Staff Picks: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

December 27, 2019December 26, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2019 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Adrienne Martini chooses To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers, “a tight, frequently funny, character-driven novella that tells a cozy space exploration story, except what’s being explored is human brains rather than bug-eyed aliens and exotic worlds.”

You can read her review of it in the December 2019 issue of Locus.

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

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Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

Commentary Features

Year in Review, 2019 by Graham Sleight

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Over the past few years, I’ve been talking here about a couple of recurring ideas on the shape of the SF and fantasy world. For instance, the notion that these fields are increasingly a pluralism and that there’s no default way that one should expect an SF/F novel to be written; that interplay between “genre” and “mainstream” writers of the fantastic is increasing, fruitfully; and that “science fiction” and “fantasy”

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