Blinks: Neal Stephenson; Di Filippo on Harrison; Terry Pratchett

April 30, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

» Slate’s new Stranger Than Fiction podcast, in which SF writers discuss whether we’re living in the future, begins with Neal Stephenson

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews M. John Harrison’s Empty Space

» South Africa Mail & Guardian interviews Terry Pratchett

Films

Hey, Mr. Wizard! Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Shazam!

April 15, 2019 locusmag 0

With a single magic word, troubled youth Billy Batson (Asher Angel) gains the ability to transform into a superhero adult (Zachary Levi) and back again. What follows is to be expected from teenage boys with new toys as Billy and his foster brother Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer) test the limits of his comically enlarged body. Josh: I laughed a lot at some of those scenes (I’d had a couple beers).

Roundtable

Saturday links

August 28, 2009 locusmag 1

An almost-weekly update: An enormously cute Doctor Who fanvideo. Daniel Abraham’s short story “The Best Monkey” discussed at 84-comment length. (Abraham himself shows up at comment 81.) Frederik Pohl graduates high school. Genreville, Publishers Weekly‘s blog, relaunches on Sep 1 (but there’s some good stuff there already.) Jonathan Lethem on late PKD (70K PDF) Mindblowing sf by women and people of color, listed by K Tempest Bradford. Red > Blue?