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The 2023 Hugo Award Nominees Are Here
It’s that time of year again: Chengdu WorldCon has released the full list of nominees for this year’s Hugos, the premiere science fiction and fantasy awards ceremony highlighting the best in books, film, TV, and criticism in genre material. This year marks the 81st WorldCon, the traditional home of the Hugo Awards winners ceremony, taking…
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When Is Star Wars’ Rhyming Poetry Too Much?
Star Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets — a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace…
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Anakin Skywalker, You Dramatic Son of a Gun
Darth Vader is Star Wars’ ultimate villain. We’ve always known that, but the revived era of the franchise has dug deep into Vader as a character beyond his iconography to re-establish why we’re fascinated with him, why we’re so scared of him, and why we ultimately invest in him. Obi-Wan Kenobi understands this in returning…
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New Documentary Series Light & Magic Will Explain Your Favourite Parts of Star Wars
If you’re reading a site like Gizmodo or Gizmodo, chances are Industrial Light and Magic has had an impact on your life. Created by George Lucas to help him make a little film called Star Wars, the company has been at the forefront of visual and special effects, working on basically every major sci-fi and…