Blinks

Blinks: King, Crichton, YA High Fantasy, PKD

November 30, 2011August 17, 2017 admin

» The NY Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year includes, for the first time, a title by Stephen King

» The New Yorker: Adam Gopnik on The Dragon’s Egg: High fantasy for young adults, discussing Tolkien and Paolini

» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Michael Crichton & Richard Preston’s Micro

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Films

Lift Up the Receiver, I’ll Make You a Believer: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss The Black Phone

August 8, 2022 locusmag 0

Finney and Gwen (Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw) are siblings in 1978 Colorado. Finney is a shy boy who wants to be tougher than he is, including wishing he had the nerve to get between his tougher younger sister and their physically and mentally abusive alcoholic father. The kids have to navigate their relationship to each other while dealing with bullies at school and the potential psychic abilities Gwen seems

Features Interviews

Ken Liu: Silkpunk

May 10, 2015 admin 1

Ken Liu (Liu Yukun) was born in 1976 in Lanzhou China. He moved to the US with his family when he was 11 years old, first living in Palo Alto CA before moving to Waterford CT. He was an English major at Harvard, and after graduation worked in technology for several years, including time at Microsoft as an engineer and working for a startup in Cambridge. He attended Harvard Law

Commentary Features

A Year of Looking Backward by Gary K. Wolfe

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Roundtable

Divided by a Common Genre

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