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I don't think it's wildly unusual for (say) a movie adapted from a novel to be a better movie than the novel was a novel. I mean, both...

The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa is an intriguing mystery which is a surprisingly early adopter (1995) of the time...

It has, particularly novellas. Amazon’s program of sets of 5-7 short stories as anthologies exists and flourishes, for example. Tor.com...

I can't quite get past how suggestive the thread title is. That's some strong posting. I'll give it a slow clap.

I try to play something as written before trying to change it. People very much overestimate their ability to tell how rules play at the...

Isekai just means portal fantasy essentially (most literal translation is "a different world") and includes reincarnation, planar...

It'll be interesting to see what comes from Star Wars: Starfighter, but that, or the abandoned Rogue Squadron movie that Patty Jenkins...

Read Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today by Naomi Alderman, which is an excellent discussion of how social media and the modern...

On to the next one. Golden Spoon (Disney Plus, 2022) Golden Spoon is another satisfying makjang drama all about inequality. In that...

"I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which...

“Judge me by my size, do you? And now involved, HR is!”

Luke Skywalker: Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong. And now HR is involved.

With one exception, none of the following are hard "no's", if a friend insisted and had an easier onramp, I'd probably give it a go...

There’s a ton of media I’m not really interested in and therefore don’t consume, but I don’t have strong feelings about it. I haven’t...

A-ma! How did you find EN World!? Sorry, whenever my mother-in-law visits my Amazon Video algorithm gets retrained and I have to scroll...