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Searching for Meaning in the Void of Space: <i>Aniara</i>, <i>High Life</i>, and <i>Avenue 5</i>

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Images from three science fiction movies and series: Aniara, High Life, and Avenue 5
Featured Essays
Science Fiction

Searching for Meaning in the Void of Space: Aniara, High Life, and Avenue 5

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Forky in Toy Story 4
Movies & TV
Toy Story 4

Used Sporks in the Hands of an Angry God: Toy Story 4, The Good Place, and What it Means to Be Trash

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Books
Fantasy

The World is a Weird, Dark Place — Fantasy Helps Us Make Sense of It

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Hagrid carries Harry's body
Books
Harry Potter

Moral Kombat: How Narnia and Harry Potter Wrestle with Death and Rewrite Christianity

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Rereads and Rewatches
The Lord of the Rings

Beyond Good and Evil: The Complex Moral System of Tolkien’s Middle-earth

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Books
Stephen King

The Great Stephen King Reread: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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Movies & TV
television

We Are All Eleanor: Affirming Life After Death in The Good Place

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Featured Essays
rpgs

What’s the Point of an RPG Without a Main Villain? How Ultima IV Changed the Game

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Books
Iain M. Banks

On Iain M. Banks and the Video Game that Inspired Excession

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Blog
written word

Responding to Fairyland: Gregory Maguire’s Wicked

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written word

Bad good guys, good bad guys, bad bad guys, no good good guys

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television

Star Trek Re-watch: “Dagger of the Mind”

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“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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