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

Star-crossed Heroes: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss The Suicide Squad

September 21, 2021 locusmag 0

A motley crew of costumed characters with highly questionable morals is compelled – upon pain of death – to undertake a covert military mission in the “island nation of Corto Maltese.” What they uncover is much larger than any of them expected…. The Suicide Squad is exactly the over-the-top bloody, just-ridiculous-enough not-a-superhero movie you need. It’s pretty rare for sequels* to be better films than the originals, but James Gunn’s

Roundtable

Where are the WOACAs?

October 28, 2009 locusmag 8

A recent Making Light post by Teresa Nielsen Hayden about her invisibility at Home Depot got me to thinking about women of a certain age,* one of which I am rapidly becoming. Not only are we difficult for Home Depot employees to see, we also seem to be largely invisible in science fiction as well. ** In fact, I’m not sure I can think of more than a half-dozen. And

Features Interviews

Kate Heartfield: Timelines

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Commentary Features

2017 Year-in-Review by Gardner Dozois

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