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The 2019 Hugo Award winners were announced yesterday at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland. These are my favorite awards to follow because anyone with a membership can vote, and I highly encourage any SFF readers to purchase a membership. Mary Robinette Kowal won for best novel with The Calculating Stars, which
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The first look at Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women is here! Gerwig, of Lady Bird fame, directs an incredible ensemble cast including Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Florence Pugh, and others. It’s already receiving immense buzz and is expected to be well-received by critics and
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We’ve got a $200 gift card to the Book Riot Store up for grabs, courtesy of Early Bird Books! To be entered to win, simply fill in the form below. This sweepstakes is open to residents of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico and all other US territories). Entries will be accepted until 11:45pm, August 30.
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This Riot Recommendation collecting your favorite historical thrillers is sponsored by David Baldacci’s One Good Deed. It’s 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he’s sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do’s and a much longer list of don’ts. But the small town quickly proves more complicated
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Having brain-screamed at yet another driver blowing through a stop sign at 30 miles per hour in my quiet, child-filled residential neighborhood, I got to wondering: Whatever happened to Garp? Released 37 years ago, on in the summer of 1982, George Roy Hill’s film version of John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp seemed to
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When Steven Dobrowski and his family move into their new home, strange things happen. At first, the hauntings perpetuated by the angry spirit are innocuous, but soon turn malicious and dangerous. Keisha—Steven’s wife—insists the family move for the sake of the family’s safety, but Steven’s obsession with the spirit overshadows his judgement, and he refuses
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What they’re reading: Kelsey Miller Posted by Lily, Associate Editor on December 17, 2018 When a rumor recently surfaced that Netflix was pulling “Friends” from its lineup at the end of the year, Twitter collectively lost its mind. No need to panic yet (Netflix has the rights to the ’90s phenomenon till the end of
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