CLUBHOUSE: Review: Cycling to Asylum, a novel by Su J. Sokol
In a digital age, your past can and will come back to haunt you.
In a digital age, your past can and will come back to haunt you.
Dr. Caligari – he of cabinet fame – has a plan to profit from World War I in James Morrow’s new novel.
There’s all kinds of new comic horrors hitting the stands these days. Here’s an introduction to just a few.
American Horror Story is an odd show. I missed it’s first run but got hooking on the anthology-format and various timelines. Being British, I often find it quite hard to conceive of America as having had […]
Once again, we have the sad duty of publishing Steven H Silver’s annual In Memoriam post.
Well it’s been quite a while since I wrote one of these, and this being near the end of 2023, it seems to be a good time to let it be known that I’m still […]
An unofficial and unauthorized overview of The X-Files (Parts 1 2 3 4) Cautionary Note If you’re looking for a treatise about the 2016-2018 reboot of The X-Files, which trashed both the human drama and […]
To answer my own headline, yes, there is too much to read, at least if you want to stay knowledgeably informed on the field. But there is a way to relatively quickly fill in the […]
The stories in this book are set in the coming days of the Golden Centuries of Astronomy, so why does it begin with THE TRANSFORMATION CRISIS, written as a speech I wrote for a futurology […]
In Memoriam for 2021. Sadly, the list is far longer than it ought to be.
Oddly, the sex and killing are incidental. In the end, it’s about the main character becoming human despite having been shaped as a weapon
In this, his 300th column for Amazing Stories® online, Steve checks out a collection of good stories by author Lisa Mason, who continues to impress him.
A contest to search for a “symbol for scientifiction”
In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future.
An advanced look at Looking Glass, a collection of novellas by Christina Henry
IT, Part II is out. Steve looks back at the 1990 TV-series version. Which one does he like? The oldie or the new one? Find out here!
Futuristic Canada is a very Canadian anthology. How much so may depend on whether you are Canadian, American, British or even Australian….
A tri-annual speculative fiction magazine of works by “queer POC / Indigenous / Aboriginal creators”, and a call for a crusade against an entrenched foe.
…strong echoes of the early Philip K. Dick where things are not what they seem and you have every right to be paranoid…
Clair Winger Harris, HG Wells, Gernsback, and an appeal to design a symbol for “Scientifiction”
Want a quick history lesson in the SF genre? Here’s how to get one without having to wade through too much of that old, dated, socially jarring stuff without too much trouble.
An in depth look at two publications – Neo-Opsis magazine and A Body of Work anthology – using the O.B.I.R. method. (Not to be confused with the Outer Limits method O.B.I.T.. Not quite that intrusive.)
Doris Sutherland continues her review of Amazing Stories’ early history. including letter column praise for H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space.
Journey back to November 1927, when Hugo Gernsback suggests that some science fiction concepts may become obsolete.
In her debut column, Linnea takes a look at four fantasy series.
Winners will be highlighted when the results are in. Best Novel Beyond This Horizon, by Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) (Astounding Science-Fiction, April & May 1942) Darkness and the Light, by Olaf Stapledon (Methuen / […]
extraterrestrial diseases, chemically-created spectres, man-eating plants, electric deathtraps and people being turned to stone…and it’s ONLY 1927….
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