Blinks: NYT on Hartwell; Ansible; Reviews; Butler; Schoen

February 3, 2016August 17, 2017 admin

» David Langford’s Ansible 343

» First issue of the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction

» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Tim Powers, Johanna Sinisalo, Carlos Hernandez

» io9: LA Celebrates Science Fiction Legend Octavia E. Butler With a Year of Events

» Indy Week: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn: In Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Science-Fiction Writer Lawrence M. Schoen Poignantly Probes Our Relationship With Death

Films

Sufficiently Advanced Tech Bros Are Indistinguishable from Dark Magicians: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Bloodshot

March 25, 2020 locusmag 0

Based on the Valiant comic book series of the same name, Bloodshot is about a US Marine, Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel), who is brought back from the dead through the application of nanotechnology, which endows him with superhuman abilities. The film initially follows all the standard sci-fi action fare as Garrison pieces together what has happened to him, and what he can do now, and it’s exactly as terrible as

Commentary Cory Doctorow Features

Cory Doctorow: The Engagement-Maximization Presidency

May 7, 2018 locusmag 0

Incentives matter. The dominance of ad-supported businesses online created an odd and perverse incentive to “maximize engagement” – to go to enormous lengths to create tools that people used for as long as possible, even when this made the product worse. Think of how Google added a “trending searches” dropdown to the default search-bar on Android, so that any time you went looking for a specific piece of information (the

Features Interviews

Tananarive Due: Sense of Mission

April 16, 2018 locusmag 0

Features Spotlight

Spotlight on: Jenn Lyons

October 14, 2019 locusmag 0

You May Also Like