Blinks: Classroom-friendly The Martian; SF in Bangladesh; SF in China

February 27, 2017August 17, 2017 admin

» NY Times: Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover, i.e., an authorized classroom edition with the dirty words toned down

» Bangladesh Daily Star: Science fiction pulls in young readers at the Ekushey book fair

» New Scientist: Lavie Tidhar, In China, this is science fiction’s golden age

Films

With Great Power Comes Great Fun: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Captain Marvel

March 11, 2019 locusmag 3

It is the distant future: 1995. In this 21st installation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first female-led Marvel movie, Brie Larson plays Vers, a green blue-blooded member of the Kree, a technologically advanced race of aliens who value emotional control. Vers and her mentor, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) lead a Starfleet Starforce secret mission against the Romulans Skrull, a shapeshifting race that has been at war with the Kree

Commentary Features

2018 in Review: Translations, Continuations, and Deviations, by Lila Garrott

February 17, 2019 locusmag 0

2018 has been a good year for the offbeat in speculative fiction. In fact, one of my top books of the year was released as a mainstream literary novel, even though the speculative element is central and necessary: Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation has to contain imaginary pharmacology in order for the protagonist to black out for the lengths of time she considers desirable, without having real-life

Features Interviews

Neil Gaiman: Magic of Fiction

July 10, 2013 admin 1

Features Interviews

Jeffrey Ford: Leviathan

June 11, 2018 locusmag 0

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