Blinks: PW’s Best of 2013; VanderMeer, Simmons; bookstore, end of the world

November 2, 2013August 17, 2017 admin

» Publishers Weekly’s Best SF/Fantasy/Horror books of 2013 are by Bennett, Hamilton, Hartwell & Nielsen Hayden, Heuler, Lee, and Schwab

» NPR talks with Jeff VanderMeer about Wonderbook

» Wired: Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy talks with Dan Simmons about The Abominable

» NY Times: profile of Brooklyn bookstore Singularity & Co.

» Fleetwood Robbins on novels about the end of the world

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

Commentary Features

Saving the World Through Science Fiction, Unless We’re Too Late by Gary K. Wolfe

March 2, 2018 locusmag 0

[Editor’s note: part of our 2017 year-in-review essay series from the February 2018 issue of Locus] According to Barnes & Noble’s year-end summary, if we set aside J.K. Rowling and Rick Riordan, the bestselling genre-related novel of 2017 was Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, followed a few slots later by Stephen King’s It – novels originally published in 1985 and 1986, respectively. Amazon’s list adds Orwell’s 1984 (from way back

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