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graphic novels "Laguardia," by Nnedi Okorafor, is a comic book set in the context of not-so-futuristic conservative fascist forces A.E. Gómez

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animation "What if you could grow a building from a seed?" Watch this animation about X, the moonshot factory David Pescovitz

marketing If you want Oreo to stop releasing weird new flavors, stop buying them Thom Dunn

asteroids OREO built an asteroid-proof Oreo bunker in the Arctic Thom Dunn

science fiction Chinese government releases new guidelines for science fiction Thom Dunn

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law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow