Blinks: Reviews; KGB photos; Concatenation

April 24, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jim Steinmeyer’s Who Was Dracula?; Amy Benfer on The Little Prince at Seventy; Paul Di Filippo reviews Paul Cornell’s London Falling

» LA Review of Books: Paul Di Filippo reviews George Saunders’ Tenth of December

» Winnipeg Free Press reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s Red Planet Blues

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB April 17th with Richard Bowes and Alaya Dawn Johnson

» Concatenation‘s Summer edition includes news, columns, articles, reviews

Films

My Tapeworm Tells Me What to Do: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Venom: Let There Be Carnage

October 18, 2021 locusmag 0

Reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is washed up. Worse, he and his alien symbiote, Venom (also Tom Hardy), aren’t getting along too well. In classic serial killer movie fashion, incarcerated murderer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) declares that he’s willing to reveal where the bodies are buried but will only talk to Brock, who seizes the opportunity to try to get his career back on track. During one of their visits,

Roundtable

Russell Letson: Take-out, with pickle & extra napkins

February 6, 2009 locusmag 2

Like Gary, I’ve never felt comfortable with “best” lists—too linear, too one-dimensional, too competitive. (I don’t have any problems with making comparative judgments, but ranking an arbitrary set of works always struck me as, well, arbitrary.) And, as he said, who do I think I am anyway? Gary’s second question, about audience(s), is exactly on point… The Locus readership is hardly representative of the whole range of consumers of science