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This month, we’ve got tense thrillers set aboard claustrophobic spaceships, a magical sword-maker who gets caught up in a fantastical conflict in

Exciting new releases from Brandon Sanderson, Cory Doctorow, io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders, and so many more.

We speak to Lavanya Lakshminarayan about how a real-life panic attack sparked the idea for her futuristic sci-fi novel, The Ten Percent Thief

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JOHN Purser concludes his series on Scotland’s early music with a look at the unearthed instruments that played their part in the Caledonians…

It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. License is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations–as if the Saturnalia differed at all from the usual business day! -- Roman philosopher Seneca, ca. 64 C.E. ((“On Festivals and Fasting.” In: Seneca’s Letters

Merry Saturnalia! Which Christmas traditions are actually pagan?

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Detail of Alexander and Boukephalas from the Alexander Mosaic Transforming history into a fictional universe means the writer begins with a template of known places, people, and events. In previous essays, I’ve some of the questions I’ve been asked about how I adapted the story of Alexander the Great into a gender-spun space opera: Which aspects of the setting are meant to represent real places and historical situations from the past (part 1)? How many of the characters are analogs for the ...