Blinks: Reviews; KGB photos; Sawyer interview; PKD storybundle; conventions

September 25, 2015August 17, 2017 admin

» Washington Post: Nancy Hightower reviews John Sandford & Ctien, Zen Cho, Seth Dickinson

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB Sept. 16, with Lawrence C. Connolly and Thomas F. Monteleone

» A Philip K. Dick Award Bundle, a collection of 11 PKD Award winners and finalists, is available for the next 20 days

» AZSF reading series launched this month in Scottsdale AZ

» Fantastic Fiction at KGB hosts Nathan Ballingrud and Fran Wilde, October 21st

» Conventions this weekend: SF:SE 2015 in Orlando; next weekend: Archon 39 in Collinsville IL, and Con-Volution 2015 in Burlingame, CA

Films

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

October 9, 2024 locusmag 0

Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

Roundtable

Jasper Fforde Guest Post—”Genre, Speculative Fiction and the Cradle of Ideas”

February 12, 2019 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 0

I’ve often struggled over giving my books a genre label, partly because I’m not sure that labels are a great idea, nor, to be honest, is genre—which I’ve often decried as “the measles of the book world”. Sure, genre is useful to publicity and marketing, but it’s of no real use, I contend, to readers, and may in fact narrow reader choices rather than broadening them. I’ve often heard readers

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