Staff Picks: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

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

Paul Di Filippo recommends The Vanished Birds: “Simon Jimenez’s touching, bold, surprising, gorgeous debut novel—a certain manner of postmodern space opera, despite the fantasy-resonant title—is not only the best debut novel I’ve read in ages, but simply one of the best SF novels in recent memory.”

Check out Paul’s full review online and Gary K. Wolfe’s review online or in the April 2020 issue of Locus.

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

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Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

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Amish: Humility of a Witness

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Amish Tripathi was born October 18, 1974 in Mumbai, India. He grew up in the eastern part of the country and went to boarding school in Tamil Nadu, in Southern India, before returning to Mumbai for high school and college. He got his MBA at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and worked in finance for 15 years. Amish writes in English, and began self-publishing his Shiva trilogy in

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