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What I Saw Before the War

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Original Fiction
Fantasy

What I Saw Before the War

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Detail from the cover of Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Backlist Bonanza

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books Set During WWII

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Book Recommendations
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Five SFF Works That Explore the (Sometimes Perilous) Power of Libraries

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Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books Set in the Future

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book review

Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Library of Broken Worlds Is Like No Library You’ve Ever Visited

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Read an Excerpt From The Library of Broken Worlds

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So Damn Electric: Janelle Monáe’s The Memory Librarian & Other Stories of Dirty Computer 

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Janelle Monáe’s Memory Librarian Collaborators Include Alaya Dawn Johnson & Sheree Renée Thomas

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The World Fantasy Award
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Announcing the 2021 World Fantasy Awards Winners

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Five Books

The Solarpunk Future: Five Essential Works of Climate-Forward Fiction

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Reconstruction Stories by Alaya Dawn Johnson
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Excerpts

Read an Excerpt From Alaya Dawn Johnson’s “Reconstruction”

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Batman and Wonder Woman Are Headed to Serial Box

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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