Posted by Sarah Fimm

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Physics and magic. Elves and aliens. Fantasy and sci-fi. What’s the difference? If you showed a BluRay player to a caveman, he’d call it magic. If you showed a spell-book MIT professor, he’d call it science fiction. While fantasy and sci-fi seem like opposite ends of the literary spectrum, the lines between them can get as fuzzy as the business end of a peach. Some authors have decided to reconcile the two genres’ seemingly insurmountable differences, birthing a hybrid called “sci-fi fantasy.” Or maybe “fantasy sci-fi”? Like magic and science themselves, the genre is defined depending on how you look at it. But no matter how you like at these novels, we can all agree they’re the 10 best sci-fi fantasy books of all time.

The Broken Earth Trilogy

Set on a supercontinent plagued by climate disasters called “fifth seasons,” N.K. Jeminsin’s triple Hugo award winning Broken Earth series is a trilogy of seismic proportions. In the caste society of The Stillness (the continent’s name) the energy manipulating orogenes sit at the very bottom – hated and feared for their abilities. After a particularly powerful orogene caused the most devastating fifth season in recent memory, three orogene women are forced to deal with the social and geological fallout. While the novel appears like a fantasy story on the surface, dig through the dirt and you’ll find the remnants of a technologically advanced civilization buried beneath. It’s a cautionary tale of what happens when people attempt to control a planet, and when a planet fights back.

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Posted by Sarah Fimm

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Time dilation? Quantum physics? FTL travel? I shouldn’t need a degree at MIT to understand what’s going in a book! I want to unwind when reading a novel, not feel like I’m back in school! The only chemistry I’m interested is what happens when two people fall for each other than harder meteors from heaven. I don’t want to live in a rational universe, I want to experience an emotional one. I want 10 sci-fi books for people who hate sci-fi (and science in general) – and these authors have provided.

The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers’ The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet is about a spaceship that tunnels wormholes through the galaxy to facilitate faster than light travel for blah blah blah science science science. No, what this book is REALLY about is the people onboard that ship, not the mission itself. What brought this group of misfits from separate backgrounds together to breathe the same recycled air? And what happens when people start falling in love with each other while cohabitating in a space the size of a submarine? The particulars of wormhole building don’t matter. What matters is the way these characters worm into each other’s hearts, becoming a beautiful and somewhat incestuous found family – like any self respecting spaceship crew should be. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong must have kissed at least once, right?

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Posted by Rachel Leishman

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Sometimes, fanfiction becomes its own thing. You have your Fifty Shades of Grey, the After franchise, and then there is The Love Hypothesis. Originally a Star Wars fic, the novel has earned acclaim from readers and is now becoming its own film!

It isn’t rare that fic based on another franchise or property becomes its own film. Case in point: All three listed above. And now with The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood getting its own adaptation, fans have a lot of feelings on the casting. You’re not getting the Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver reunion you wanted but it does have its own tie to Star Wars and honestly? It’s kind of funny.

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Posted by Melody Heald

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When you order takeout, you expect your food to be freshly prepared, not burnt or spoiled. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case, after one man showed the questionable potato he received from Texas Roadhouse.  

What’s wrong with this Texas Roadhouse potato?

The video kicks off with Texas Roadhouse customer Stephen (@stephenmcrabtree)  standing in his kitchen.

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Posted by Rebekah Harding

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A server shares the “new level of pettiness” he unlocked after a group of teenagers tipped him just five percent on a $100 bill.

In a video with over 1.5 million views, TikToker Gabriel Boyd (@gabrielboyd) holds up a Geek Bar vape pen. He shakes it tauntingly.

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Posted by Rachel Leishman

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Tickets went on sale an entire year early to see Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and you can buy them now, for resale value that is marked up by over 100%. Well, to be fair, it is just for one screening on opening weekend but still.

There are rumors that there are tickets for sale on secondary websites running for over $100. Frankly, I’d wait for any other IMAX screening that will happen that weekend but the fact that these tickets did sell out everywhere that quickly does say a lot about our excitement for Nolan and his work.

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Posted by Jake Kleinman

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In 2015, Marvel Studios was at the height of its power. A second Avengers movie had proved the success of the first one wasn’t a fluke (even if “Age of Ultron” wasn’t quite as well-received). The Marvel Cinematic Universe was coasting towards another major crossover with “Captain America: Civil War,” which would introduce Tom Holland’s Spider-Man and Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther to the MCU. The studio seemed unstoppable, and it was about to take its biggest risk yet.

Released on July 17, 2015, “Ant-Man” was a $130 million blockbuster (cheap by MCU standards at the time). It starred an actor best known for making R-rated comedies as a superhero that casual movie fans had never even heard of. We all know what happened next: “Ant-Man” was a hit and Paul Rudd became Marvel’s latest Avenger, returning to star in two more sequels and various crossovers. 

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Posted by Sarah Fimm

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Heroism is a slippery slope, just ask Paul Atreides from Dune. One minute you’re liberating a planet from colonial rule, the next you’re establishing a tyrannical space empire that will kill the universe’s vibe for millennia to come. At best, heroes are idealistic. At worst, they’re totally delusional. And when they use questionable means to justify their delusional ends? You’ve got a villain on your hands. These 10 fantasy books where the hero becomes the villain are cautionary tales. Don’t let yourself get caught morally justifying the actions of a megalomanic lunatic – it’s never a good look.

Vicious

V.E. Schwab’s Vicious is a story about a pair of best friends who turn from heroes to villains in each others’ eyes. After college chums Victor and Eli discover that supernatural powers and near-death experiences are somehow linked, the pair begin to put in a little morally questionable academic research to prove their joint thesis. It goes, as expected, horribly wrong. 10 years later, Victor just broke out of jail, and Eli is using his experimental abilities to kill off all the world’s supernaturally powered people. These ex-besties were bound to cross paths sooner or later, and like a meet-cute between matches and gasoline, the results are sure to be explosive.

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