Archive for 2018

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    Brief Thoughts: Tade Thompson’s Rosewater

    I got the same frisson of discovery reading Tade Thompson’s ROSEWATER as I did reading William Gibson’s NEUROMANCER so...

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    Gardner Dozois’ The Year’s Best Science Fiction

    Got my copy of Gardner Dozois’ final YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION collection. It’s the last book he edited for...

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    Brief Thoughts: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

    SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is one of the best superhero movies I’ve ever seen, and one of the most...

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    Brief Thoughts: Aliette de Bodard’s In The Vanishers’ Palace

    Aliette de Bodard’s novella IN THE VANISHERS’ PALACE turns the devastating aftermath of colonialism into a wave that warps...

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    Brief Thoughts: Eighth Grade (2018)

    Bo Burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE really drives home how often teen movies feel like period pieces predicated on nostalgia even...

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    Upcoming Anthology: New Suns

    I wrote a story called ‘The Shadow We Cast Through Time’, featuring exoplanetary folklore, deep space myth, and extraterrestrial...

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    Upcoming Anthology: The Outcast Hours

    When I worked night shifts on-call as a dog hotel attendant in Vancouver, people kept telling me to write...

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    Brief Thoughts: Halloween (2018)

    Went to the movies for David Gordon Green’s new HALLOWEEN to cheer myself up. After all, a cinematic manifestation...

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    Brief Thoughts: Apostle (2018)

    Gareth Evans’ APOSTLE is a stylishly unsubtle fable about the cultish brutality of ideological extremism, whether manifest in religious...

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    Brief Thoughts: First Man (2018)

    Damien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN paints Armstrong’s ascent to the Moon as an escape from grief and familial responsibility, the...

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