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Slow Dance at the High School by James van Pelt – FREE STORY Time Machine: July 13, 2025 AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: July 13, 2025 Noticias Literatura 13-7 Resurrected Review: Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville
Fantasy August 26, 2016

IS THERE A “PERFECT” MOVIE? Review of “GROUNDHOG DAY”

Have I written this column before? Have I written this column before? Steve asks, as he takes a closer look at Groundhog Day, a classic “time-warp” movie with Bill Murray.

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Film/Televison April 16, 2015

Interview: Electric Cinema – Andrew David Barker

The Electric is a ghost story steeped in the love of movies, with shades of vintage Bradbury and King. It is quiet an achievement.

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Horror December 23, 2014

Review: I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas by Adam Roberts

It’s almost Christmas, so what better way to enjoy the holidays than sitting by the fire and checking out Adam Roberts book I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas.

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Historical Fiction May 15, 2014

Review: Hairy London by Stephen Palmer

A great quest with a deadline opens this homage to Victorian/Edwardian adventures.

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Fantasy November 2, 2013

Scide Splitters: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, the plucky female lead character of The Eyre Affair, is a literary detective in an alternate 1985 England.

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Fandom September 19, 2013

Review – Searching for Ray Bradbury by Steven Paul Leiva

A loving tribute to the memory of one of the most important figures both in the history of our genres and in American popular culture and the literature of the 20th century.

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May 16, 2013

Crossroads: The Cores of Literary Fiction and Speculative Fiction

The relationship between speculative fiction and mainstream literary fiction is complicated by decades of group identity dynamics, mutual ignorance, and overbroad critical generalizations about both genres. However, if we try to put our long-held attitudes […]

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Chris Gerwel is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Raised in New Jersey, he spent ten years in Central & Eastern Europe in the market research industry, and today when he isn’t reading or writing speculative fiction, he works in the software industry. He lives in northern NJ, with a beautiful wife and a rambunctious puppy, and also writes the weekly blog The King of Elfland’s 2nd Cousin.

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