Blinks: NYT and LAT reviews; Best of year lists; World SF Blog; Odyssey Workshop

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» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Don DeLillo’s The Angel Esmeralda; Nick Owchar reviews Atwood’s In Other Worlds; and Michael Hiltzik explains the copyright controversy over Philip K. Dick’s “Adjustment Team”

» NY Times: Christopher Buckley reviews Charles J. Shields’ book about Kurt Vonnegut; Robert Christgau reviews Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence

» NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2011 include titles by DeLillo, King, Duncan, Murakami, and Russell

» Amazon UK’s Top 10 SF and Fantasy Books of 2011 [scroll down] are by Martin, Abercrombie, Pratchett, Cline, Harris, Rothfuss, Canavan, Ward, Aaronovitch, and Taylor; their Best Books of 2011 ranks Jennifer Egan 2nd and George R.R. Martin 3rd

» The World SF Blog is open to fiction submissions

» Guardian: Damien Walter reviews Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer’s anthology The Weird

» Odyssey Writing Workshop’s 17th Summer Session from June 11 to July 20 2012 is open to applications

Films

Exit, Pursued by a Kaiju: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Godzilla Minus One

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Josh: First off, holy shit. Arley: I agree. This movie was GREAT. They started with unusual characters. You don’t see a lot of movies where the star is a disgraced suicide pilot, for example. Grounding the story with in interesting, relatable characters makes it so that you can actually capitalize on the horror aspects of Godzilla. Viewers can get engaged with the horror that is Godzilla, rather than just being

Commentary Features

2019 by Colleen Mondor

February 10, 2020 locusmag 0

I read a lot of great young adult SF/F books in 2019 and was most struck by the diversity of subjects that came across my desk. There continues (thankfully) to be no dominant theme in YA fantasy, a welcome departure from the past. With the exception of a cluster of titles set in Paris (which is fine; what’s not to like about Paris?), it’s really impossible to point in any

Commentary Cory Doctorow Features

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Roundtable

Roundtable: Fantasy Genres

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