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Fri Oct 31 2025 | Stephen King's least scary novel might be his best
Wed Oct 29 2025 | TikTok prophet predicts the apocalypse is coming... tomorrow
Mon Oct 27 2025 | Humanoid robots — no longer a sci-fi fantasy?
Fri Oct 24 2025 | "Please, would you be so kind as to spit my friend out?"
Wed Oct 22 2025 | "Howard Roark laughed."
Mon Oct 20 2025 | Dickens wins 1859 Gasper Award for Longest Opening Sentence
Sun Oct 19 2025 | "May I propose, sir, that you delay my abduction until we have..."
Fri Oct 17 2025 | Thoreau: "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"
Thu Oct 16 2025 | The Libertarian Futurist Society: For lovers of freedom and fantastical fiction
Wed Oct 15 2025 | "...a dollar fifty in poll tax is naught so cruel compared to a Scotsman’s rent..."
Tue Oct 14 2025 | A Syrian refugee tells me whether politicians are good, bad or incompetent
Mon Oct 13 2025 | Was I too hard on Trump(Rx)?
Sun Oct 12 2025 | "I'm grateful for the smiles and the times I hit the dirt"
Fri Oct 10 2025 | A deathly fourth "secret" to Stephen King's prolific output
Thu Oct 9 2025 | Stephen King reveals two secrets to his terrifying success
Wed Oct 8 2025 | Stephen King on a "goodish length" for a novel
Tue Oct 7 2025 | 60,000 unexpected words
Mon Oct 6 2025 | "the soft stuff that is really important"
Sun Oct 5 2025 | Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin
Fri Oct 3 2025 | TrumpRx: Making the clincally insane appear mundane
Thu Oct 2 2025 | The "inside out" advantage of novels over movies
Wed Oct 1 2025 | Blueskyers call for the assassination of JK Rowling