Blinks: James Tiptree Jr.; Hugo Results summaries; Reviews

August 25, 2015August 17, 2017 admin

» August 24th was James Tiptree, Jr.’s 100th anniversary: Conceptual Fiction; Letters to Tiptree by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com; Tachyon Publications

» Summaries of Hugo Awards results and attendant issues at Wired, Boing Boing, Wall Street Journal, and Slate.

» Reactions to the first Hugo Award to a Chinese writer: NYT: Science-Fiction Prize Is Awarded to Chinese Writer for First Time; WSJ: Cixin Liu Becomes First Asian to Win Hugo Award for Science Fiction

» Washington Post: Nancy Hightower reviews China Miéville, N.K. Jemisin, Aliette de Bodard

Films

Ghostride the Whip: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Wonder Woman 1984

January 14, 2021 locusmag 1

Some 70 years or so after the events of Wonder Woman, 1984 finds the titular hero (Gal Gadot) whiling away her time curating artifacts and impressing mortals with her beauty and charm. She seems to be keeping a low profile, at least until struggling entrepreneur Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) acquires an ancient magical device and threatens to destroy the world in his quest for ultimate power. Wonder Woman must find

Features Interviews

Kim Harrison: Secret Identity

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Kim Harrison, who began her career writing as Dawn Cook, grew up near Ann Arbor MI. As Dawn Cook she published high fantasy First Truth (2002), followed by sequels Hidden Truth (2002), Forgotten Truth (2003), and Lost Truth (2004). She also wrote fantasy The Decoy Princess (2005) and sequel Princess at Sea (2006). In 2004 she began publishing The Hollows, her bestselling urban fantasy series about witch Rachel Morgan, as

Roundtable

28 days later

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Cory Doctorow: Audible, Comixology, Amazon, and Doctorow’s First Law

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