Blinks: Ansible; Butler anticipates Trump; reviews of collections; fantasy writers to read

July 3, 2016August 17, 2017 admin

» David Langford’s Ansible 348

» Mic: This Black Science Fiction Writer Predicted Trump’s Campaign Slogan 16 Years Ago, about Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents

» The Star: Alex Good reviews Eric Schaller, Hugh A.D. Spencer, Ken Liu, David Brin

» Vox: 3 fantasy writers to read while you wait for George R.R. Martin to finish Game of Thrones, about Robin McKinley, Megan Whelan Turner, Ellen Kushner

Films

Witchcraft & Wizardry: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

May 24, 2022 locusmag 0

It’s the third major movie this year premised on a fundamental misinterpretation* of quantum theory! (We also reviewed this one and this one, and there’s at least one more scheduled for later in 2022.) It’s also the third comic book/superhero movie we’ve reviewed this year (with many more on the way), and a sequel to a pretty average film in its own right. So, does Doctor Strange in the Multiverse

Commentary Features

The Casual Embrace by Paul Kincaid

February 26, 2021 locusmag 0

Part way through The Silence by Don DeLillo (Picador) I came across a passage that resonated with me more that it perhaps might have done in other circumstances. One of the characters, in one of those archetypal DeLillo conversations that have the dispiriting and disconnecting feel of overlapping monologues, asks: “Is this the casual embrace that marks the fall of world civilization?” DeLillo’s novella was written before the pandemic that

Roundtable

Scott Westerfeld Guest Post–“Sisters and Family in Spill Zone”

May 4, 2017 admin 0

Features

Photo Story: Bastard Legion

April 26, 2019 locusmag 0

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