Blinks: Connie Willis, Ken Liu, Ted Chiang, Madeleine L’Engle, Iain Banks, Cormac McCarthy; Old magazines, Latin American SF, Arrival

» Lit Hub: In Praise of Sci-Fi Legend Connie Willis’s Cinematic Universe, “Joel Cuthbertson Looks at Willis’s Oeuvre and Her Latest, The Road to Roswell”

» Slate, Ken Liu: The Imitation Game (about chatbots and writing fiction)

» Vanity Fair: “We Have Built a Giant Treadmill That We Can’t Get Off”: Sci-Fi Prophet Ted Chiang on How to Best Think About About AI

» Salon, Meaghan Mulholland: Grief is a distant planet: How “A Wrinkle in Time” is helping me deal with my father’s decline, subtitled “From Madeleine L’Engle to Ray Bradbury, sci-fi favorites from childhood help me make sense of my sorrowful present”

» The Guardian, Steven Poole: Where to start with: Iain Banks

» Scientific American: Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science, subtitled “Cormac McCarthy’s curiosity about science made him a great writer”

» NY Times, Brian Dillon: To Truly Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine, subtitled “Find a print issue, preferably more than 20 years old, and read it cover to cover. You’ll find the old days stranger than you remember.”

» NY Times, Emily Hart: Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon, subtitled “A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories.”

» NY Times, David French on Arrival: America Is Indispensable and Imperfect, one of a series in which a columnist picks one piece that captures the country (French does not mention the original story’s author)