Blinks: Stephen King’s family; Sawyer’s Interdisciplinary conference; women in SF; reviews of Sidorova and Stross

August 9, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

» New York Times Magazine: Stephen King’s Family Business

» Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre, is a conference in honour of Robert J. Sawyer’s archival donation to McMaster University Archive Collections, Sept 13-15

» Damien Walter’s Guardian essay about Science fiction’s invisible women gets a response from Arit John at The Atlantic Wire

» LA Times: Elizabeth Hand reviews J.M. Sidorova’s The Age of Ice

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Charles Stross’ Neptune’s Brood

Films

The Name’s Protagonist… Anonymous Protagonist: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Tenet

December 1, 2020 locusmag 0

After a high-stakes operation at an opera house in Ukraine, a CIA agent (John David Washington) is recruited into a mysterious organization, given the codeword “Tenet” as a key to establishing contact with other members. Their objective is to stop an international criminal named Sator (Kenneth Branagh) who uses “time inversion”: a technology which reverses the effects of entropy and essentially causes objects to move backwards in time. The organization

Roundtable

All-Time Novel Results, 2012

December 22, 2012 admin 56

You can find more details on the results and the procedure here; but feel free to comment here. 20th Century SF Novel: Rank Author : Title (Year) Points Votes 1 Herbert, Frank : Dune (1965) 3930 256 2 Card, Orson Scott : Ender’s Game (1985) 2235 154 3 Asimov, Isaac : The Foundation Trilogy (1953) 2054 143 4 Simmons, Dan : Hyperion (1989) 1836 131 5 Le Guin, Ursula K. : The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) 1750 120 6

Roundtable

Lisa Goldstein Guest Post–“Traveling in History”

January 13, 2016 admin 0

Features Interviews

Curtis Chen: Act Out

August 20, 2018 locusmag 0

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