Blinks: Reconsidering Roth; Chinese SF; Boing Boing on Amazing; reviews

February 24, 2017August 17, 2017 admin

» New York Times: John Williams revisits Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, in light of the current political situation

» Foreign Policy: How China Became a Sci-Fi Powerhouse

» Boing Boing’s Sci-Fi Sundays: Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958

» Bend Bulletin: Everdeen Mason’s Best science fiction, fantasy books to read in February reviews Kameron Hurley, Vic James, Matt Wallace

Films

Death of a Unicorn Review: A Wickedly Clever Monster Movie? by Erin Underwood

March 28, 2025 locusmag 0

Death of a Unicorn blends fantasy and horror with a weird monster movie twist, but is it enough to refresh a somewhat stale fantasy trope? Written and directed by Alex Scharfman, this A24’s genre-crossing film stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as the father-daughter duo of the story along with a talented cast of supporting actors including Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, and Steve Park among others. A24 is known

Roundtable

All seated on the ground Connie Willis

December 12, 2010 admin 37

A frivolous seasonal parlour game, which is due to Patrick Nielsen Hayden. (Patrick claims it’s Gardner Dozois’s fault, but if we started listing the things in the field that are Gardner Dozois’s fault, we’d be here a very long time indeed.) The question: for what books (whether sff or otherwise), can the title and author be run together to make an unstrained, grammatically correct English sentence? Some years ago, Patrick

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