Around the Web: Niall Harrison on Year’s Bests; Gary Westfahl on Living in Space; Reviews of C Pam Zhang, John Scalzi, and Lavie Tidhar

September 29, 2023October 2, 2023 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Los Angeles Review of Books: Niall Harrison: The Year’s Best Is Dead, Long Live the Year’s Best: On the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists, with some attention to Locus Magazine‘s Recommended Reading lists, and the Science Fiction Awards Database

» Gary Westfahl is quoted in this Scientific American article, Why We’ll Never Live in Space

» NPR: Maureen Corrigan reviews C Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey

» New Scientist: Sally Adee reviews John Scalzi and Lavie Tidhar

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

January 8, 2024 locusmag 0

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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2019 by Tim Pratt

February 12, 2020 locusmag 0

Most years I read a fair bit of science fiction and fantasy, but the majority of my pleasure reading tends to be mystery and crime (I don’t write in those genres, so I can enjoy them without that otherwise inevitable layer of analysis). This year, though, I’m on an award jury covering speculative fiction, and as a result, I’ve read more widely and deeply in my home field than I