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

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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First Kickstarter Milestone

April 5, 2012 admin 0

The Locus Kickstarter campaign has met its first milestone, it will be funded! They met their $9500 goal. But that’s no reason to stop the momentum! There are a lot of things that can be done with any extra money. Consider: Should we exceed our funding goals, there are several projects waiting in the wings: digitizing and storing Locus’s immense and historic collection of audio author interviews, currently only