Blinks: Readercon, ComicCom, Library of America, King, Brin, Scalzi, Hurley, reviews

July 17, 2012September 6, 2017 admin

» Readercon: photos by Ellen Datlow; photos by James Patrick Kelly

» The Library of America, which will publish American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s, edited by Gary K. Wolfe, in September, has posted this companion site, with essays by Wolfe, Silverberg, and Malzberg, plus a cover gallery and timeline; at NYTimes, Dave Itzkoff blogs about it

» LA Review of Books: Sarah Langan’s Killing Our Monsters: On Stephen King’s Magic

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews David Brin’s Existence – considering the “The Great Global Near-Future Science Fiction Novel”

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Glen Duncan’s Talulla Rising

» Dr. Amy H. Sturgis will be teaching online interactive course Science Fiction Part 1: From Modern Beginnings to the Golden Age, for the Mythgard Institute at Signum University; registration is now open

» NPR interviews John Scalzi about Redshirts

» LikeTheDew.com interviews Kameron Hurley

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Zack Parsons, N.K. Jemisin, The Weird, and David Elroy Goldweber

Films

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

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Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

Roundtable

Roundtable: Intersectionality and Lovecraft

January 19, 2012 admin 14

These comments were part of the discussion on Intersectionality (Part 1 and Part 2), but I thought they might make an interesting series on their own. Stefan Dziemianowicz This puts me in mind of the recent controversy (now entirely moot) over Guillermo del Toro’s plan to put a female character in the period geological expedition in his adaptation of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, even though there was no

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