Blinks: WSJ Best SF of 2018; Scott Edelman

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey’s Science Fiction: Best of 2018 are books by John Marrs, Arwen Elys Dayton, Cixin Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Chandler Klang Smith

» Scott Edelman dines with Stephen Kozeniewski

Great Clown Pagliacci Is in Town Tonight: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Joker

October 23, 2019 locusmag 0

Simply put, Joker is the story of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) and his transition from sadsack to supervillain. Josh: Need we say more? Everyone already knows the gist of the Joker. Arley: It’s important for people to know that this is not a Batman movie. You should not expect supervillain fights. The film mostly delivers on what’s promised in the trailers: a one-man show about a violent clown. With striking

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Cory Doctorow: A Prose By Any Other Name

May 3, 2012 admin 8

Back in 2005, I did something weird. I decided that I would embark on a project to write short stories with the same (or similar) titles to famous science fiction books and stories. My initial motivation for this was Ray Bradbury objecting to Michael Moore calling a movie Fahrenheit 9/11, which led Bradbury to call Moore an ‘‘asshole’’ and a ‘‘horrible human being’’ who’d ‘‘stolen’’ the title. Like many other