Blinks: NYT, Guardian reviews; Cory Doctorow; Andrew Liptak

October 17, 2020 LocEditor 0 Comments

» NY Times: Amal El-Mohtar reviews C.L. Polk, V.E. Schwab, Susanna Clarke

» Slate: Cory Doctorow: The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories: I’m changing how I write fiction—for the benefit of the real world.

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Andrzei Sapkowski, Tony Ballantyne, Peter F. Hamilton, Kate Elliott, Graham Masterton

» Polygon: Andrew Liptak selects 15 recent sci-fi books that forever shaped the genre and other articles in its Imagining the Next Future section

Look! Up In the Sky!: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg discuss Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

November 29, 2022 locusmag 0

Wakanda Forever follows the events of the original Black Panther as well as some of the other Marvel titles, but importantly, it also follows the real-life event of Chadwick Boseman’s death – the actor who played Black Panther/T’Challa. The opening of the film is a tribute to Boseman, as well as the way he embodied the title character. Making effective use of silence, sound, imagery, and the raw emotions of

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Spotlight on: Charlie Jane Anders, Author, Editor, Blogger, Emcee

August 25, 2010 admin 2

Charlie Jane Anders is the managing editor at science fiction blog io9.com. Since 2001, she’s organized and hosted Writers With Drinks, a spoken word “variety show” that features science fiction alongside literary fiction, poetry, comedy and other genres. She won the Emperor Norton Award for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason” in 2009. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the