Staff Picks: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

December 23, 2020December 21, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Colleen Mondor chooses The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune: “I just cannot bear a bleak dystopian future right now. I know that is unreasonable and even unfair to a lot of great authors, but it is where my head is at. I need something that gives me hope that humanity will rise to this latest challenge. I wasn’t looking for saccharine sweet or even happily ever after but just something, anything, that was not bleak. That’s when the fates handed me the novel on the top of my TBR pile: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.”

Read Colleen’s review online or in the June 2020 issue of Locus.

Exit, Pursued by a Kaiju: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Godzilla Minus One

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Josh: First off, holy shit. Arley: I agree. This movie was GREAT. They started with unusual characters. You don’t see a lot of movies where the star is a disgraced suicide pilot, for example. Grounding the story with in interesting, relatable characters makes it so that you can actually capitalize on the horror aspects of Godzilla. Viewers can get engaged with the horror that is Godzilla, rather than just being

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The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

March 14, 2011 admin 2

This week many of us at Locus will be off in Florida at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, affectionately known as ICFA. This is an academic conference that also attracts a number of writers and editors. It runs from March 16 to March 20, and this year features Guests of Honor Connie Willis, Terry Bisson, and Andrea Hairston. In honor of ICFA, which also, in a