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  Dorothea Martin

  

  

  16 new science fiction and fantasy books to read this April

  The Verge - Andrew Liptak

  Stories about people with special abilities, Mars, and interstellar talent shows Last month, I picked up The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies, a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz. Fritz looks closely at the rise of prestige TV shows like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, …

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  Dorothea Martin

  

  The Top 10 Young Adult and Children’s Books of 2017

  TIME - Lucy Feldman

  Some of the most difficult issues facing us this past year — sexual harassment, police brutality and mental health — surfaced as themes in children’s books and young adult literature. In his first novel since The Fault in Our Stars, beloved YA writer John Green tackled the anguish of living with …

• Had 5 on my own list, can't wait to read them all after another visit at my favorite bookstore :-)

  

  Dorothea Martin

  

  The Top 10 Novels of 2017

  TIME - Sarah Begley

  Fiction publishers complained that 2017 was a difficult year to get attention in a fast-moving media climate that was intensely political. But some of the year’s best novels spoke to current events, whether directly (as in Mohsin Hamid’s refugee story Exit West) or indirectly (George Saunders’s …

• https://io9.gizmodo.com/you-can-now-watch-the-blade-runner-2049-prequel-anime-f-1818815981

  

  Dorothea Martin

  

  io9

  Sep 26, 2017
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  Dorothea Martin

  

  The Rise of the Sad Flâneur

  themillions.com - Sophie Atkinson

  Michel Houellebecq’s latest English language poetry collection, Unreconciled, evokes a strange nostalgia. While this relentlessly downbeat collection …

• http://io9.gizmodo.com/feast-your-eyes-on-all-the-science-fiction-and-fantasy-1793874472

  

  Dorothea Martin

  

  io9

  Mar 31, 2017