Blinks: Reviews; John Scalzi

June 5, 2015August 17, 2017 admin

» NY Times: Genevieve Valentine reviews Naomi Novik, Terry Pratchett, Ian Tregillis, the Strugatsky brothers, Nnedi Okorafor, Philip and Carol Zaleski

» Sandusky Register: The biggest science fiction writer in America? He’s here in Ohio

» NPR interviews Paolo Bacigalupi about The Water Knife

» Toronto Star: The latest must-reads are by Neal Stephenson, Nick Cutter, Tesseracts Eighteen, Kit Reed

» Wall Street Journal [subscription site]: Tom Shippey reviews Neal Stephenson, Hannu Rajaniemi

» NPR: Amal El-Mohtar reviews Hannu Rajaniemi’s Collected Fiction

Films

My Whole Existence Is Flawed, You Get Me Closer to God: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Soul

February 9, 2021 locusmag 1

Disney/Pixar returns to the afterlife in Soul, the story of middle school teacher and jazz musician Joe Gardner (voiced by Jaime Foxx) who winds up in a coma after his body and spirit are separated in an accident. While trying to avoid going into the Great Beyond, Spirit-Joe escapes into the Great Before, where newly created souls are prepared for corporeal existence. There he teams up with 22 (Tina Fey),

Commentary Cory Doctorow Features

Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future

January 1, 2012 admin 25

Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This question has a drooling idiot of a half-brother, the strange assertion that ‘‘science fiction is dead because the future is here.’’ Now, I will stipulate that science fiction writers often