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An inspiration engine for ideas
notion of theft may be misconstrued to indicate an inherent disparity between original text and slash rewriting
Kristina Busse • Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
jolt of recognition.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Nabokov is in fact a kind of anti-monster. He was willing to have the world think the worst of him. By doing so—by telling the worst story, and letting himself be implicated in that story—he created a way for us to understand, to feel, the enormity of what it is to steal a childhood.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller
to Samuel R. Delaney’s seminal Nova.
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
neither toward
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
“Doogie Howser,