As Philip K. Dick’s influence on modern SFF grows more evident with each passing year—today would’ve been his 90th birthday; he died at 53—it seems that it simply took all of us a few decades to wrap our heads around the radical things the author accomplished throughout his fractured career. Aside from the fact that a […]
As the real world grows each day stranger by leaps and bounds, the skewed secondary worlds, fantastical lands, and alternate histories that are the realms of science fiction and fantasy have only grown more vital, not only as a means of escape from blaring headlines, political turmoil, and the crescendo of climate change, but as […]
No one does body horror quite like the Japanese. The genre is, by definition, deeply disturbing already, offering up mutations, sickeningly visceral takes on monsters, and fates worth than death. But the Japanese version of it is just somehow…more, in all respects, and more unsettling than its American and European counterparts. From the biomechanoid insanity […]
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