Blinks: Slates reviews; Starship symposium; Jeanne Beckwith; Paul Levinson

May 4, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

» Slate’s Book Review: Jenny Hendrix reviews three novels by Sjón; Annalee Newitz reviews Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow

» UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination presents symposium Starship Century, May 21-22, with Freeman Dyson, Neal Stephenson, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman, and others

» A new play by Jeanne Beckwith, Shot in Baghdad, will be presented in a staged reading in San Francisco, May 14

» Paul Levinson has published Unburning Alexandria, sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates

Films

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

October 9, 2024 locusmag 0

Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

Features

Year-in-Review: 2020 Magazine Summary

February 15, 2021 locusmag 0

For the summary, the genre magazines are primarily sorted by Hugo Eligibility: Professional, Semiprozine, etc., and then loosely by pay rate, SFWA qualifying market, and the amount of fiction published. We covered 81 magazines, 18 audio sites, and 11 critical magazines. It’s no surprise that many magazines shut down this year, several went into hiatus or shifted to digital only, but we still added a few new markets to our

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