fiction

4 min read 2022-07-02 06:00:00

This Week’s Toy News Definitely Bent Your Wookiee

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, Gizmodo’s regular round up of the latest and greatest nerdy toy news. This week wraps up Obi-Wan Wednesdays with two

2 min read 2022-07-01 19:53:00

Suddenly, it’s July – the heat is here, as are the occasional summer thunderstorms. Nine days to Walk for Music; a couple weeks until a getaway

18 min read 2022-06-30 10:20:36

See the Story Index for Wael Abdelgawad’s other stories. This is a multi-chapter novel. Previous Chapters: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter

19 min read 2022-06-30 00:14:33

High Peaks Pure Earth presents an interview with the late renowned Tibetan translator Tréling Wangdor (Alternative spelling: Wangdor Tailing). The

4 min read 2022-06-29 19:00:19

Raise your hand if you waited until you hit “publish” on Amazon to start thinking about how to get the book launch results that author dreams

6 min read 2022-06-29 01:09:24

Are we all writing historical fiction, but the history is invented? When I was working as the Forgotten Realms novel line editor at Wizards of the

13 min read 2022-06-27 22:30:00

By Vivian Asimos Limpár, Ildikó (2021) The truths of monsters: coming of age with fantastic media. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,

5 min read 2022-06-27 14:35:44

The longlists for the 2022 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been revealed. The two awards—the Non-fiction Award and the Fiction Prize—celebrate

2 min read 2022-06-23 22:00:00

June is flying by, and I’m flying through stacks of review and library books. Here’s what I have been reading: Empathy Economics: Janet

20 min read 2022-06-23 12:59:27

You are the unalive thing possessing her body. Her body was printed three days ago from blueprints transferred moments before the motorbike crash

8 min read 2022-06-22 17:00:00

In the medium of bodily fluids, Ottessa Moshfegh is a virtuoso. Since her debut novella, McGlue, which opens with a dazed sailor waking to discover

12 min read 2022-06-22 16:00:00

In 1979, Georges Perec published “Le Voyage d’hiver” in an off-trade brochure. It was published again in 1983, a year after his death,

19 min read 2022-06-22 13:41:07

See the Story Index for Wael Abdelgawad’s other stories. This is a multi-chapter novel. Chapters: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 LOCATION:

10 min read 2022-06-22 02:00:00

Once we make a historical character a part of our story – we own that character. It’s our character now, and we can do whatever we want with that

5 min read 2022-06-22 00:58:10

If you follow me on GoodReads you’ll know that I set up a Reading Challenge every year, and for most of the past few years I’ve actually