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Star Wars: Light of the Jedi review novel book The High Republic disappointing, undercooked, slowly paced writing
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Star Wars: Light of the Jedi Review – A Dim Start to the High Republic

“The hum of his blade made Bell think of all these things at once. He suspected the marauders they were rapidly nearing assigned ...
By Elijah BeahmJanuary 12, 2021
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Star Wars: The High Republic Brings Massive New Story 200 Years Before the Prequels

Star Wars on film may be taking a break for a few years, but that doesn’t mean that Disney is going to stop ...
By Matthew RazakFebruary 25, 2020
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Disaster Accelerates the Space Race in The Calculating Stars

There’s so much genre fiction released every year that we’re not sure how to cover it. Consider this review a test run. We ...
By Samantha NelsonMay 14, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined

From the MCU to Star Wars: In Praise of Poorly Built Worlds

Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a dystopian novel without a dystopia. The entire 1979 novel takes place during a walking contest to ...
By Noah BerlatskyApril 16, 2019
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Writing At Midnight: How We Made Lancer, A Tabletop Mech RPG

I want to talk about Lancer’s development not as a nuts-and-bolts triumphant-engineering story — that’s my design partner’s purview — but from a ...
By Miguel LopezApril 12, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined

Parents Are the Real Monsters in Stephen King’s Stories

Stephen King called Pet Sematary “the most frightening book I’ve ever written.” The new movie version doesn’t live up to that hype. It’s ...
By Noah BerlatskyApril 9, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Reconciles Literature and Fantasy

Genre fiction and literary fiction are mortal enemies locked in eternal struggle, one firing deadly laser blasts, the other responding with withering nuanced ...
By Noah BerlatskyMarch 12, 2019
Art Must Be Ruined

Murderbot Diaries Deconstructs Gender with a Genderless Robot

Robots in fiction have from the beginning been used to talk about how gender is constructed and how gender constructs us. In Karel ...
By Noah BerlatskyMarch 5, 2019

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