Blinks: John Crowley; Lou Anders on FenCon

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» Lapham’s Quarterly: John Crowley on The Next Future

» Lou Anders reports from FenCon 2011

It’s Not Cheating If It’s With Your Clone: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Mickey 17

March 20, 2025 locusmag 0

Capitalism, in fiction and in real life, depends on expendable (that is, cheap) labor. Slaves, serfs, indentured servants, children, undocumented migrants, gig workers, (now science fiction and real life start to blur) robots, assembly-line automation, “AI.” Mickey 17 extends logically next to clones, which are worked literally to death and then simply reprinted in fresh bodies for their next job. Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) signs on to a colony ship

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Peng Shepherd: Map of Mysteries

October 17, 2022 locusmag 0

PENG SHEPHERD was born April 12, 1986 and grew up in Phoenix AZ. She graduated college early and spent some time traveling, then earned her MFA at New York University. She has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York. First novel The Book of M (2018) won the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction in the Debut category. Second novel The Cartographers

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