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I’ve been obsessed with space since I was young. My dad and I would look at the stars outside together on the nights when we both couldn’t sleep (insomnia seems to run in the family), and we had the SETI…

Perhaps I am staring off on a melodramatic note, but if you’ve read any of my blogs or spoken with me for more than 4 seconds, you know I tend to lean hard into hyperbole and dramatics. And again, I’m…

Everyone I knew that has seen Everything Everywhere All At Once in theaters raved about it. They told me to go see it immediately, but they couldn’t really tell me about the movie without spoiling some aspect of it. Now,…

Hopefully, without sounding as though I’m disparaging Extended Universe or media tie-in novels, The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack is, technically, a Star Trek novel. However, you can ignore that entirely for the purposes of this book and this…

I can distinctly remember the first book I abandoned without completing it, sometime in mid-high school. Until that point, and still to this day to a lesser extent, I had refused to quit a book, regardless of how little I…

What Are Adaptations? I may be cheating slightly by including “adaptations” as a genre. In general, genre refers to stylistic and artistic categories—something that has been adapted could come from any genre background. However, there is an art to taking written works and making…

SUMMARY Tucked away behind a notorious house of ill repute, there is a garden where the trees are grown from bones and nourished by the darkest of secrets. The clattering, ghastly harvest is tended to by the women who live…

Now that we have arrived into the sweltering humidity of July, we have not only passed the halfway mark for the year 2022, but also the halfway point for this year’s Summer Adventure Program. July 5, on a personal note,…

Let me start this mini-lecture with some definitions, so we’re all on the same page with how certain terms are being used below: Genre: A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style…

Hello, my name is Eyan, my pronouns are He/Him, and I use Mx. as a formal address when necessary (instead of Mr. or similar, and one day, I will be Dr. instead). I am openly transgender and switched to masculine…