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Genre in the Mainstream

A series highlighting genre elements and books that are considered more literary or “mainstream.”

Six Literary Visions of the Future

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Forever Is Our Today: Suicide Club by Rachel Heng

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All of Us Are in Search of An Author: Lacking Character by Curtis White

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A Subtle Apocalypse: Simon Jacobs’s Palaces

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The Future Is the Past: Regressive Science Fiction

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The Strange Case of Sequels and Genre

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Internationalism, Surrealism, Futurism: The Novels of Deji Bryce Olukotun

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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body, Her Self: Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties

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The Challenge of Modern Fables: Ben Loory’s Erudite Surrealism

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The Horror of Home Ownership: Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It

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Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Defies Genre

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Swords, Lances, and Innuendo: James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen

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The Unruly Lives of Fictional Superheroes

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A Walk Around Inland: Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker

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Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

The Monstrous and the Tragic: Kirsten Bakis’s Lives of the Monster Dogs

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The Real Magic of Moebius’ Edena

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The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

Bodies in Space: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan

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Altered Skulls, Body Modification, and Visceral Corruption: The Fiction of Jeremy Robert Johnson

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Revisiting Lovecraft, in Horror and in Ambiguity

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Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaraslav Kalfar

The Void of Space is No Match for the Weight of History: Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness

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