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Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
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Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1 by Harry Turtledove
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
The Boogeyman by Stephen King
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The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick
Mono No Aware by Ken Liu
The Exquisitely Bleeding Heads of Doktur Palmer Vreedeez by John Shirley
The Gorgon by Tanith Lee
Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology by Theodora Goss
The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Jaunt by Stephen King
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The White People by Arthur Machen
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Top Games of 2016
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Interview with HappyRock Studios
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Role-Playing Games
Game Narrative vs. Gameplay
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Games & Cultural Engagement
Platformers
Writing "Good" Evil
The Neuroscience of Fear
Aristotle's Poetics
Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Roland Barthes' S/Z
Noel Carroll's Narrative Closure
Myth of the 3 Act Structure
Elisabeth Camp & Autobiographical Narrative
Sigmund Freud's The "Uncanny"
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The Mechanics of Sex & Violence
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Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition
Suicide Squad Extended Cut
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Latest Episodes
Hacksaw Ridge
Fences
Netflix Roulette: Monsters: Dark Continent
Moonlight
La La Land
Hidden Figures
Manchester by the Sea
Lion
Academy Awards 2017 i.e. MOTScars
MOTScars 2017: Interview with Morgan Goldin
Logan
Netflix Roulette: The Hunter
Grandma's Boy
Get Out
Leonard Part 6
Dude, Where's My Car?
The Nice Guys
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Twin Peaks Retrospective
Alien: Covenant
Wonder Woman
eXistenZ
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Dunkirk
Atomic Blonde
Detroit
Logan Lucky
IT (2017)
Blade Runner 2049
#2 The Godfather
#4 Raging Bull
#10 The Wizard of Oz
#13 Star Wars
#14 Psycho
#20 It's a Wonderful Life
#22 Some Like It Hot
#25 To Kill A Mockingbird
#27 High Noon
#39 Dr. Strangelove or: How i Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
#43 Midnight Cowboy
#45 Shane
#52 Taxi Driver
#56 Jaws
#58 The Gold Rush
#65 The African Queen
#66 Network
#73 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
#74 The Silence of the Lambs
#76 Forrest Gump
#84 Easy Rider
#87 12 Angry Men
#93 The French Connection
#97 Blade Runner
#100 Ben-Hur
Mother Death
Kafka-esque
Sudoku of Murder
A Bunch of Guys in the Wilderness
Level Design Blows My Mind
Murder A Lot of People, Have A Lot of Fun
Expendable Crew Herds Big Cat
Does Alfred Make the Batmeal?
Nintendo Hard
Ways of Beating It
Playing A Random Fascist
Maybe Not Donald Trump
Less Star Wars, More Space Truckers
It's No Rock'n'Rolla
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Conner
Pluto Is the Furthest Planet by Abraham Rothberg
We Can Get Them for You Wholesale by Neil Gaiman
Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
Mauricio "The Eye" Silva by Roberto Bolano
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Axiom of Choice by David W. Goldman
The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami
Feliz Aniversário by Clarice Lispector
Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1 by Harry Turtledove
Lich-House by Warren Ellis
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
The Boogeyman by Stephen King
The Shadow Over Innsmouth By H.P. Lovecraft
A&P by John Updike
The Fat Guy by Henry Roth
The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick
Mono No Aware by Ken Liu
The Exquisitely Bleeding Heads of Doktur Palmer Vreedeez by John Shirley
The Gorgon by Tanith Lee
Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology by Theodora Goss
The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Jaunt by Stephen King
Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The White People by Arthur Machen
In the Hills, the Cities by Clive Barker
Top Games of 2016
Comedy Games
First Person Shooters
Video Game Violence & You
Samsung Galaxy Gear/Oculus VR
Interview with HappyRock Studios
E3 2017
Role-Playing Games
Game Narrative vs. Gameplay
3rd Person Action/Adventure Games
Games & Cultural Engagement
Platformers
Writing "Good" Evil
The Neuroscience of Fear
Aristotle's Poetics
Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Roland Barthes' S/Z
Noel Carroll's Narrative Closure
Myth of the 3 Act Structure
Elisabeth Camp & Autobiographical Narrative
Sigmund Freud's The "Uncanny"
Walter Ong's The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction
H.P. Grice's Logic and Conversation
Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Henry Jenkins & Transmedia Storytelling
Ara Shirinian's The Uneasy Merging of Narrative and Gameplay
Lawrence E. Mintz's Standup Comedy as Social and Cultural Mediation
Jacques Derrida's "Differance"
The Fictional Self
Unreliable Narratologists
The Mechanics of Sex & Violence
TED Talks
Ben Smith on Crossfit
Mike Jamieson on Music
Hildy Silverman on Genre Fiction and Publishing
Kather Sei on Acting and Writing
Podcast Movement 2017: Julian Boireau
Podcast Movement 2017 Informal Round Table
Podcast Movement 2017: 'Commander' Cody Boyce
Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition
Suicide Squad Extended Cut
Bon MOTS 2016
Bon MOTS 2015
Syntax Error Season 2
Syntax Error Season 1
A Brief History of the End of Days
MOTS-O-WEEN 2016
MOTS-O-WEEN 2015
Capeless Comics
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March 8, 2017
Steven Ormosi

MOTS Ado About Nothing: The Gorgon by Tanith Lee

March 8, 2017
Steven Ormosi

Recently we read and discussed a short story about the unpredictable nature of adventure. This is our review of The Gorgon by Tanith Lee.

March 8, 2017
Steven Ormosi

Steven Ormosi

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