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From Serialization to Novelization: On the First Iteration of Frank Herbert's
Dune
"Books have the ability to travel into the future in a way that no other written medium does."
By
Ryan Britt
| September 27, 2023
Why Did It Take So Long for
Star Trek
to Embrace Queer Characters?
only used analogies to talk about queerness."">"It’s bewildering yet predictable that prior to the 21st century, Trek
only
used analogies to talk about queerness."
By
Ryan Britt
| May 31, 2022
What Happens When Sherlock Holmes Retires?
When the World's Greatest Detective Decides to Keep Bees
By
Ryan Britt
| July 17, 2015
We Have This Device. It’s Called a Book.
How science fiction sees the future of reading
By
Ryan Britt
| April 21, 2015
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