Blinks: Sturgeon Centenary; Ansible; WaPo reviews; Edelman and Yang

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Los Angeles Times: Scott Bradfield celebrates Theodore Sturgeon’s centenary

» David Langford’s Ansible 373

» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews S.K. Dunstall, Abbey Mei Otis, Alan Dean Foster

A Burden to Watch: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

November 27, 2018 locusmag 0

We usually start these reviews with a summary, trying to give a sense of what the movie is about without spoiling any important moments. Spoiler: the storyline is too boring to be relayed. The plot is haphazard and unnecessarily convoluted. An honest synopsis would go something like, “random events strung together vaguely trying to look serious just so new magical effects can happen, plus a handful of magical creatures, often

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Una McCormack Guest Post–“Writing Within Boundaries: The Challenge of Franchise Fiction”

February 5, 2015 admin 1

I often think of writing as a process of entering into a contract with your readers: when you persuade someone to read your work, you’re making promises to them that your work will deliver in certain ways. Certain genres, it seems to me, make specific contractual demands on a writer–for example, I doubt that Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is going to end with Henry VIII abdicating and

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Discomfort Reading by Tim Pratt

March 16, 2018 locusmag 0

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The making might be made

February 6, 2011 admin 6

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