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John Carter’s Never-Made Sequel Actually Sounds Epic
Today is not only the 10th anniversary of the release of Disney’s John Carter, it’s probably the 10th anniversary of the death of its sequel. Everyone involved with John Carter, which was based on a legendary series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, saw it as the start of a franchise. Even the film itself,…
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Is The ‘Fix-Up’ The Best Kind Of Science Fiction Novel There Is?
Everybody knows that short stories are where science fiction writers really get to experiment, and the most perfect pieces of narrative often happen at shorter lengths. But we also love to explore a world at the length of a whole book. So that makes the “fix-up” the best of both worlds, right?