Blinks: Locus event; Ansible; reviews; NYRSF readings; Taser

December 2, 2015August 17, 2017 admin

» Locus hosts a Steampunk Tea Party Fundraiser with Gail Carriger, Dec 5th, 10am – noon, at Borderlands Books in San Francisco

» David Langford’s Ansible 341

» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe’s Gift guide: Satisfying the sci-fi, fantasy fan

» Washington Post: Nancy Hightower’s Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015, by Robinson, Jemisin, Dibbell, Miéville, North

» Guardian: The best recent science fiction and horror — review roundup: Eric Brown on Adam Nevill, Ann Leckie, Dave Hutchinson, David Barnett, William Gay

» Washington Post: Three science fiction and fantasy books we love, November edition, by Emma Newman, Michael Matheson, Christopher Golden

» New York Review of SF Readings host Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, December 8th

» Guardian: one of several posts recently about how how the word ‘Taser’ came from a century-old racist novel– Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

Films

Shadow of a Vampire: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss ‘Salem’s Lot

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Salem’s Lot is the latest entry to the already extensive set of remakes, revisitations, spin-offs, and so on that are based on decades-old Stephen King stories. The list of these kinds of titles is substantial, and it includes 2017 film It with 2019 film It Chapter Two followed by upcoming prequel It: Welcome to Derry; 2019 film Pet Sematary and 2023 film Pet Sematary: Bloodlines; the admittedly very creative and

Commentary Features

The Year in Review 2021 by Graham Sleight

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As Locus’s statistics keep revealing, there’s so much SF and fantasy being published these days that any one person can’t keep track of everything. What I happen to have read in a given year is an emergent property of many things: whether I’ve enjoyed the author’s previous work, whether I’ve had a book recommended to me or seen it reviewed positively, what I happened to notice on a bookshop shelf

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