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Zahra Huselid

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October, 2024
The Lord of the Rings, The Legend of Vox Machina, Discworld
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About Zahra Huselid

Zahra is a jane-of-all-trades, having worked in marketing, healthcare, academia, and a brief stint in a radio theatre troupe. She avidly collects Tolkien esoterica, Gunpla, and DVD box sets of her favorite shows. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Pre and Early Modern Literature from UC Santa Cruz, an MBA from the University of Maryland, and a headache.

Industry Focus

Zahra is a lifelong Trekkie as well as a scholar of Shakespeare and Tolkien. She's also dabbled in tabletop game design and audio production.

Favorite Media

Zahra adores fantasy novels, mecha anime, and crime procedurals. She is a lifelong Trekkie, owns every single Dresden Files book, and has shrines to J.R.R. Tolkien and Shakespeare in her living room. She also has a soft spot for sad dad-rock bands, especially ones from Durham, North Carolina.

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Lord Gaebril (Nuno Lopes) smiling at Siuan in The Wheel of Time Season 3 Ep 2
What Is Compulsion? How Wheel Of Time's New One Power Ability Works

Season 3 of The Wheel of Time has revealed this insidious use of the One Power – and it will have tremendous consequences for everyone in the show.

Collage of albums by The Pogues, The Tossers, and the Dropkick Murphys over the background of an Irish pub
10 Great Celtic Rock Bands Who Are Essential Listening On St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is about a lot more than green beer and public drunkenness – or at least it could be, if you just listened to these Celtic bands.

Best Bob Dylan Covers - showing Frank Turner, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, and Warren Zevon
10 Best Bob Dylan Rock Covers Of All Time

Bob Dylan has long been considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time – and these ten musicians recorded incredible covers of his work.

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Great A'Tuin of Discworld by Paul Kidby
Discworld Never Solves One Great A'Tuin Mystery, But I'm Convinced The Light Fantastic Holds The Answer

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels go deep into explaining all sorts of magical mysteries – except for this one from the very first books.

10 Great Sci-Fi Books Like Severance
10 Great Sci-Fi Books Like Severance

Lumon Industries isn’t the only corporation out there taking advantage of its employees – here’s some books with companies that are just as dystopian.

A collage of dragons from the covers of Dragonflight and Legend of Huma
10 Fantasy Books To Get Your Fill Of Dragons After Reading Onyx Storm

From mindless killing machines to majestic, noble steeds, there are all kinds of dragons in fantasy novels that will appeal to Empyrean fans.

Chappell Roan poses for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, edited over a 1980s graphic background.
A 1980s Musical Icon Just Covered Chappell Roan And It's Better Than It Has Any Right To Be

You won’t believe who recorded this jaw-droppingly good cover of Chappell Roan’s hit single “Pink Pony Club” - but we promise you’ll never give it up.

Chris Pine pointing to something behind him in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
10 Best Fantasy Movies To Watch After Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Fans of pulse-pounding fantasy action have plenty of options if they’re looking to ride the wave of Honor Among Thieves’ brilliant take on D&D.

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Album covers for R.E.M. - Monster, Jonathan Coulton - Artificial Heart, Silversun Pickups - Swoon, New Pornographers - Twin Cinema, and My Bloody Valentine - Loveless over a blue-tinted screenshot from Hulu's High Fidelity
10 Great Bands Who Define Every Major Alt-Rock Genre From Power Pop To Shoegaze

Forged in the fires of anticapitalist sentiment, alternative rock and its subgenres, particularly these ten bands, fundamentally shaped modern music.

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The album art of Abbey Road by the Beatles, with the covers of Cowboy Carter, With A Little Help From My Friends, American IV: The Man Comes Around, and Across the Universe: Music From the Motion Picture superimposed over the four Beatles
10 Beatles Covers That Improve On The Originals

There’s no question the Fab Four wrote incredible songs, but in the years since, quite a few musicians have put an incredible new spin on things.

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Brandon Sanderson looking uncomfortable in front of Galadriel and Elrond from The Rings of Power
"Not A Matter Of The Money": Brandon Sanderson Nails The Real Problems With Modern Fantasy Shows

The beloved fantasy author has a fantastic point - there’s no connection between how much studios are spending and how good the shows actually are.

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A collage of the covers of Vampire Hunter D, Heavenly Tyrant, and The Tombs of Atuan
Already Missing The Stormlight Archive? Read These 10 Epic Fantasy Series While Waiting For Arc 2

There may be six years before the second arc of Stormlight begins, but that just means there’s plenty of time to enjoy these other epic fantasy books.

Sauron as Annatar and Sauron from the Silmarillion illustration over the One Ring on Sauron's finger
How Sauron Made The One Ring In The Lord Of The Rings & What It's Made Of

The Dark Lord of Mordor’s greatest creation was deceptively simple in appearance, but the plain golden ring was also his only weakness.

Mat Cauthon from The Wheel of Time looking smug
Wheel Of Time Season 3 May Struggle To Introduce A Major Book Character Given Where Mat's Story Is Going

Fans of a certain acrobatic thief-taker will be disappointed in Wheel of Time season 3 because it looks like Mat is going to Tanchico instead.

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The cast of Discworld as drawn by Paul Kidby
A New Discworld TV Show Is Long Overdue, And Any Of These 10 Characters Would Be Perfect To Lead It

Each of these characters has a fantastic and unique perspective on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld and would make a fantastic protagonist for a TV series.

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A collage of emo clip art and the covers of four emo/punk albums from 2005 (Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree, Paramore - All We Know Is Falling, Against Me - Searching For A Former Clarity, Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning)
10 Great Pop-Punk & Emo Albums I Can't Believe Are Turning 20-Years-Old In 2025 (F**k, I Feel Old)

Some of these albums have gone multi-platinum since 2005; the only thing most millennials have that’s tripled since then is our student loan debt.

Discworld's Great A'Tuin facing off against a drawing of a real-world conception of a World Turtle
Why Discworld Is Located On The Back Of A Giant Turtle

The most Discworld answer to the question would be “because it must,” but Terry Pratchett’s strange and beloved world has some nuance to be explored.

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The cover art from Ghost's single Dance Macabre with added highlight and a superimposed pop art version of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger
10 Weirdly Uplifting Songs About Death

Sometimes a little memento mori can be a joyful thing, at least when it comes from musicians such as Warren Zevon or the immortal Johnny Cash.

A Dunlending clenching his fist in Lord of the RIngs; behind is a map of Eriador
What Happened To The Dunlendings After Sauron's Defeat In The Lord Of The Rings?

LOTR's Dunlendings were on the wrong side of the War of the Ring, but unlike Sauron’s more devoted servants, they still got a happy ending.

Verity Price looking scandalous and Harry Dresden riding a zombie tyrannosaur over a cityscape of Seattle from Shadowrun
5 Great Urban Fantasy Book Series That Prove Wizards Have Street Smarts

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger – and these wizards in particular aren’t going to let you off easy.

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