Blinks: Bradbury Square; New Worlds live; Sleight on LoA; Ad Astra submissions

December 10, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» LA Times: David Brin attends the dedication of Ray Bradbury Square in downtown Los Angeles

» Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds is now live

» Washington Post: Graham Sleight reviews Library of America’s two-volume American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (edited by Gary K. Wolfe)

» James Gunn’s Ad Astra is open to submissions for its 2013 issues

Films

Star-crossed Heroes: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss The Suicide Squad

September 21, 2021 locusmag 0

A motley crew of costumed characters with highly questionable morals is compelled – upon pain of death – to undertake a covert military mission in the “island nation of Corto Maltese.” What they uncover is much larger than any of them expected…. The Suicide Squad is exactly the over-the-top bloody, just-ridiculous-enough not-a-superhero movie you need. It’s pretty rare for sequels* to be better films than the originals, but James Gunn’s

Roundtable

Roundtable: Commercial Writing

December 4, 2011 admin 0

This discussion is a follow-on from the two Roundtables posted last week (here and here). The comments below focus on how writing exists in the marketplace, and the adjustments that various writers make to accommodate that fact. Gardner Dozois, Cecelia Holland, Rachel Swirsky, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Guy Gavriel Kay, Gary K. Wolfe, Jeffrey Ford, James Patrick Kelly, and Tim Pratt all feature in the conversation. As always, this discussion is broken

Roundtable

Terry Bisson and Connie Willis in Conversation

March 27, 2011 admin 5

Commentary Features

Tumultuous Pleasure: 2020 in Review by Arley Sorg

February 12, 2021 locusmag 0

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