Blinks: Marlon James; Karen Tompson Walker

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 LocEditor 0 Comments

» NY Times Book Review: Michiko Kakutani reviews Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf

» Also, S. Kirk Walsh reviews Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers

» Time Magazine: How Marlon James Built a New World in His ‘African Game of Thrones‘

Whatcha Gonna Do With All That Junk? Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Space Sweepers

March 9, 2021 locusmag 0

Down on their luck and drowning in debt, the crew of the spaceship Victory — Captain Jang (Kim Tae-ri), Tae-ho (Song Joong-Ki), Tiger Park (Jin Seon-kyu), and a robot, Bubs (Yoo Hae-Jin / Kim Hyang-gi) — work as “space sweepers,” salvaging broken satellites and other orbital garbage. Society has stratified so much that the poor live on a near-uninhabitable Earth while the rich live in luxurious orbital habitats. The richest

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David Marusek: Under the Alaskan Sky

November 13, 2017 locusmag 0

DAVID MARUSEK was born January 21, 1951 in Buffalo NY, and grew up all over the US. He attended UC Santa Barbara from 1969-73, earning a degree in cultural anthropology. That year he moved to Alaska, where he has lived ever since. He was married and divorced, and has an adult daughter. He has worked in construction, surveying, as a hospital attendant, and an ad salesman, but most of his