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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">You know the drill by now: new month, new and exciting acquisitions to report for the Eaton Collection. The following two in particular are really important texts
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printing of this Black speculative fiction novel, imagining retribution for the murder of a Black teenager by a white police officer, mixing political thriller with apocalyptic fiction.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><span class="ContentPasted1 ContentPasted3" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: rgb(7, 55, 99);"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></font><br>
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inscribed first printing of this Afrofuturist fable about a wounded Black soldier in the Vietnam War who hallucinates about fighting in major American battles across history.</span></li></ul>
<div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(7, 55, 99);" class="ContentPasted1">I've also renewed our print subscriptions to the following two journals: </span></div>
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<span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(7, 55, 99);" class="ContentPasted1"></span>On Spec: the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic </b></span>
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<span><b>Vector: the Journal of the British Science Fiction Association </b></span></li></ul>
<div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(7, 55, 99);">Speaking of the latter: I'll be taking over as Editor-in-Chief in the next few months and will be actively seeking articles and reviews on sf writ large
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Finally, a new exhibit is now live on the fourth floor of the Rivera Library: 'Transcribing the Imaginary' (part of our 'Power of Language' series). As the name suggests, the exhibit presents a broad range of constructed and imaginary
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