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The Winterlong Trilogy by Elizabeth Hand

Gothic, Grand Guignol-drenched post-apocalyptic science-fantasy. "Febrile" is a word that comes to mind – the language is overstuffed, it's dense with references to fantasy and folklore, and the characters are run through the wringer. Not the last of her novels to feature a transmogrified Washington DC as a primary venue.

Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand

Roman á clef and supernatural romance (in the traditional, not Twilight sense) featuring the hidden war between the Benandanti, a sect of nasty old patriarchal quasi-Catholics, and the forces of Othiym Lunarsa, goddess of a long-suppressed matriarchal death cult. If Camille Paglia ever read this, she probably loved it, but the central story is basically an overheated, fantastic version of Whit Stillman's Metropolitan and so th

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// array utils
// =================================================================================================

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const contains = (() => Array.prototype.includes
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#! /usr/bin/env node
// I am ./bin/buildSitemap.js

const path = require('path')
const glob = require('glob')
const fs = require('fs')

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// @flow

import * as React from 'react';

// inside functional components, you can drop this hook
// and be notified when the modified component re-renders.
// this component will also tell you _why_ it was re-rendered
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// the average frames per second.
//
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