Ranked #1
Robert Silverberg, “Science Fiction: 101” (Roc, 2014)
Robert Silverberg, “Science Fiction: 101” (Roc, 2014)
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Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, "This is How You Lose the Time War" (Gallery, 2019)
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For Blue and Red—arch enemies at the center of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s epistolary novella, This is How You Lo... Read more
1 Aug 2019
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Max Gladstone, “Full Fathom Five” (Tor, 2014)
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