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Blinks: Reviews of Gibson, King, Dellamonica, and others

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» LA Review of Books: Paul Graham Raven reviews William Gibson’s The Peripheral

» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Stephen King’s Revival

» Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Dellamonica, Lindskold, and Johansen

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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Cory Doctorow: Moneylike

September 5, 2022 locusmag 4

“Five thousand quatloos that the newcomers will have to be destroyed.” Quatloos. Credits. Euros. Dollars. Dogecoin. Wait, Dogecoin? At some point in your life, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is money?” There’s something existential about pulling a bank-note out of your wallet and asking yourself, “Why does so much of my waking life revolve around getting more of these slips of green paper?” (Outside of the USA, you may ask