Blinks

Blinks: Potter ebooks, McCarthy reviews, Dirda, Ruff, China

March 27, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» Slate: J.K. Rowling Just Transformed Book Publishing – Potter ebooks run on all major e-readers and tablets

» Guardian: Keith Brooke reviews T.C. McCarthy’s Exogene — also reviewed by Wired’s GeekDad

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda asks Hunger Games vs. John Carter: Are critics wrong?

» Washington Post: Jeff Greenfield reviews Matt Ruff’s The Mirage

» io9: China’s most popular science fiction is about a world ruled by China

Films

Shadow of a Vampire: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss ‘Salem’s Lot

January 13, 2025 locusmag 0

Salem’s Lot is the latest entry to the already extensive set of remakes, revisitations, spin-offs, and so on that are based on decades-old Stephen King stories. The list of these kinds of titles is substantial, and it includes 2017 film It with 2019 film It Chapter Two followed by upcoming prequel It: Welcome to Derry; 2019 film Pet Sematary and 2023 film Pet Sematary: Bloodlines; the admittedly very creative and

Roundtable

Christopher Brown Guest Post–“Truth and Reconciliation and Science Fiction”

August 20, 2019 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 0

The best science fiction I have read this year came in a series of emails from the future. The Training Commission is a collaboration between authors Ingrid Burrington and Brendan C. Byrne, produced with sponsorship from Mozilla. It’s an epistolary work, a fragmented narrative in the form of electronic correspondence from a character on the run in a near-future USA that is both familiar and incredibly strange. Rich with worldbuilding

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