Blinks: Bram Stoker Awards winners

June 15, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

Breaking News, via Horror.org: Bram Stoker Awards winners include Caitlín R. Kiernan, Gene O’Neill, Lucy Snyder, Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard, and others. News post Monday.

Films

Another Future Rolls off the Assembly Line: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Terminator: Dark Fate

November 12, 2019 locusmag 0

This review doesn’t need to lead with much of a recap, because you’ve seen it all before: evil AI sends a killer robot back in time to assassinate the future savior of humankind. Plucky human resistance sends a protector back in time to stop the killer robot (from the future!). Carnage. Mayhem. Explosions. The difference this time is that the evil AI is called “Legion” instead of “Skynet,” the target

Features

Sloan at Ars Technica

September 7, 2018 locusmag 0

Annalee Newitz of Ars Technica sat down with author Robin Sloan on August 8, 2018 during the monthly Ars Technica Live event at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland CA to discuss Sloan’s SF novel Sourdough (2017) and his machine learning experiments – including a bot he trained on old issues of SF magazines and programmed to write science fictional sentences. For more, see the Ars Technica website.