Blinks: Guardian, NYT reviews; Scalzi & Doctorow

April 13, 2019 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Chris Beckett, Jane Rawson, MT Hill, NJ Crosskey, Arkady Martine

» NY Times Book Review: Louisa Hall reviews Nell Freudenberger’s Lost and Wanted

» LA Times: John Scalzi interviews Cory Doctorow about Radicalized

The Name’s Protagonist… Anonymous Protagonist: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Tenet

December 1, 2020 locusmag 0

After a high-stakes operation at an opera house in Ukraine, a CIA agent (John David Washington) is recruited into a mysterious organization, given the codeword “Tenet” as a key to establishing contact with other members. Their objective is to stop an international criminal named Sator (Kenneth Branagh) who uses “time inversion”: a technology which reverses the effects of entropy and essentially causes objects to move backwards in time. The organization

Commentary Features

African SFF 2018 by Geoff Ryman

March 11, 2019 locusmag 1

Calendar year 2018 was dominated by the overwhelming success of the movie Black Panther, which drew a whole new audience to cinemas in cities like Nairobi and Lagos. It inspired a sugar-rush of love, a hastily retitled Nollywood rip off, and a small mini-backlash from those who rewrote Wakanda’s history to make it more credibly African. Elsewhere in film, the Nigerian short Hello Rain, adapted by CJ Obasi from a