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Exploring the "Free Will Holy Trinity" — three of the most perfect speculative stories ever written.

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An incisive and moving new critical biography of one of the nuclear age’s greatest visionaries.

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Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air.

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On the literature and politics of charisma.

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It was Octavia Margaret who gave her daughter the spark to even consider a writing career. She saw her quiet, bookish ten-year-old daughter writing, saw the delight on her face as she created, and …

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