Blinks: Grossman on fantasy; reviews of VanderMeer; SF linguistics; Guy Gavriel Kay anniversary

September 9, 2014August 17, 2017 admin

» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman on How Magic Conquered Pop Culture

» Slate’s Mac Rogers reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern Reach’ trilogy: These Amazing Novels Are Like Lost, Except You Won’t Be Enraged When You Finish Them

» New Statesmen reviews VanderMeer: “Intricate, complex and surprising”

» Slate’s DS Bigham: One Planet, One Language: How Realistic Is Science Fiction Linguistics?

» NY Times on dystopian novels: The World Is Ending, and Readers Couldn’t Be Happier

» Chicago Tribune posts columns by Gary K. Wolfe like this one, but you need to subscribe to see them

» Guy Gavriel Kay celebrates 30 years of Fionavar at Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto, September 19th, 7pm

Films

Check Out Any Time You Like: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Cuckoo

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Cuckoo is an indie horror creature feature, relying heavily on its isolated location and small cast to effectively create an atmosphere of paranoia and dread. A teenager named Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) moves to a German mountain resort town with her father, stepmother, and stepsister where she meets an eclectic collection of characters—including the owner of the hotel, Herr König; a physician at the nearby hospital, Dr. Bonomo; several half-dressed, vomiting

Features Interviews

Hugh Howey: Artisanal Publishing

December 11, 2013 admin 4

Hugh Crocker Howey was born June 23, 1975 near Charlotte NC. He moved to Charleston SC after high school, where he worked and attended college. He spent several years traveling the world working on boats, and worked as a roofer and in a bookstore before becoming a full-time writer. Howey began publishing in the small press with the first book in the Molly Fyde/Bern Saga: Molly Fyde and the Parsona

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