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

Clash of the Titans: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Godzilla vs. Kong

April 28, 2021 locusmag 0

In our review of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, we said, “The weakness of this movie was the humans and the strengths were the monsters, and there were not enough monster moments.” Well. The movie studios listened. Godzilla vs. Kong centers the monsters more than ever, not only offering several fight scenes of decent length and in varying locales, but even developing a story arc for Kong: this monster isn’t

Features

Year-in-Review: 2017 Magazine Summary

February 26, 2018 locusmag 0

[Editor’s note: This is the first time we have run the yearly Magazine Summary online. Text has been edited for formatting.] The short fiction market was strong throughout 2017. We added a few online markets to our review, though we did see a number of print markets shift to online only (that sticky distribution problem) and a number of venues went on hiatus or closed because of financial difficulties. The

Features Interviews

Kim Stanley Robinson: Forward the Future

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Features Interviews

Gene Wolfe: Engineering the Future

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