In 1937, a quiet revolution in storytelling began. George Allen & Unwin published a small book by an Oxford professor—The Hobbit, or There and Back Again—in a modest print run of only 1,500 copies. Every…
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Read MoreThursday, September 21st marked Stephen King‘s seventy-fifth birthday. Born in 1947 in Maine, King was raised by his mother who, with her two sons, moved several times before settling in Durham, Maine. King’s love for…
Read MoreEnglish writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote nearly fifty books throughout the course of his lifetime, including his most famous novel, Brave New World, which painted a nightmarish vision of a dystopian future, and The…
Read MoreThree of the best-selling science fiction novelists of the 20th century, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke are commonly referred to as the “Big Three” of science fiction for their influential work in…
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