Blinks: Collector donates to SDSU; reviews of Rajaniemi, Youmans; Blaylock on steampunk; more

January 31, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

» So Cal collector Edward Marsh is donating his $10-$12m collection to San Diego State University; more at Mercury News and KPBS and UT San Diego

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Fractal Prince

» tomcat in the red room reviews Marly Youmans’ Thaliad

» Huffington Post: James P. Blaylock On Steampunk

» Boston Review: John Crowley: Forget Harry Potter; Adults Should Read Joan Aiken’s Wolves

» Hugo eligibility materials from David Brin and John Picacio

» Ideas Captured interviews Kit Reed

» The Maine Edge’s 2012’s best reads includes titles by Doctorow & Stross and Sawyer

» Telegraph: David Langford briefly reviews McDonald, Scalzi, Smythe, Sigler, Martin

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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

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