happy mutants It’s about Time: Reading Steampunk’s Rise and Roots Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall

video games Gears of War 5 is the most yawningly Gears of War game yet Jason Weisberger

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authors Author Peter Bebergal discusses his latest book, Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural Gareth Branwyn

deep sea suburbia I bought a clock for a quarter and 3D printed new hands for it Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Build it, light it, code it, turn it, fix it, crash it, crush it with Arduino: 3 great deals to get you started Boing Boing's Shop

offworld Black characters in video games must be more than stereotypes of the inhuman Sidney Fussell

offworld The only things you really need to know about Microsoft's E3 press event Leigh Alexander

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

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