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News

Butler’s Kindred Series will premiere Dec 13 [The Root]

Wizards of the Coast going to court to stop racist, transphobic RPG from being sold [Them]

Fiona Apple writes LOTR song [EW]

Interior Chinatown going to Hulu with Taika Waititi [Variety]

Harvey Awards SFF highlights [Book Riot]

Books Discussed

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (cw: self-harm, domestic violence, homophobia, mention of sexual assault)

Lana Harper’s Witches of Thistle Grove series

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (cw: use of ableist language around mental health)

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (cw: sexual abuse, pedophilia, animal sacrifice, grooming, racism)

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (cw: racism)

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