Blinks

Blinks: NPR’s Top 100, Tea Party, Vinge, reviews

August 11, 2011August 17, 2017 admin

» NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books, results of 60,000 votes, are led by J.R.R. Tolkien and Douglas Adams

» The Smart Set: Nick Mamatas’ Paperpack Politics: Insectoids, teenage moon gangs, and the Tea Party

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Daniel H. Wilson, Lisa Goldstein, Grant Morrison

» PW: Adam Lipkin interviews Vernor Vinge

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Lev Grossman’s The Magician King

Films

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

April 15, 2019 locusmag 0

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).

Features Interviews

Blake Charlton: Forward & Backward

January 15, 2017 admin 0

Blake Randolph Charlton was born December 30, 1979 ‘‘on Stanford campus, quite literally,’’ where his parents were faculty in psychiatry. He was diagnosed with dyslexia in kindergarten and spent much of elementary school in special ed classes. He excelled at sports, but at age 12 still couldn’t read a book on his own, until a love for SF and fantasy led him to books by Robert Jordan, Ursula K. Le

Roundtable

Mike Allen Guest Post–“Stranger than Strange”

September 12, 2014 admin 0

Features Interviews

Rudy Rucker: Quantum Wetware

June 12, 2013 admin 0

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