Blinks: Ansible; NYT and Huffington Post year’s bests; review of Herbert; Mythic Delirium

December 2, 2014August 17, 2017 admin

» David Langford’s Ansible 329

» NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2014 include fiction titles by David Mitchell, Michel Faber, Helen Oyeyemi, and Lev Grossman

» Huffington Post’s Best Books of 2014 includes Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven

» Open Letters Monthly: Robert Minto reviews The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

» Mythic Delirium’s December gifts are works by Nathaniel Lee, Rose Lemberg, and Lynette Mejía

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

Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country

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Matthew Theron Ruff was born September 8, 1965 in New York. He attended Cornell University, where he studied English. His senior thesis became first novel Fool on the Hill (1988), a fantasy set at the college, and a Mythopoeic and Crawford Award nominee. He has been a full-time writer ever since. Second book Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997) was a satirical SF novel, and established Ruff’s

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