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

Power to the People and the Beats: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Neptune Frost

December 8, 2022 locusmag 0

Actor, poet, activist, and musician Saul Williams writes and co-directs (with Rwandan filmmaker Anisia Uzeyman) Neptune Frost. Variously described as an Afrofuturist-cyberpunk-scifi-musical, the film certainly defies expectations and easy categorization. Neptune Frost connects to Williams’s “Martyr Loser King” multimedia project—originally envisioned as a graphic novel and stage play—which also includes his 2016 studio album. The plot centers on Burundi coltan miner Matalusa (Bertrand Ninteretse), who forms a romantic relationship and

Commentary Features

Books for 2019 by Carolyn Cushman

February 16, 2020 locusmag 0

I read a lot of books in familiar series this year, and only a few really stood out. Ilona Andrews’s Sapphire Flames is a fun start to a new trilogy in the Hidden Legacy series of urban fantasy romances, focusing on Catalina, the second daughter in the heavily armed Baylor family, taking over as Head of the family’s House with her rare but powerful talent as a Siren – and

Features Spotlight

Spotlight on Mur Lafferty, Podcaster

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Roundtable

Roundtable on Space Exploration

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