Blinks: Ansible; Dirda on horror and specialty presses; Graedon review; Sawyer on intelligent machines

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» David Langford’s Ansible 324

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda on horror and specialty presses

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange

» BBC interviews Robert J. Sawyer about intelligent machines

Films

Death of a Unicorn Review: A Wickedly Clever Monster Movie? by Erin Underwood

March 28, 2025 locusmag 0

Death of a Unicorn blends fantasy and horror with a weird monster movie twist, but is it enough to refresh a somewhat stale fantasy trope? Written and directed by Alex Scharfman, this A24’s genre-crossing film stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as the father-daughter duo of the story along with a talented cast of supporting actors including Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, and Steve Park among others. A24 is known

Awards Features

SF in Brazil, by Roberto Causo

January 7, 2020 locusmag 0

These are dire times for Brazil’s book market and publishing industry, with the current political and economic crisis extended under the unsympathetic-toward-culture Bolsonaro administration. In 2018, important book chains Saraiva and Cultura filed for the local equivalent of US Chapter 11. Measures included closing up bookstores; firing staff, clerks and booksellers; and withholding payments for publishing houses and other suppliers. In 2019, Saraiva revised its reorganization plan before court. In

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