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The punch that changed Mortal Kombat history

Enlarge / The raw power of a new Mortal Kombat cabinet was hard to contain… David L. Craddock’s Long Live Mortal Kombat goes behind the scenes to reveal untold stories from the making of the first four Mortal Kombat games and explores how the franchise impacted popular culture. In this excerpt from the book, two […]

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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary and the soft, squishy science of language

Enlarge / Artist’s impression of either understanding being achieved or intergalactic war being incited, I’m not sure which. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Andy Weir’s latest, Project Hail Mary, is a good book that you’ll almost certainly enjoy if you enjoyed Weir’s freshman novel The Martian. It’s another tale of solving problems with science, […]

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The Martian’s Andy Weir is back to form with Project Hail Mary

Enlarge / Cover art from Project Hail Mary. (credit: Ballantine Books) Project Hail Mary, the latest from science fiction author Andy Weir, is a lot like Weir’s first novel, The Martian. It’s a rapid-fire romp through insurmountable problem after insurmountable problem, focusing on a protagonist who quips his way through each issue with snappy first-person narration […]