Blinks

Blinks: GRRM, Westfahl interviewed, charity auction, reviews

September 16, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» George R.R. Martin is a guest on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” this weekend

» Air and Space Smithsonian magazine interviews Gary Westfahl about his book The Spacesuit Film

» A charity auction to be Tuckerized in absurdist/pulp/science fiction/surreal novel by Rhys Hughes ends today

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Peter Dickinson

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Weller, Novak, Wilson

Films

Digital Girl in an Analog World: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss M3GAN

January 18, 2023 locusmag 0

Plenty of other killer robot and creepy doll movies to make comparisons to—take your pick—and from the trailer you can pretty much predict the arc of the plot. But there’s something about M3GAN. It seems to have taken on a life of its own. M3GAN is constructed from very basic building blocks: Orphaned girl’s (Violet McGraw) aunt (Allison Williams) gives her a robot (Amie Donald/Jenna Davis) as a replacement for

Features Interviews

Isobelle Carmody: Chronicles

March 8, 2013 admin 0

Isobelle Jane Carmody was born June 16, 1958 in Wangeratta Australia. She moved to Melbourne at age five, but grew up mostly in Geelong. She studied journalism at university, and worked as a feature reporter for the Geelong Advertiser before being published as a fiction writer. She is best known for her YA SF series the Obernewtyn Chronicles, which includes Obernewtyn (1987), The Farseekers (1990), Ashling (1995), The Keeping Place

Commentary Features

SF Crossing the Gulf—In Conversation with Nathan Ballingrud

March 29, 2019 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 0

Roundtable

Doorbell! Speculative Poetry Tucked into a Basket on Speculative Fiction's Front Porch

June 7, 2012 admin 5

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