Blinks: Writers Who Don’t Write Talks to Three Star Wars Novelists

December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 locusmag 0 Comments

» Writers Who Don’t Write: Jeff Umbro and Kyle Craner talk to novelists Ken Liu, Claudia Gray, and Delilah Dawson about their experience writing within the Star Wars universe.

Look Out! Here Comes the Spider-Clown: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss It Chapter Two

September 18, 2019 locusmag 0

Chapter two of Stephen King’s epic horror story opens 27 years after the members of the Losers Club — Bev (Jessica Chastain), Bill (James McAvoy), Richie (Bill Hader), Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), Ben (Jay Ryan), Eddie (James Ransone), and Stanley (Andy Bean) — defeated Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård) in 2017’s It. Now, evil has resurfaced in Derry ME, and the seven friends must return to their childhood town to… again

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Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me

January 7, 2019 locusmag 26

The Silicon Valley gospel of “disruption” has descended into caricature, but, at its core, there are some sound tactics buried beneath the self-serving bullshit. A lot of our systems and institutions are corrupt, bloated, and infested with cream-skimming rentiers who add nothing and take so much. Take taxis: there is nothing good about the idea that cab drivers and cab passengers meet each other by random chance, with the drivers