Blinks: Ansible, Elizabeth Hand, Steven Millhauser

September 2, 2011August 17, 2017 admin

» Dave Langford’s Ansible 260

» Elizabeth Hand will be Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida next year; deadline for application is October 21, 2011

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Steven Millhauser’s We Others

Films

My Whole Existence Is Flawed, You Get Me Closer to God: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Soul

February 9, 2021 locusmag 1

Disney/Pixar returns to the afterlife in Soul, the story of middle school teacher and jazz musician Joe Gardner (voiced by Jaime Foxx) who winds up in a coma after his body and spirit are separated in an accident. While trying to avoid going into the Great Beyond, Spirit-Joe escapes into the Great Before, where newly created souls are prepared for corporeal existence. There he teams up with 22 (Tina Fey),

Commentary Features

2018: A Year on Edge by Paul Kincaid

February 25, 2019 locusmag 0

It’s been a hard year. The rule of ignorance and selfishness in Trump’s America; the wilful destruction of economic probity at the behest of perceived (and probably illusory) political necessity in Brexit Britain; the continued rise of the far right in Hungary, Poland, Italy, France, and elsewhere. All of this is, at some point, going to feed through into a wave of fictions built around the ongoing sense of fear

Conventions Features

2020 SFWA Nebula Conference

July 1, 2020 locusmag 0

Features

2018 Hugo Voting Report

October 10, 2018 locusmag 0

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