanding Her Sci-Fi Universe
Janelle Monáe is taking her world-building talents to the comic book realm. The multi-hyphenate artist and Afrofuturist icon recently revealed her...
globalgrind.com
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apps
This app teaches you languages as you read sci-fi and novels
Save $ 65 on life time access with our coupon code. If the big-name language apps have failed you, it’s probably because they’re, well, boring....
popsci.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Ian Rankin recommends a gritty crime novel and a Jilly Cooper romance
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ocregister.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
How the Wizard of Oz and the Bible influenced Karen Russell’s ‘The Antidote’
“The Antidote,” Karen Russell’s first novel in 14 years, is framed by two real-life events in Nebraska back in 1935 – a devastating dust storm and a...
dailynews.com
- 30+ days ago
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writing
The best novels of the year so far
THE AVERAGE American reader gets through about 11 books a year. No one wants to waste their precious free time on a dud. So our critics...
economist.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
V.S. Naipaul: The Grief and the Glory
‘I’ll read it with great interest,’ V.S. Naipaul said, as he took the bound proof of my first novel in his hands and...
granta.com
- 18 days ago
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books
The Age of Monsters: Amitav Ghosh’s Wild Fictions Unravels the Intersections of Migration, Climate Crisis, and Colonial Legacy
Amitav Ghosh’s Wild Fictions starts with a deceptively novel-like tone. We meet Bangladeshi migrants in Italy; Ghosh is interviewing them there. The...
thehindu.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Netflix Is Gobbling Up World Literature. What Could Go Wrong?
The streamer keeps mounting lavish adaptations of beloved novels — and making them all feel like just more Netflix. I’m thinking of a piece of...
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business / nutrition
U of C gut health spinout ClostraBio raises $ 3.9M to launch novel probiotic
Biotech startup ClostraBio has raised new financing from investors betting on the company’s ability to commercialize a novel probiotic...
chicagobusiness.com
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books
75 Years Later, a Classic Sci-Fi Novel is Finally Getting the TV Adaptation it Deserves
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inverse.com
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books
2025 BIPOC Horror Novels for the Read Harder Challenge
Horror fans, are you ready to embark on another year of Read Harder Challenges? The 2025 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge features a lot of great...
bookriot.com
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books
10 Eco Horror Graphic Novels to Send Chills Down Your Spines
There’s nothing better than tucking into a good graphic novel on a chilly evening. Or any evening, really. Graphic novels come in many forms:...
comicbook.com
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books
‘Stroke of Death’: Murder mystery set in colonial Bengal shines in its portrayal of women’s lives
The novel balances history and suspense equally well and gives its readers a story that is delightful and intelligent. Shampa Roy’s Stroke of Death...
scroll.in
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books
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
A war between fruit and veg; a colourful study of germs; the world’s most badly behaved fairy; a masterful ghost story from the late...
theguardian.com
- 30+ days ago
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Exploring Memory Loss in Horror and Thriller Novels
Jon Bassoff on a deeply disorienting tradition. There’s a powerful scene in the 1987 Alan Parker film, Angel Heart, where Mickey Rourke’s character,...
crimereads.com
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books
An Excerpt from WHERE SHADOWS MEET by Patrice Caldwell—and More SFF Links
Hello, my little baby armadillos! In today’s round-up of recent sci-fi and fantasy links, I have stuff to share with you about an unusual...
bookriot.com
- 30+ days ago
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books
Can Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere avoid the fate of the MCU?
Last year, author Brandon Sanderson released Wind and Truth, the fifth novel in his epic fantasy saga The Stormlight Archive. This book was a big...
winteriscoming.net
- 30+ days ago
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books
3 Harry Potter fan fiction authors are coming to a bookstore near you
Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal...
npr.org
- 30+ days ago
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