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Dirk Gently, Sherlock, and the Power of Consequences

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How to Be a Protagonist When You’re Not the Chosen One and the World is Unsaveable

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Why Stories Are Dangerous — And Why We Need Them Anyway

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Stephen King's IT
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Stephen King’s It Taught Me About the Shape of Stories

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Spoiler Alert! On the Modern Problem of Spoilerphobia

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The Flawed Fantasy of the Chosen One

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Rider of Rohan in The Return of the King
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At Dawn, Look to the East: The Riders of Rohan’s Timely Arrival and Other Tear-Inducing Moments in SFF

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Rider of Rohan in The Return of the King
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Getting to the Heart of SFF’s Most-Tear Inducing Moments: The ‘Riders of Rohan’ Phenomenon

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Dirk Gently, Sherlock, and the Power of Consequences

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Sleeps With Monsters

Sleeps With Monsters: Why Can’t More Books Pander To Me?

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Five Video Games With Sudden But Inevitable Betrayals

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Subverting Expectations: Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn

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Julius Caesar Dies, Wills the Modern Movie Blockbuster to the People

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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