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Burke tells a powerful story about the dangerous hubris of colonialism. Revered as “the Melville of science fiction” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe wrote dense and heady books that aren’t ...

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For an invention so world-changing as the wheel, scholars know surprisingly little about its origin story—but there is no ...

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