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8 Nov
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"Victories Greater Than Death" is @charliejane's debut YA novel, and it's *superb* - an exciting, engrossing book that captures everything great about young adult tropes while deftly subverting the problems those tropes present.

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My latest column for @locusmag is "The Unimaginable," about the relationship of science fiction plays to the future. Sf is a literature of inspiration and warning, not prediction.

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