Blinks: About Octavia Butler, Robert Silverberg

September 21, 2020 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Slate: Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now

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Star-crossed Heroes: Arley Sorg and Josh Pearce Discuss The Suicide Squad

September 21, 2021 locusmag 0

A motley crew of costumed characters with highly questionable morals is compelled – upon pain of death – to undertake a covert military mission in the “island nation of Corto Maltese.” What they uncover is much larger than any of them expected…. The Suicide Squad is exactly the over-the-top bloody, just-ridiculous-enough not-a-superhero movie you need. It’s pretty rare for sequels* to be better films than the originals, but James Gunn’s

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Happy New Year

December 31, 2009 locusmag 1

This year we lost our friend and Locus founder, Charles N. Brown. There were many wonderful works of science fiction and fantasy published, which will no doubt be discussed in our traditional year-in-review issue in February, but this is what rocked me the most in 2009. I hope that in 2010 everyone’s year is peaceful, happy and filled with success, and that the darker side of life doesn’t cast its