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New Worlds: Hostages and Ransoms

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Place one million dollars in unmarked bills in a duffel bag and leave it in a locker at the bus stop . . . When we think of hostages and … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Family Feud

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) The Campbells and the MacDonalds. The Montagues and the Capulets. The Hatfields and the McCoys. In between the small-scale violence of one individual against another and the large-scale violence of … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Interpersonal Violence

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Watching the news, it’s easy to get the impression that we live in extremely violent times. Certainly some kinds of violence are all too characteristic of our modern society. In … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Copyright and Intellectual Property

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Intellectual property may seem like an odd topic for wrapping up a discussion of the literary arts, but there’s a sense in which it feeds directly out of the printing … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Poetry

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) What is poetry, anyway? At school you probably got taught about things like rhyme and meter (certain arrangements of stressed and unstressed beats in a line). These are frequently found … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Literary Storytelling

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Since these essays are crafted with an eye toward science fiction and fantasy, I should specify at the outset that I don’t mean “literary storytelling” in the sense of modern … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Oral Storytelling

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) “Once upon a time . . .” I promise, it isn’t just the fact that I’m a writer that has me dividing up the topic of storytelling into two essays, … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: A Trip to the Dentist

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) However much you dislike going to the dentist now, you’ve got it good. Like surgery, this is a field that has benefited immeasurably from the widespread use of anaesthetic. Imagine … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Our Crowning Glory

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Somewhere along the road from “East African plains ape” to “anatomically modern Homo sapiens,” we shed most of our hair. It does linger in places, though, the most noticeable of … Continue reading →

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New Worlds: Skin Deep

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Marie Brennan
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) It isn’t just enough to get the dirt off your skin. Since time immemorial, we’ve sought to make our skin perfect: unmarred, unwrinkled, paler or darker depending on the fashions … Continue reading →

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