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This 1969 Ballantine edition of Clarke's celebrated 1953 novel is a curio. The cover art (the artist is uncredited, but may have been Dean Ellis) has taken the actual subject of the book—the coming of …

Over the past two or three months I have purchased so many new DC Multiverse figures! The Toddfather has put out quite a few figures that have interested me (meaning Batman related heroes and villains, …

Perfume PosseJet Setting: Le Labo Dubai, Shanghai and Miami exclusives Well, it’s that time of year again. For a limited time you can get, if you’re a mind to, the city exclusives at your ... …

BOUGHT:Dracula Book 1: The Impaler (Orlok Press) I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand Kickstarter, and how it works in today's comic book publishing field. I mean, the concept of creators crowd-funding …

Last Friday's Savage Krevborna adventure tied up a major arc in the campaign: the characters had been looking for the missing Viktoria Frankenstein and Serafina, and they finally caught up with them.CharactersAria, a paladin struggling …

I came to radical politics too late to see Paul Foot's contribution to the fight for socialism and against injustice in person. By the time I joined the SWP in the early 1990s, Paul Foot …

For a few years now I've been using leger stems for my eel fishing. I know full well that when the line is tightened they don't stand upright, but once the line is out of …

Anyone remember Carl Grayson? Born in Canton, Ohio to Swiss and German Immigrants, his name at birth was Carl Frederick Graub. At the age of 5, he suffered a serious injury when he fell on …

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Partitions and the partition lattice The partitions of a set Ω are partially ordered by refinement: Π1 is below Π2 if every part of Π1 is contained in a part of Π2. With this order, …

Tuesday She shouts “Ooooiiii!” But it’s not the sound that makes his head turn, it’s her hand on his arm as she drags him back to stop him getting hit by a cyclist. With headphones …

Taper, an online literary magazine published twice yearly, is now in its 12th issue. An independent editorial collective (Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, and Andy Wallace, for this issue) …

Sorry, we've already outsourced all editing to the Google Pixel camera. (Edith Pritchett/The Washington Post)I have a dreamI have a solution for The Post's woes: Enlist retired baby boomers as volunteer editors for a day! …

Why are automata so interesting? Automata are so simple that they fit in many places and situations.