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

Lift Up the Receiver, I’ll Make You a Believer: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss The Black Phone

August 8, 2022 locusmag 0

Finney and Gwen (Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw) are siblings in 1978 Colorado. Finney is a shy boy who wants to be tougher than he is, including wishing he had the nerve to get between his tougher younger sister and their physically and mentally abusive alcoholic father. The kids have to navigate their relationship to each other while dealing with bullies at school and the potential psychic abilities Gwen seems

Roundtable

Roundtable: Genre Accessibility

November 30, 2011 admin 9

A question came up: Has contemporary science fiction become too self-absorbed, or does it still have the capacity to cross over to a mass audience? If so, who are the authors and books that have managed to do so? And who do the folks in our Roundtable discussion group think are likely candidate to break out of the genre and find a large non-genre readership in the future–and why? Cecelia

Features Interviews

Ilana C. Myer: Troubadour Magic

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Commentary Cory Doctorow Features

Cory Doctorow: Full Employment

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