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‘Dune’ Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict

Just before his deployment to Iraq in 2003, Ryan Kort spotted a paperback copy of Dune in a bookstore near…

Everyone talks about the sandworms and the spice, but the coolest thing Frank Herbert invented for Dune—even he seemed to…

That’s all business-side multiversing, but I think some of the in-story kind is on its way, too. I have nothing…

Writing a book is a lonely pursuit, one that can take years of solitary work. Selling a book is another…

So your normal, too-short summer vacation has suddenly become a hyper-extended, undifferentiated snake-dragon thing. You have a lot of time…

“Ebooks are up, audiobooks are up, hardcover was up through the Easter holidays, books for children, books for gifts. The…

What makes a person a prepper? Is it how many rows of cans are stacked in their basement? Intimate familiarity…

Inaugurating a very black moment, Vine began much like any other social network, and not until its demise was it…

Midway through In the Dream House, her memoir about an abusive relationship with a former girlfriend, Carmen Maria Machado makes…

The trailer’s shot in black and white, and we see a court in the distance and there’s a person shooting…