Blinks: VanderMeer; Ed Finn’s Hieroglyph; Mysterious Galaxy events; Kickstarter for “Bears Discover Fire” film

September 16, 2014August 17, 2017 admin

» Sunday NY Times Book Review: Scott Hutchins reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Acceptance; elsewhere in Sunday’s NYT, VanderMeer essays about The Lighthouse Keepers

» Slate: Ed Finn (co-editor of new anthology Hieroglyph) essays about Why our science fiction needs new dreams

» Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego has events this next week with Lauren Beukes, Steven Gould, Chelsea Cain, Anna Carey and Gretchen McNeil, and James Ellroy

Films

RoboMom: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Jung_E

March 6, 2023 locusmag 0

Jung_E frontloads a pile of fairly unnecessary background worldbuilding, but the important bits are that they’ve developed the means to put human brains into robots, and that two major factions have been at war for 80 years. When Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-Joo), one of the best, most inspiring fighters gets killed in action, of course they build a robot that looks exactly like her: Jung_E; and of course they put

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