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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...
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Loose Ends: A Literary Supercut of Sci-Fi Last Sentences
Miles grinned sleepily, puddled down in his uniform. “Welcome to the beginning.”
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The Madness of Susanna Clarke, Fairy Princess
After more than a decade away, the author is back with 'Piranesi,' a way to communicate...
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WIRED’s Ultimate Summer Reading List
Summer is as much a season as a mindset—a sunny thing to escape to. Here are...
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Leigh Stein's 'Self Care' and the Death of the Girlboss
The author's new novel is wildly prescient when it comes to the fortunes of female founders.
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A Reading List for Kids on Their Very Long Summer Break
We've got suggestions for classics to rediscover, what to read if your brother is driving you...
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5 Free Digital Comics to Spend Time With During Lockdown
Looking for some comics to fill your quarantine hours? Lots of publishers are currently offering free...