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Falcons, Lokis, Nerd Canons, and Why You Don’t Have to Care
One question might occur to anyone watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a good show...
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A Sexy New Theory of Consciousness Is All Up in Your Feelings
So yes, you’re the homeostat, a happy little organism just trying to maintain homeostasis, a basic...
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Soothe Yourself With a Picture Book About the Internet Dying
In the beginning Gore created the internet, and for a while it wasn’t completely awful. Nyan...
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Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan
As China’s science fiction authors are elevated to the status of oracles, Qiufan’s career—and his genre’s...
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Klara and the Sun Imagines a Social Schism Driven by AI
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to WIRED about AI, Crispr, and his hopes for...
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Who Is R. A. Lafferty? And Is He the Best Sci-Fi Writer Ever?
You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock...
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Sherry Turkle Talks Going Remote, Loneliness, and Her Memoir
In The Empathy Diaries, the pioneering computer researcher finally studies her own life. She tells WIRED...
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WandaVision Brought the Multiverse to Marvel
And just like at DC, and maybe even at Star Wars, I promise you it will...
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Two Paths for the Extremely Online Novel
Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This ask the same questions about the internet....
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A New Way to Trace the History of Sci-Fi’s Made-Up Words
The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction turns a century of neologisms (and neosemes!) into a redefintion...
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WIRED’s Picks for the 10 Books You Have to Read This Winter
It’s cold and you’re probably still quarantined. Time to get reading. Start with these tales of...
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Zoom Book Tours: 5 Authors on Publishing in a Pandemic
WIRED asked the writers of five of our favorite 2020 titles what it was like to...
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After 2020, Live Events Might Not Look the Same. Good!
This year radically changed what live events—at least those that weren’t canceled—look like. It also taught...
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The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020
These 48 movies, TV shows, albums, Twitter feeds, songs, podcasts, and books helped us get through...
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The Best Fantasy Books of an Unfantastic Year
In the midst of a global pandemic, the genre got a lot more real.
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26 of the Best Books WIRED Read in 2020
From pig poop to sunscreen to poker to hackers, the books we love dive deep to...
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13 Books You Need to Read This Fall
New movies are few; new TV is fast diminishing. Here are the books we think you...
