Month: December 2023

Grandmother Knows All the Devil’s Pressure Points Donate to Keep Electric Literature Free! Electric Literature published over 500 and writers and nearly 600 articles in 2023—all of which are free for you to read. EL’s archives of thousands of essays, stories, poems, and reading lists are also free. We need you to contribute to keep
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Ian Randall reviews Communications Breakdown: SF Stories about the Future of Connection edited by Jonathan Strahan Modern apocalypse Communications Breakdown is a science-fiction anthology that imagines the future of connection – and what happens when such technology goes wrong. (Courtesy: iStock/BitsAndSplits) “A sight never to be forgotten.” “Heaven became illuminated.” “Nothing could exceed the grandeur
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Donate to Keep Electric Literature Free! Electric Literature published over 500 and writers and nearly 600 articles in 2023—all of which are free for you to read. EL’s archives of thousands of essays, stories, poems, and reading lists are also free. We need you to contribute to keep it that way. Please make a donation
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The Family Game I Never Wanted to Win Laird Barron Share article Donate to Keep Electric Literature Free! Electric Literature published over 500 and writers and nearly 600 articles in 2023—all of which are free for you to read. EL’s archives of thousands of essays, stories, poems, and reading lists are also free. We need
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A new frequency comb setup can capture the moment-by-moment details of carbon dioxide gas escaping from a nozzle at supersonic speeds in an air-filled chamber, followed by rapid oscillations of gas due to complex aerodynamics within the chamber. The data plot shows the absorbance of light (vertical) over time (horizontal left to right) across a
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Green credentials: the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, took place between 30 November and 12 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (courtesy: Ministry of Environment – Rwanda) The UN’s COP28 conference in Dubai is over. Government delegations have shaken hands, packed up and flown home. Journalists, lobbyists and campaigners have filed their last report, eaten
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Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the memoir Pretty by KB Brookins, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on May 28, 2024. Preorder the book here. By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the
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From classics like The Godfather and Jaws to modern marvels like The Notebook, Game of Thrones, and Crazy Rich Asians, many of history’s greatest films and TV shows began as novels. A well-written book provides the ultimate Hollywood source material, with complex characters and an engrossing plot that, when read, already plays like a movie
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For six minutes Wisconsin husband, farmer, and writer Philip Hasheider was dead. He met all the requirements: heart not beating, lungs no longer breathing, skin an ashen-color turning blue. He was lifeless, flat on the floor. This extraordinary story of his Near Death Experience (NDE) is about the events on an early October morning leading
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Stable skyrmions: First-principles calculations of the skyrmion-stabilizing Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in pristine (bottom) and oxidized (top) Fe3GaTe2-x enabled the team to understand why the skyrmions that form (right) are so robust. (Courtesy: H Chang) Researchers in China have produced a phenomenon known as the giant skyrmion topological Hall effect in a two-dimensional material using only a
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