Blinks: William Gibson; Guardian reviews

January 10, 2020 LocEditor 0 Comments

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RoboMom: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss Jung_E

March 6, 2023 locusmag 0

Jung_E frontloads a pile of fairly unnecessary background worldbuilding, but the important bits are that they’ve developed the means to put human brains into robots, and that two major factions have been at war for 80 years. When Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-Joo), one of the best, most inspiring fighters gets killed in action, of course they build a robot that looks exactly like her: Jung_E; and of course they put

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Dark Fiction in 2017 by Ellen Datlow

March 24, 2018 locusmag 0

2017 has been a good year for dark fiction. Here’s a mere taste of the good stuff: Some novels I enjoyed: Kit Reed’s Mormama is a marvelous southern gothic about a cursed ancestral home with three elderly sisters living within. When a divorced relative and her young son move in and an accident victim with no memory hides out in the basement, the haunts become active, whispering ugly secrets. Alas,