Around the Web: WaPo’s Best SF/F of 2023; Essay by Kelly Barnhill; Profile of Christopher Paolini; Reviews by Michael Dirda and of Naomi Alderman

November 27, 2023 LocEditor 0 Comments

» Washington Post, 14 Nov, Charlie Jane Anders: The 10 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2023 by Kitasei, Moreno-Garcia, Awad, Link, Huang, Googins, Talabi, Kaner, Parker-Chan, and Blackgoose

» NY Times, 22 Nov 2023: Essay by Kelly Barnhill since experiencing a traumatic brain injury in 2021

» Washington Post, Sophie Nguyen, 24 Nov 2023: Christopher Paolini wrote ‘Eragon’ as a teen. Now 40, he’s still at it.

» Washington Post, 22 Nov 2023: Michael Dirda reviews Kij Johnson, Gene Wolfe, and Terry Pratchett

» NY Times, 7 Nov 2023: Ian Wang reviews Naomi Alderman’s The Future

» The Guardian, 27 Nov 2023: Stephanie Merritt reviews Naomi Alderman

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

Roundtable

Roundtable on Spoilers

November 27, 2012 admin 4

This conversation is a spin-off from the earlier discussion of Reviewing. As always, this discussion is broken up into multiple pages for ease of reading. If you’d like to read it all on a single page, select ‘View All’ from the drop down menu above. If you don’t see the drop down menu, please click here. John Clute Proposal. Try to think of a single review which lacks spoilers that