Blinks: the new Harry Potter; reviews of Crouch and alt-history; Newitz on Older; SF for people who don’t read it

July 31, 2016August 17, 2017 admin

» Publishing News, NY Times: Like Magic, Muggles Make New Harry Potter Play Disappear From Bookstores

» NY Times Book Review: Andrew O’Hehir reviews Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter; also, Jean Zimmerman reviews alternate history novels by Tim Baker, Simone Zelitch, and Ben H. Winters

» Ars Technica: This science fiction novel is a perfect antidote to U.S. election season by Annalee Newitz, about Malka Older’s Infomocracy

» Read It Forward: Science Fiction Books For People Who Don’t Read Science Fiction — Tobias Carroll lists books by Bacigalupi, Faber, Butler, Banks, Mieville, Atwood, Delany, Hall, Brissett, Gibson, Slattery, Hopkinson, Womack, and the Strugatsky brothers

Films

Check Out Any Time You Like: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Cuckoo

December 10, 2024 locusmag 0

Cuckoo is an indie horror creature feature, relying heavily on its isolated location and small cast to effectively create an atmosphere of paranoia and dread. A teenager named Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) moves to a German mountain resort town with her father, stepmother, and stepsister where she meets an eclectic collection of characters—including the owner of the hotel, Herr König; a physician at the nearby hospital, Dr. Bonomo; several half-dressed, vomiting

Roundtable

tangled up in "-punk"

July 23, 2010 admin 1

This is a drive-by post to point out something (I think) is interesting. Steampunk has now started to permeate the knitting/spinning/fiber community, too. Or, at least, a small section of it. The Sanguine Gryphon, a yarn dyer of some fame in the subculture, will be debuting a Steampunk line with appropriately themed yarns and patterns in the Fall. Some of the designers have started to leak their involvement in the

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