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A Tense Traveller Awaits a Crucial Meeting in This First Look at West Africa-Inspired Fantasy Son of the Storm
A new epic fantasy begins this spring with Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Son of the Storm, the first book in the Nigerian author’s Nameless Republic trilogy, which takes inspiration from pre-colonial West Africa. Today, Gizmodo has a first look at the stunningly beautiful cover, and a first peek inside this exciting new title.
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Peek Into Cursed Objects and Learn All About the World’s Weirdest and Unluckiest Things
Sometimes a doll is just a doll. But sometimes, it’s a doll with a history so creepy and a general aura so unsettling that it’s elevated into a rare pantheon of notoriety. J.W. Ocker investigates stories like these — and many more! — in his new book Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the…
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Star Wars Ventures Deep Into Thrawn’s Past in This Ascendancy: Chaos Rising Excerpt
In Star Wars’ current canon, we’ve seen Thrawn’s rise as one of the Empire’s most cunning Grand Admirals. Books have shown us how he left his homeworld and the unknown regions to explore “our” side of the Star Wars galaxy, but Timothy Zahn’s latest trilogy is delving back into that past, and Gizmodo has a…
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Read Creatures of Charm and Hunger: Chapter 28
Two years ago, Gizmodo shared author Molly Tanzer’s Victorian fantasy novel Creatures of Will & Temper in serialised excerpts. And now we’ve got good news for fans of the author, not to mention fans of free books: We’re doing it again, with her newest title! Check out chapter twenty-eight today.