Blinks

Blinks: Beckett, Hand, Allen, Grassman, Fox, Di Filippo, Bacharach

April 17, 2014August 17, 2017 admin

» The Atlantic: Chris Beckett on The Underrated, Universal Appeal of Science Fiction

» Salon: Elizabeth Hand, Saved by Obamacare

» Mike Allen offers three stories from Clockwork Phoenix 3

» Nature has a story by Preston Grassman

» Andrew Fox on The New Immortality of Authors and Books

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William R. Forschten

» HuffPo: Jacob Bacharach on how All Good Books Are Weird Books

Films

All We Ever Were, Just Zeroes and Ones: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss The Matrix Resurrections

January 24, 2022 locusmag 0

And… we’re back! Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) are still stuck in the Matrix. Versions of Morpheus and Agent Smith return, played by new actors (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jonathan Groff, respectively). There are new characters, such as Bugs (Jessica Henwick) and the Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris). Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and the Merovingian (Lambert Wilson) reappear, though their characters are essentially unrecognizable. That’s about it. It’s The

Commentary Features

2018 Year-in-Review by Carolyn Cushman

March 3, 2019 locusmag 0

There wasn’t much that really blew me away in 2018, but some entertaining titles turned up. At the top of my SF reading this year are Martha Wells’s Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy, the last three novellas in the Murderbot Diaries quartet featuring the deadly yet oddly endearing android Murderbot, a corporate-owned security guard that apparently once went berserk and killed humans (hence its chosen name of Murderbot).

Roundtable

Roundtable on Geek Culture

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Roundtable

Roundtable on Space Exploration

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