AMAZING NEWS: 1/7/24
Brin, Supreme Court, Journalists, AI, Navajo Nation, Mars, Tom Easton, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, CORFLU, PKD, Rolling Stone, you know, the usual!
Brin, Supreme Court, Journalists, AI, Navajo Nation, Mars, Tom Easton, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, CORFLU, PKD, Rolling Stone, you know, the usual!
Después de que la madre de todas las gripes y la batería de mi computadora se confabularan para que no escribiera durante más de un mes, cumplo con entregar un artículo sobre noviembre. Pronto viene […]
For her novel After World, author Debbie Urbanski thought about humanity’s place in the world as we understand it… and then went beyond. What does that mean and where does our species ultimately fit in? […]
In this, or any, age where truth is at a premium, and truth is a foreign concept, we all need someone like this lady to cut through the political nonsense, sexual innuendo, secrets, bravado and […]
Ellen Datlow, Adam Gaffen, David Agranoff, Daniel Salvo, SMOF News, OpenAI, Scientology, Black Holes, Robert Heinlein, Voyager, Al Sirois and the South Florida Science Fiction Society – all in our year’s end news roundup!
La revista de análisis cultural: Kamchatka ha publicado un monográfico coordinado por la investigadora Teresa López-Pellisa. La revista, fiel a su proyección para apoyar intentos que exploren las zonas críticas y sensibles del mundo social […]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Published Date: 2006 Author: Ray Bradbury Read By: Robert Fass ISBN: 0-7927-4519-1 Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury is the sequel, or maybe just the completion, […]
It may surprise you to learn that Science Fiction Fandom was not born into an harmonious world. It was in fact contentious almost from the very beginning. Several factions were in play early on, with […]
On an Earth crippled by climate change and the decimations of its rain forests, some remember the only tribal traditions they know, in an effort to restore the Earth to what it was. Will saving […]
Lots of year-end space news; Hall of Fame podcast; Linda Bushyager; Charlie Stross; Cory Doctorow; David Brin; Vincent Di Fate and…Uranus.
Two magazines edited and largely populated by members of The Futurians
A look at the UK’s 1950 companion to New Worlds – Science Fantasy
“Bodies” is a relatively new science fiction limited series on Netflix. It follows 4 different detectives who come across the exact same dead naked body in an alley in London in 1890, 1941, 2023 […]
Debbie Urbanski’s ‘After World’ (permalink) Debbie Urbanski’s debut novel After World is an unflinching and relentlessly bleak tale of humanity’s mass extinction, shot through with pathos and veined with seams of tragic tenderness and care: […]
This is one of my favorites. And it may be a favorite because I was able to pick up the entire run of the digest editions in one go, for a very reasonable price…either at […]
Since its debut as the world’s first magazine devoted exclusively to the Science Fiction genre in 1926 (also, first genre definition in the editorial and first home for Fandom in the letters column), Amazing Stories […]
Do you really know the one you love? Are they the person they say they are? Are they hiding behind another identity, one that may have been hidden from everyone, including them? Who know who […]
A cornucopia of SF magazine first issues
From 1931: Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories
Comet Stories of Super Time and Space featured in today’s V1N1 collection write up.
I recently wrote an article about a fan made update to the classic wargame Battletech, which rekindled my interest in the game. It also rekindled my interest in the lore, and made me want to […]
Kirkus Review Reviews ESPionage: Regime Change
“Water,” Kine said. “Please… I need water.” It felt like his insides were on fire. People were moving around him. He could hear them but was too weak to open his eyes, and just waited […]
So many stories tell us that once we go out into the cosmos, there will be space for everyone. There will be a second chance for those who have done wrong. Too many assumptions, […]
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. A God in Hiding – by Matthew Hughes Published in 2023. Premise: A quest for a sacred object risks restoring a god to full power. […]
Hanuka aboard the ISS; Barnes’ Star Wars novel cover reveal; Fuzzy Pink passes; Hubble is offline; more. Happy Hanukah!
I have been spending time in the stacks of my local library and my book shelves revisiting some of the beloved books from my youth. With so many new tales being released every day, it […]
Prologue The moons of Alpha 49C shone brightly through the hatch. All seven of them were in slightly different phases. Jenn thought this was perhaps the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. The past […]
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