What ‘Dead-End Job’ Knows About Korea
The agency that finds people jobs of horror is portrayed as the most honest part of life in the country
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‘The Knights of Guinevere’ Takes Us Into the Backrooms of Not-Quite-Disney
Glitch Studios brings a new nightmare drip for the kids
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‘Exit Party’ Provides Parties but Surprisingly Little Exit
Emily St. John Mandel is back with a novel of parallel worlds
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It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New
Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire
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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’
Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy
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‘The Testaments’ Brings Us Back to Gilead
In the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller take us to finishing school
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The Sci Fi Short Story That Rocked Wall Street
Citrini became famous overnight by its dystopian tale of artificial intelligence
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We Remain Largely Undefined
‘The Definitions’ turns amnesia into an unsettling mirror of our own era of disappearing history and manufactured truths.
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‘The Emergency’ Can’t Outrun Its Own Allegory
George Packer’s new novel aims for Orwell and Huxley but that’s a high bar
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