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

Intergalactic, Planetary: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

June 2, 2023 locusmag 0

The usual suspects assemble for another adventure: Drax (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), Nebula (Karen Gillan), and Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) are hanging out in their space pirate cove within the hollowed-out skull of a dead celestial being. Everything’s been going great lately. They’ve redecorated, they’re enjoying music, and they’ve made a bunch of new friends including a telekinetic Soviet

Commentary Features

Year in Review, 2019 by Graham Sleight

February 28, 2020 locusmag 0

Over the past few years, I’ve been talking here about a couple of recurring ideas on the shape of the SF and fantasy world. For instance, the notion that these fields are increasingly a pluralism and that there’s no default way that one should expect an SF/F novel to be written; that interplay between “genre” and “mainstream” writers of the fantastic is increasing, fruitfully; and that “science fiction” and “fantasy”

Roundtable

Science + Art = Awesome

February 21, 2011 admin 0

Roundtable

Roundtable: Conventions Part I, Going Pro

August 10, 2011 admin 5

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