No space ship captain wants to discover that the ship they’ve been saving up for is already inhabited. But what do you do when that inhabitant is a moss-based organic computer with abandonment issues? Moss’d in Space by Rebecca Thorne, which came out earlier this summer, joins the ranks of delightful cozy sci-fi that seems to be a growing trend. Continue reading Review of Moss’d in Space—More Cozy Sci-fi
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Gothic Vocab: The Uncanny
This week I want to continue my series on Gothic vocabulary. You may remember back in November, I wrote about another vocab term—the sublime—which was central to the Romantic era’s conception of the Gothic. This time I want to discuss a twentieth-century term that to this day still crops up frequently in any discussion of the Gothic or of horror more broadly: the uncanny.
