Blinks: B&N’s, NY Times’ Best of 2017; Le Guin interview; New Republic on Manson, Hubbard, and Heinlein

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» Barnes and Nobles’ Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2017 includes titles by Naomi Alderman, James Bradley, N.K. Jemisin, John Kessel, Annalee Newitz, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jeff VaderMeer, and many others

» NY Times’ 100 notable books includes novels by Omar El Akkad, Victor LaValle, Mohsin Hamid, Paul Auser, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, Naomi Alderman, and N.K. Jemisin, and Edmund Gordon’s biography of Angela Carter

» LA Review of Books: David Streitfeld interviews Ursula K. Le Guin

» New Republic: Charles Manson’s Science Fiction Roots: How L. Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein influenced a murderous cult

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

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Greg van Eekhout: Story Grenades

November 18, 2010 admin 2

Greg van Eekhout was born in Los Angeles and attended UCLA, graduating with a degree in English. He got his master’s in educational media and computers at Arizona State University. After jobs making educational CD-ROMs, developing online courses, and teach English and multimedia at community colleges, he is now a full-time fiction writer and occasional freelancer. He began publishing short fiction with two pieces in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories (1998).