Blinks: Reviews; John Scalzi

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» 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

Teenagers Scare the Living Hell Out of Me: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Review Brightburn

September 4, 2019 locusmag 1

Although it’s easiest to describe Brightburn as “Superman, but evil,” it’s a mistake to think of it as a superhero movie. It is, rather, a pretty straightforward horror movie. It stars Elizabeth Banks and David Denman as the Kent-like parents of Brandon Breyer (Jackson A. Dunn), an alien child they find in a crashed spaceship. They adopt and raise Brandon until he turns 12 and starts exhibiting unnatural abilities. Arley:

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