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A Tollbooth On Mars by Ray Daley – FREE STORY
Mars. The red planet. Imagine dust, rocks, sand, and wind. You’d be ninety-eight percent right. ‘Only ninety-eight percent?’ I hear you all asking. If you’re wondering where you lost that two percent, don’t […]
Hard Choices, by Michael Carabott – FREE STORY
Captain Takktun Kantari slid the bubble helmet over his head and locked it into place with a reassuring click before triple-checking the joint seals on each of his suit’s four legs and three arms. Several […]
I Know What the Moon Looks Like by Jenn Hopkins – FREE STORY
Journal Entry for Sakura Jovanović: Entry for Day 35, Year 2253, Cilix Station It’s cold here. Papa needs a suit, but I don’t need one, though Mama still makes me wear it. We live at […]
Split Decision by C. J. Peterson – FREE STORY
This week’s free science fiction story is by C.J. Peterson and introduces new challenges in diplomacy! Please enjoy the story as read by the author in audio or read the story below. In the viewport, […]
We Hope You’ve Enjoyed the Journey by Heather Santo – FREE STORY
The following story is the FIRST in a series of weekly free science fiction from Amazing Stories. We’ve embarked on this new venture and Heather Santo has provided us a memorable story. Each story is […]
News
FANAC: The Fan History Project Offers Exciting Meeting Lineup
Get your FANAC on with these upcoming and archival editions of the Fan History Project’s videos!
AMAZING NEWS: 2/5/2023
Star Wars, 2001, Orwell, Huxley, Scalzi, Langford, Madle, Shvartsman, Babylon 5, Brin – you know what to do.
Time Machine: February 5, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 5, 2023 Afua Richardson Helps Us Celebrate Black History Month The Big Idea: S.B. Divya This Week in Space: Drag Sails, Cosmic Rays, and ‘Space Cushions’ Futuropolis – FULL (short) […]
OpEd
The Facts in the Matter of Hugo Gernsback and Stanley G. Weinbaum
Author: Eric Leif Davin So let us set the matter straight, once again. Recently I purchased and read The Threshold of Forever, a 2017 collection of essays and reviews by well-known fiction writer, critic, and […]
Norman Spinrad At Large And Commons – An SF Manifesto
Scientifiction, Science Fiction, Sci-F, Speculative Fiction. SF. Do those two letters really mean the same thing now? Did they ever? According to the SFWA, which began as the Science Fiction Writers of America, and then […]
Top SFF Books January 2023
As SciFI Now welcomes in the new year, they figured what better time than now to pull together a list of some of the best SFF books to read this January. Source: Top SFF Books […]
What the fediverse (does/n’t) solve
Today’s links What the fediverse (does/n’t) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017 Colophon: Recent […]
Magic Systems Made Stronger with Science
This article on science and magic systems is part of the Science in Sci-fi, Fact in Fantasy blog series. Each week, we tackle one of the scientific or technological concepts pervasive in sci-fi (space travel, genetic engineering, artificial […]
Science Fiction
A Tollbooth On Mars by Ray Daley – FREE STORY
Mars. The red planet. Imagine dust, rocks, sand, and wind. You’d be ninety-eight percent right. ‘Only ninety-eight percent?’ I hear you all asking. If you’re wondering where you lost that two percent, don’t […]
AMAZING NEWS: 2/5/2023
Star Wars, 2001, Orwell, Huxley, Scalzi, Langford, Madle, Shvartsman, Babylon 5, Brin – you know what to do.
The Big Idea: S.B. Divya
Today — finally! — we tackle the actual meaning of life! No one has ever done this before in the history of the world! Or, perhaps, no one has done it quite like S.B. Divya […]
Futuropolis – FULL (short) MOVIE
A mixed-media animated Sci-Fi parody made by Steve Segal and Phil Trumbo, back in the pre-computer days. It was made in Richmond Va, with the help of lots of volunteering friends. I was one of […]
Book Excerpt: A DIAMOND DREAM by Eli K.P. William
A DIAMOND DREAM FINAL BOOK OF THE JUBILEE CYCLE ELI K. P. WILLIAM 1 The Tokyo Canal All was fire, a great conflagration roaring from the charcoal of a starless cosmos. Billowing and […]
Jack Dann to Deliver Youtube Talk on Writing
Author and anthologist Jack Dann will be discussing writing on the Tuscon Hard-Science SF Channel this coming Saturday
David Brin: Two Chapters Teaser of The Ancient Ones SF Comedy Free to Read
We never expected that inventing Star-Drive would lead to this! We were first! Humans invented star drive, bringing light and movement to the galaxy, forging a grand alliance with all races. (Well, most of them.) It seemed the galaxy was ours to lead and to share!
10 Science Fiction Romance Novels with Four Armed Heroes
Note: This post first appeared in the Roswell Daily Record. One interesting subtrope in scifi romance is the four armed alien hero. I have to say I prefer the more standard set of two arms […]
Fantasy
One Frame at a Time
I have been trying to write this article since the year began. With the news released today that Guillermo del Toro’s stop motion animated masterpiece Pinocchio is nominated for best animated film, I felt like […]
Novedades de Enero 2
LIBROS La Corporación Eugenio Espejo de Ecuador ha publicado el libro último del gran Fernando Naranjo Espinoza, titulado “Los custodios de la piedra”. Este libro cuenta con un prólogo de nuestro blogger Iván Rodrigo Mendizábal […]
MOVIE REVIEW: BLACK ADAM
Dwayne (“The Rock” at one time) Johnson has long wanted to play Black Adam in a movie. Unfortunately, he is not well served by the move he got. Read Steve’s opinion on this mess of a wanna-be blockbuster.
BOOK EXCERPT: The Eye of Argon and the Further Adventures of Grignr the Barbarian
We Can All Be Grignr; or: How to Appreciate Very Bad Writing by Michael A. Ventrella So it’s 1970. If you’re a fan of high fantasy, you’ve read The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. […]
Review: Mr Breakfast by Jonathon Carroll
Melville House Publishing, HB, £20.00 Reviewed by Rym Kechacha Describing a book as a philosophical novel of ideas might induce dread in some. You might be thinking about info dumps, quotations from obscure German thinkers, […]
Science
This Week in Space: Drag Sails, Cosmic Rays, and ‘Space Cushions’
Hello, readers, and welcome to your Friday morning digest of space news from this week. If you’re looking for unalloyed good news, you’ve come to the right place. This week we’ve got astronauts of […]
CONTRARY BRIN: Gaining perspective: imaging Earth – and deep space
Modeling this planet. Having cut my teeth long ago on the Whole Earth Catalogue, and later having written a novel called Earth, I’m a bit of a sucker for macro planet modeling projects. Here’s one […]
2 asteroids the size of 100 pugs to pass Earth Tuesday – NASA
Two asteroids approximately the size of 100 adult pugs are set to barrel towards Earth this Tuesday, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker. The asteroids in question have been designated 2019 BO2 and 2019 BZ4, according […]
US Certifies First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
The design is courtesy of Oregon-based NuScale Power, which has been working to certify a small modular reactor (SMR) design since 2007. At the NuScale’s core are up to 12 power modules, or natural circulation […]
Researchers Find 17-Pound Meteorite During Antarctica Expedition
The team—which consists of geochemists Maria Schönbächler, Vinciane Debaille, and Ryoga Maeda as well as cosmochemist Maria Valdes—began their Antarctic expedition in December. When they returned in mid-January, it was with five meteorites, including one […]
New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days
We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed missions […]
Scientists Have Successfully Reversed Aging in Mice
We’ve recently made some major strides toward understanding and managing aging on a larger scale. In 2022 alone, scientists found ways to predict a person’s lifespan, use fecal microbiota to “restore” youth in rodents, and make human […]
Last year marked the end of an era in spaceflight—here’s what we’re watching next
This past year was a momentous one in spaceflight, bringing to a close many of the most significant storylines that have dominated this industry in the last 10 to 15 years. Consider the state of […]
