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‘

Ghostride the Whip: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Wonder Woman 1984

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Some 70 years or so after the events of Wonder Woman, 1984 finds the titular hero (Gal Gadot) whiling away her time curating artifacts and impressing mortals with her beauty and charm. She seems to be keeping a low profile, at least until struggling entrepreneur Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) acquires an ancient magical device and threatens to destroy the world in his quest for ultimate power. Wonder Woman must find

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Horror Round-Up 2018 by Ellen Datlow

March 15, 2019 locusmag 0

As usual, I mostly read short horror fiction, but among the novels I read I found several good ones to recommend: Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman (Del Rey) is a weird, deeply dark western about the eponymous woman, who has suffered from a condition since childhood – she periodically falls into a deep coma-like state during which she appears dead. Only a few people know, and one – her husband