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Author : Marie Brennan

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New Worlds: The Morality Police

Laws and policing aren’t only about damage to property or personal safety. There’s a whole subset of the enterprise which is devoted to safeguarding —

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New Worlds: Local Government

Although much of speculative fiction likes to concern itself with continent-spanning empires and colonies orbiting far-distant stars, I want to drag our focus back down

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New Worlds: Blood Sacrifice

When it comes to blood sacrifice — animals or humans — the logic is the unchanged from other forms of the practice. Nothing good comes

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New Worlds: Sanctification

It’s almost axiomatic that religious things are different from secular ones. Over and over again, we see the dichotomy of the sacred and the profane

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New Worlds: PTSD

We’re nearly done with our discussion of mental health because I’m nearly at the limits of what I can talk about with any kind of

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