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Author: Mallen Clifton

Mallen Clifton is a senior at UC Berkeley studying English and Mathematics. She loves baking, cats, and sci-fi, and harbors a fascination for all things internet.
February 9, 2022February 10, 2022 Mallen Clifton Interviews

An Exchange of Letters: Interview with Grace Lavery, author of Please Miss

I have, frankly, had a sort of self-aggrandizing sense of my own importance since I was a young child. So I've been writing this book all my fucking life.

December 13, 2021December 14, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

Bookstores of the Bay: A Curated List

If you’re looking to find some new shops to explore, or just simply hear about one person’s experiences with bookstores, keep on reading!

September 20, 2021September 21, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

Surfing the Time Wave: Prescience in Frank Herbert’s Dune

Ever since H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, the topic of time and our ability to interact with it has been at the forefront of science fiction.

August 2, 2021July 31, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

Hypertext Fiction: The Literary Genre That Was Theorized Before It Was Written

Think if Wikipedia was a novel, or a Choose Your Own Adventure book existed online.

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021 Mallen Clifton Book Reviews

Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Review of Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

Its characters and events, while sinister, are plausible: an uncomfortable mirror to our own world.

April 5, 2021April 12, 2021 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

To Delete or Not To Delete: Fanfiction and Lost Writing on the Internet

Fanfiction, and literature on the internet in general, raises new sorts of questions about the pitfalls and possibilities of archiving. How do you save not just an artifact, but all the software and hardware that is needed to run it?

November 23, 2020November 22, 2020 Mallen Clifton Book Reviews, Magazine

Stars and Starts: Review of Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The book spins a vibrating tension between silken, lyrical imagery, and anxiety-inducing plot.

October 16, 2020November 5, 2020 Mallen Clifton Commentaries

Four Sci-Fi Novels to Help Reimagine the World Around Us

In the introduction to her groundbreaking sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin rebukes the claim that science fiction is about the future. “Science fiction is not predictive,” she explains, “it is descriptive.”

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