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confirming her as a major new voice in science fiction. In the second book of Broaddus’s Astra Black trilogy, a space war seems inevitable. An African diaspora community called Muungano ...

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Fares to play his new game, Split Fiction. I knew the title, and I knew that it was, to no one’s surprise, another co-op game, as has become his calling card after Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons ...