Book review:
 Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to Hunger Games. New York UP, 2020. 240 pages. ISBN 9781479806072. Pbk. $16.95.

Abstract We report high-cadence photometry of the ultra-fast ( t 2 ∼ 1.2 days) nova V1674 Her during its rise to maximum light V 6.3) and beginning subsequent decline. These observations from Evryscope Mount Laguna Observatory All-Sky Camera reveal a plateau in pre-maximum curve at g 14 (∼8 mag below peak) that lasted for least three hours. Similar features (so-called halts) have been observed ...