Blinks: Brin, Swanwick on Young, Baxter and Pratchett, KSR, Bradbury tributes

June 17, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» Salon: David Brin asks How Will the World End?

» Independent: How We Met: Stephen Baxter & Terry Pratchett

» LA Review of Books: Gerry Canavan reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312

» LA Review of Books has Ray Bradbury tributes by Jonathan R. Eller, Neil Gaiman, Robin Anne Reid and William F. Touponce and by Brian Attebery, John Clute, Rob Latham and Gary K. Wolfe

» Daily Mail: Harry Ritchie reviews Kim Stanley Robinson, Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, China Miéville

» New Zeland Listener: long interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Five New Fantasies by Women — Mary Gentle, Lynn Flewelling, A.M. Dellamonica, Stina Leicht, Liz Williams

Films

RoboMom: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Jung_E

March 6, 2023 locusmag 0

Jung_E frontloads a pile of fairly unnecessary background worldbuilding, but the important bits are that they’ve developed the means to put human brains into robots, and that two major factions have been at war for 80 years. When Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-Joo), one of the best, most inspiring fighters gets killed in action, of course they build a robot that looks exactly like her: Jung_E; and of course they put

Roundtable

polling the hive mind

June 15, 2010 admin 2

It appears that I’ll be going to Readercon, barring rising Creeks, etc. As I’ve not been before (and am generally rubbish at Cons in general but really want to go to this one because it is about books rather than media (not that there’s anything wrong with media)), anyone have any advice about this Con in particular? I do, for the record, have a handle on public behavior in general;