Blinks: Junot Díaz, Claude Lalumière, SF Concatenation, Odyssey Rap

September 13, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» Capital New York: Junot Díaz on the imperfect perfection of the novel and why genre fiction gets so little respect

» Claude Lalumière invites submissions and suggestions for Tachyon reprint anthology Super Stories of Heroes & Villains

» SF Concatenation’s Autumn 2012 update includes news and lots of reviews

» The Tom Bombadil Rap at WorldCon 2012 by the Odyssey Writing Workshop

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

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Jonathan French Guest Post–“MFA vs…D&D?”

August 30, 2018 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 0

A vagabond, a pit-fighter, a noblewoman, and a dung-collector stand in a crowded square to witness the execution of a dissident madman. Though strangers before that overcast day, the condemned man’s final ravings upon the scaffold will bind them inextricably. Marked to deliver his body safely to a doom-cult, the four hapless individuals discover that failure risks their sanity. And their souls. That was the story hook for a roleplaying

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Roundtable on Reviewing

November 12, 2012 admin 4

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On the Hugos…

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