Movie Review: "Blade Runner 2049" (‘As clear as dreaming’)
I can’t remember ever being as disturbed and enthralled at one time by any movie as by “Blade Runner 2049.” That makes it fine art in my eyes. The movie is disturbing because it so explicitly poses questions about personhood, objectification and empathy. I gasped a few times and flinched several more times, and so […]
337. Ann Leckie (a.k.a. Singularitrix) — Provenance (An Interview)
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode337InterviewWithAnnLeckie/Sandf–Episode337–InterviewWithAnnLeckie.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSpace Opera, heritage, and alien ambassadors, oh my! Shaun is joined by guest host Feliza Casano of Girlsincapes.com to interview Ann Leckie about the stand-alone novel in her […]
#PollMondays: How much would you pay for a remastered *original* Star Wars trilogy?
Fans have been asking for re-releases of the original theatrical versions of the Star Wars trilogy since the invention of the DVD. Aside from a couple of obscure, lower quality releases, we’ve yet to have our dreams fulfilled. Some of us would be willing to pay good money for these original films. Enter this week’s poll. You […]
Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties (reviewed by Penny Reeve)
Carmen Maria Machado’s writing has — very rightly so — been receiving a lot of attention recently. Readers have been champing at the bit for more of Machado’s work since she set the literary world alight in 2014 with the incredible short “The Husband Stitch” and now we’re rewarded with a collection of her short stories with Her […]
Top 10 Posts and Episodes for September 2017
The glorious hellhole that was September is behind us. It wasn’t all bad, of course. We released some podcasts and some blog posts, and we’re pretty sure you liked at least some of them (:P). Here are the most popular posts and episodes from September 2017:
Book Review: The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl
Eric Scott Fischl grabbed my attention in a big way recently with his harrowing debut novel Doctor Potter’s Medicine Show, and only tightened his grip on it with this follow-up. But once again, caveat lector. Just as its predecessor held considerable peril for sympathetic vomiters and those triggered by sexual violence, The Trials of Solomon […]
