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Victor LaValle was born February 3, 1972 in Manhattan and grew up in Queens. He earned an English degree from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Co­lumbia University. His debut collection was The Ecstatic was published in 2002, fol­lowed by Shirley Jackson Award winner Big Machine (2009), Shirley Jackson Award finalist The Devil in Silver (2012), and World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award winner The Changeling (2017), also a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Lovecraftian novella The Ballad of Black Tom (2016) won British Fantasy and Shir­ley Jackson...

It’s always seemed to me that John Joseph Ad­ams’s Best American Science Fiction and Fan­tasy series, now in its sixth volume, has served a somewhat different if equally important purpose than the more traditional year’s best volumes which have been a staple of SF publishing for more than 70 years. While those volumes have historically been SF’s way of presenting itself to itself (always with the hopes of drawing a broader readership among those who simply want to check in on SF from time to time), Adams’s annual volumes are part of the “Best American” series of focused anth...

The Teutonic Terrorist Panic of 1917 The current threat from (or hysteria over) “domestic terrorists” is often compared to incidents in Nazi Germany. Arnold Schwarzenegger referenced Kristallnacht, while I pointed out how Hitler did not let the crisis of the 1933 attack on the Reichstag capitol go to waste, but instead exploited it to crack down on German liberties. Yet, a better analog might be the Wilson administration’s demonization of German-Americans in 1917. Although we are constantly lectured on the crucial role of immigrants in American history, the vast contributions of Germa...

photo credit: Bigstock The current threat from (or hysteria over) “domestic terrorists” is often compared to incidents in Nazi Germany. Arnold Schwarzenegger referenced Kristallnacht, while I pointed out how Hitler did not let the crisis of the 1933 attack on the Reichstag capitol go to waste, but instead exploited it to crack down on German liberties. Yet, a better analog might be the Wilson administration’s demonization of German-Americans in 1917. Although we are constantly lectured on the crucial role of immigrants in American history, the vast contributions of German...

X-FORCE #16 is a superb atmospheric underwater caper that explores a threat born from within Krakoa itself and has fun doing it. #Marvel #XForce #ReignOfX @Benjamin_Percy @joshuacassara @JoeCaramagna #GurueFX