Blinks: NYRSF, Ad Astra, Best of 2011, Kepler-22b, Crowley, Ridley Scott, Harlan Ellison

December 7, 2011August 17, 2017 admin

» NY Review of SF probably to go digital after July 2012

» James Gunn’s Ad Astra is open to submissions

» Financial Times’ Favourite Fiction 2011 includes SF titles, selected by James Lovegrove, by Eric Brown, China Miéville, and Adam Roberts

» BBC: Robert J. Sawyer offers some perspective on the discovery of Kepler-22b

» Boston Review: John Crowley reviews Ben Katchor

» Slate: Ed Finn on What Ridley Scott’s otherwise-wonderful Prophets of Science Fiction gets wrong about the future

» Harlan Ellison Books is offering four new Ellison titles, including volumes of essays, teleplays, and his never-before-reprinted second novel from 1960

» Fantastic Literature‘s December booklist is now posted

Films

Check Out Any Time You Like: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Cuckoo

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Cuckoo is an indie horror creature feature, relying heavily on its isolated location and small cast to effectively create an atmosphere of paranoia and dread. A teenager named Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) moves to a German mountain resort town with her father, stepmother, and stepsister where she meets an eclectic collection of characters—including the owner of the hotel, Herr König; a physician at the nearby hospital, Dr. Bonomo; several half-dressed, vomiting

Commentary Features Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley: Fear, Procrastination, and the Thorny Problem of Demanding What You’re Worth

December 4, 2017 locusmag 1

Fear often masks itself as procrastination. I’ve been thinking about that statement more as I turn on my computer every morning and stare at my list of tasks for the day, the week, the month, the year. On top of my writing career, I have a full-time job in advertising, and that’s gotten tougher to balance year-over-year. Our time is finite. Jobs eat a lot of it. Once, I would

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