Staff Picks: The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

December 4, 2019December 11, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2019 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks! Russell Letson picks for a top 2019 title The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie, a “mashup of Hamlet and sword-and-sorcery adventure… a thoughtful reimagining of a genre.”

You can read Russell’s and Adrienne Martini’s reviews of it online here, or in the February 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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Let us go then, you and I: an introduction to speculative poetry

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Mike Allen’s first short story collection, The Button Bin and Other Horrors, is scheduled for an early fall release from Apex Publications. He’s been a finalist for the Nebula Award for short fiction and won the Rhysling Award for poetry three times. He’s written two novels, both of which are house-hunting. He’s also editor of the poetry journal Mythic Delirium (new issue here) and the acclaimed anthology series Clockwork Phoenix.