Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is TIME's book critic and its lead technology writer. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Magicians and The Magician King. He is chaotic good.

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The 10 Tiny Details that Made Star Wars Matter

The first time I saw Star Wars I was really freaking scared.

Meet Your New Pinball, Yo-Yo, and Pokemon World Champions

Perhaps you, like me, did not know that there were champions of these things. Well you knew wrong. Dead wrong.

The Singularity Is Coming; or No It Isn’t; or Wait Maybe It Is!

I was in San Francisco this past weekend, covering the Singularity Summit.

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con: Oh My God Shut Up About Comic-Con

Closing arguments please.

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con Has Left Comic-Con

I gotta go. Comic-Con will have to find some way to get by without me.

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con, Part V: They Are Sex Bob-omb

I saw Scott Pilgrim last night.

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con Goes to Comic-Con, Part IV: Adam Warlock Is Dead

I’ve spent the entire day so far in panels. I present to you my scattered impressions:

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con, Part III: Stormtrooper House Party

It’s Thursday morning, the morning of the first day of actual programming at Comic-Con, and the atmosphere is approximately the same as right before the fiesta starts in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con, Part II: Hope Kills

Just landed in San Diego. Comic-Con opens tonight — you can get into the show floor for a couple of hours for a kind of warm-up look-around deal.

The Guy Who Hates Comic-Con Goes to Comic-Con, Part I

All this week you’re going to be seeing news stories about how great Comic-Con is. So before all that starts I just have to say something.

Singularity: Die You Commie Ghost Mutants Die

Here’s my pet peeve about video games set in Russia. So you know that letter they always use as an R, to make things look all Russian? This one — Я?