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Girl Interrupted
Before the movie of the same name, there was Susanna Kaysen’s 1967 book: Girl Interrupted. A book that highlighted life in a Massachusetts mental institution for the rich; a book that highlights teenage girls’ obsession with diets, figures, and Ex-Lax; a book about racism; a book about drugs, suicide, and incest; a book about institutional […]
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My Friend the Bird
Here’s a track from The Morlocks titled “My Friend the Bird,” which is kewl to listen to on a slow Saturday evening.
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Cube
Here’s a 2021 movie about sentient AI, a positive spin on the industrial military complex, and the rise of Chat GBT. Incidentally, this film is based on the 1997 movie of the same title.
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The Peripheral
With a future as deadly as all the world’s stored encrypted files cracked by 2030 with quantum algorithms, here’s another dark future about mass control, surveillance, and quantum VR gaming.
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Here’s a Laird Koenig novel about a young girl with secrets, who lives alone, and lives in her head. However, Rynn is not a normal child because everyone around her disappears. Where are her parents, because nobody has seen them.
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The Gifted
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The Gifted
What the hell is truth? Why so many manuscripts. So many revisions. So many copies. So many edited books. What was the truth in the first place, and could you ever know it, since it happened long ago and was forgotten? And so we never reach perfection, so how will we ever know our changes […]
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Marvel Zombies
What do you get when all but one narrative goes to hell? You get Marvel comic superheroes, walking dead zombies, and alternative universes. So what the hell are you going to do, because all evolutionary paths are dead ends?
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