Apsara Engine by Bishakh Kumar Som6/1/2023 And also, this edition of The Annual Thing will be a little different from those in the past. Been awhile, eh? I'm exactly three years late with this thing. (Did you know that Cross Game is now out of print? Isn't that just insane?) (Just pretend I'm not speaking from experience here.) I guess also, a good chunk of those 2016 under-the-radar critical masterpieces might even be out of print now. Except for that a 2016 critic was already gearing up to start reading 2017 books, and any 2016 books they read in 2017 they've probably forgotten ever existed because it wasn't part of their year-end list. Nobody wants to read today in 2023 a list of the best graphic novels of 2016, even though a critic today in February 2023 would have a much better chance of having read all the good stuff from 2016 than a critic in December 2016. Recent films, recent games, recent books, recent songs. We're trained and we in turn train each other to only truly perk our ears up when discussing the recent. We're all too much prisoners of the cult of the new. Pity the books that came out in the pandemic years.
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