Staff Picks: The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

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

Liz Bourke picks The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso: “I was a fan of Caruso’s work to start with, but with The Obsidian Tower she’s hit another level in terms of prose and tension. This is a truly excellent fantasy, and an epic beginning for a new trilogy. I can’t wait to see what she does next.”

Read Liz’s full review online or in the August 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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SF in Brazil

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Latin American SF in The New York Times Emily Hart’s piece ‘‘Science Fiction from Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon’’ was published in The New York Times on July 10, 2023, and claimed the attention of the Brazilian SF community. Hart writes out of Colombia, and deals in her piece with that country and with Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Brazil. Her starting point