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Author Tamora Pierce On Straightforward, Inclusive Fantasy
Image: Lady Knight cover by Joyce Patti, Random House Tamora Pierce is a prolific author of fantasy books, most of which feature young women as protagonists and many of which are set in her fictional land of Tortall. With Tortall: A Spy’s Guide out earlier this month, io9 spoke with the writer about details left…
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Star Trek: Discovery Riffs On An Original Series Episode With Muddled Results
This week’s “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” ended on a cliffhanger that sets up a big showdown for next week’s finale. Meanwhile, everyone, save Burnham, is wandering around acting suspicious as hell. And for some reason, the show seems like it’s doing its own version of a classic Klingon-Federation moment from the original series.
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This Week Was Star Trek: Discovery’s Best Episode
If you’ve been sitting around waiting for Discovery to find a balance between classic Trek storytelling and its commitment to serialised storytelling with a single main character, than “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad” is the best we’ve got so far.
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A Magic Wand Is A ‘Nuclear Bomb’ In The New Trailer For The Fantasy Cop Movie Bright
Video: The goal of Netflix’s Bright is clearly to slam together the tropes of the buddy cop movie with those of fantasy. So we have a veteran cop in Will Smith’s Officer Ward and a newbie and first Orc officer in Joel Edgerton’s Jakoby. And then they stumble onto a magic wand that causes real…