Squid skin inspires new “liquid windows” for greater energy savings
Zoom in / Artist’s impression of a “liquid window” prototype inspired by the texture of squid skin. Raphael Kay, Adrian So Squid and many other...
Could this fanfiction really be the best “Harry Potter” novel?
I lived in transformative fandom spaces for 20 years, give or take, because I was a kid with incredibly unsupervised internet access that wouldn’t let...
The moon falls to Earth in a 1939 novel that remains frighteningly relevant
Comment on this story Comment Late last month the Washington Post reported that a passing asteroid would whiz unusually close to Earth. Luckily for us,...
Review of Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne – the taboos of motherhood | Australian books
wWhile reading Laura McPhee-Browne’s novel Little Plum, I often thought of Catherine Cho’s memoir Inferno, an intimate chronicle of psychosis after the birth of her...
Book Review: ‘Forbidden Notebook’ by Alba de Céspedes
Comment on this story Comment “I was wrong to buy this notebook, very wrong”, declares Valeria Cossati at the beginning of Alba de Céspedes’ brilliant...
New medicine derived from celery seeds given after clot treatment may improve stroke outcomes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 public domain People who had an ischemic stroke (caused by clots) and were treated with a clot-busting drug and/or mechanical removal of the...
The visual novel Tokyo Necro will be released in English this year
An opening cinematic shared today by publisher JAST USA introduced fans to the game’s cyberpunk setting and kinetic cast. In an opening cinematic shared today,...
Author Chitra Banerjee’s new novel Divakaruni explores courage and solidarity in sisterhood
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni One day, a kantha the business sari was kept on the desk of author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s office at the University of...
Kath O’Connor was writing a novel about her grandmother’s Ov…
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The best light novels finished in 2022
In Japan light novels they’ve always had a steady and healthy popularity given the quality stories they’ve produced. Before the medium really had a solid...