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Genre writing, show don't tell, and what actually sells
Is SFF using fewer tools than contemporary lit? Yes. The answer is yes.
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RIP Cyberpunk: 1977-1994
Cyberpunk is dead. What replaced it?
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The Spear Cuts Through Water is the best overlooked book of the last year
It's got fans. Not in its publisher's promotions department, however.
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Unsettling Futures - Brandon Sanderson, fame, and the failure of the Long Tail
May 8, 2022 • Matthew Claxton
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Unsettling Futures: Is SF bad at tech skepticism?
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The emotional distance of magic systems
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Moonstruck is the greatest secret werewolf movie of all time
You're seeing this too, right?
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Unsettling Futures – FICTION – All the Turns of the Earth
This story first appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact back in 2020, and I honestly thought I’d posted it through the ol’ newsletter ages ago, but…
Jan 1 • 
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The emotional distance of magic systems
Or, why I will never be Brandon Sanderson
Dec 20, 2022 • 
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Greg Bear's Eon – a brief appreciation
One of the great writers of SFF is gone
Nov 20, 2022 • 
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Unsettling Futures: Is SF bad at tech skepticism?
The answer will not surprise you!
Nov 5, 2022 • 
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Unsettling Futures - The Nameless Subgenres of Science Fiction
Or, What We Talk About When We Talk About Genres
Nov 2, 2022 • 
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Unsettling Futures - The hollow philosophy of TV Tropes
When incompatible ways of thinking about science fiction writing collide
Sep 23, 2022 • 
Matthew Claxton
Unsettling Futures
Unsettling Futures
Overthinking stories about robots and ray guns.
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Overthinking stories about robots and ray guns.

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