SF in the real world
LeGuin, Miéville, Hand, Moorcock & Hopkinson discuss real-life SF cities. Gaiman says every place is fantastical if you look at it right.
LeGuin, Miéville, Hand, Moorcock & Hopkinson discuss real-life SF cities. Gaiman says every place is fantastical if you look at it right.
Good news: massive proposed budget cuts for all three area library systems have been taken off the table, at least for the moment. A friend writes: Expect to see some smiling librarians today. You will notice a gleeful glint in our cateye glasses, and some cardigans may be thrown open in celebration. Due to a $46.5 million budget restoration, there . . .
At Guernica, Katherine Dunn talks about One Ring Circus, her new collection of musings on boxing. (Please excuse Twitter dup.)
Jeffrey Eugenides explains that the deterioration of Detroit’s auto industry inspired The Virgin Suicides. (Via Michael Schaub, who’s back at Bookslut.)
In a starred review, PW praises (my friend) Victor LaValle’s Big Machine, a “high-stakes mashup of thrilling paranormal and … Ellison’s Invisible Man.”