Staff Picks: Longer by Michael Blumlein

December 8, 2019December 11, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2019 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks! Editor-in-Chief Liza Trombi picks Longer by Michael Blumlein as a top title of the year: “he folds idea upon idea and builds distinct characters who are in constant and subtle movement.”

You can read Adrienne Martini’s review online and in the June 2019 issue of Locus.

Exit, Pursued by a Kaiju: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Godzilla Minus One

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Josh: First off, holy shit. Arley: I agree. This movie was GREAT. They started with unusual characters. You don’t see a lot of movies where the star is a disgraced suicide pilot, for example. Grounding the story with in interesting, relatable characters makes it so that you can actually capitalize on the horror aspects of Godzilla. Viewers can get engaged with the horror that is Godzilla, rather than just being

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Adaptation

February 26, 2009 locusmag 2

Yesterday evening, I got to interview Nick Lowe as part of the BSFA‘s regular monthly meeting series. Though the interview was recorded, and I guess may be transcribed for Vector, some of what we talked about might be worth kicking around here. Nick Lowe is known, especially in the UK, for his film column Mutant Popcorn in Interzone, which he’s been writing for close on 25 years. Sadly, none of