Blinks: Scalzi on long books; review of Cixin Liu

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Hey, Mr. Wizard! Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Shazam!

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With a single magic word, troubled youth Billy Batson (Asher Angel) gains the ability to transform into a superhero adult (Zachary Levi) and back again. What follows is to be expected from teenage boys with new toys as Billy and his foster brother Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) test the limits of his comically enlarged body. Josh: I laughed a lot at some of those scenes (I’d had a couple beers).

Roundtable

Adam Roberts–Science Fiction Picture Books: or, SF for the very young

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Adam Roberts is a scholar, critic, and author of science fiction. His most recent books include New Model Army, with By Light Alone just out now. He blogs at Punkadiddle, among others. There has been a good deal of work on the crossover between SF and children’s literature—the YA market, after all, is an important one for the genre (Farah Mendelsohn’s exhaustive The Intergalactic Playground is a key research resource

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Jeff VanderMeer: South of Reality

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2018: The Triumph of “Only Different” by Russell Letson

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