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Versions of You by Stephen R. Case – FREE STORY
I cry when you come to the door. It has been almost three weeks since you were hit walking home. And now, here you are, in t-shirt and khaki slacks, with the hesitant half-grin you wear […]

For the Betterment of All by C.B. Droege – FREE STORY
The mathematician split his time evenly among observation, calculation, and sleep. He never did conform to the can’s twenty-four-hour schedule. He had been accustomed to a thirty-hour day, and apparently saw no social or functional […]

May She Live Forever by Peter J. Carter – FREE STORY
The next time I saw her was two years after she died. My wife was thirty-two years old when cancer took her. She was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, an insidious tendrillar growth that grows in your brain, […]

The Zombie Hunter by Sue Pawlowski – FREE STORY
I wasn’t always a fearless zombie hunter. I missed the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. I’d quit my job after a series of sexual harassment episodes perpetrated by my perverted boss that the HR department […]

News

AMAZING NEWS: 10/1/23
Wow! Fraught societal issues, lawsuits, fascism, antisemitism and an announcement of perhaps the greatest existential threat ever to face humanity throughout the course of its 100,000 year evolutionary history. That’s right. They have gone and done it, announcing a second (!) remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still!

Time Machine: October 1, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: October 1, 2023 The Get Lost Saga Continues… Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya by Steven Savanna Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect by Steven […]

Time Machine: September 24, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: September 24, 2023 AMAZING NEWS: 9/24/23 The Big Idea: Matthew Sangster Survey Suspended New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for SEPT 20 Novedades de Septiembre 1 Book Review: The Case Against […]
OpEd

On Amazing Stories “Five Laws” AI Policy
Some background on our AI policy.

CONTRARY BRIN: Prepper-Lords intend to leave us in the lurch… then dominate the wasteland aftermath. Worse – they want it!
In fact, far greater fractions of today’s world oligarchy are old money inheritance brats, or hedge parasites, or casino mafiosi, petro-princes and the like – elites who are all considerably more discreet and secretive than […]

Book Excerpt: Owning the Unknown (A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God) by Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson has been writing science fiction since the publication of his first novel, A Hidden Place, in 1986. His novels include Darwinia, Blind Lake, and Spin, which received numerous awards including the Hugo Award, the Grand Prix […]

“Sci Fi Novels Delivered at Warp Speed!”
If a book can be delivered at Warp Speed, you won’t be reading it any time soon – you might not even know what “any time” is anymore!

New Story Contracts
Read every contract you get.
Science Fiction

The News Stand Eighty Years Ago This Month (October 2023)
What might have been on the stands in October, 1943.

The News Stand Ninety Years Ago Today (October 2023)
The SF/F/H magazines on the stands, ninety years ago this month

The Devil’s Footlocker by David Hankins – FREE STORY
Phil could sell anything to anyone. New Milwaukee, like most habitats orbiting Earth, was a moldering dump that smelled like rancid grease wrapped in locker room funk, but that was precisely why Phil had come. […]

AMAZING NEWS: 10/1/23
Wow! Fraught societal issues, lawsuits, fascism, antisemitism and an announcement of perhaps the greatest existential threat ever to face humanity throughout the course of its 100,000 year evolutionary history. That’s right. They have gone and done it, announcing a second (!) remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still!

Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya by Steven Savanna
Excerpt from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya Excerpt 1: Lucas left Ruby’s slot and made a hasty path back to his own slot. He had only just arrived and was seated watching a news […]

Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect by Steven Savanna
Excerpt from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect Excerpt 1: He stood and grabbed the woman, who also stood and now began to struggle with him. But his action was unexpected when he grabbed […]

Today’s Favorite Magazine From the V1N1 Collection – with a twist: Black Gate
A more recent addition to the collection.

Book Review: Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE (07/07/2020) ISBN: 9780756416935 Pages: 368 Author: Nnedi Okorafor Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor includes a new Binti story in addition to the three original novellas. Okorafor has […]
Fantasy

Book Excerpt: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
Melinda Taub is an Emmy- and Writers’ Guild Award-winning writer. The former head writer and executive producer of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, she is the author of Still Star-Crossed, a young adult novel which was adapted […]

REVIEW: THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER
The Bram Stoker novel about a bloodsucker has a short passage about how he got to England. This movie takes that portion of the well-known book and expands it. Steve thinks you’ll like it (a lot).

The Big Idea: Matthew Sangster
Want to dig into the tropes and traditions of the fantasy genre? Matthew Sangster has come over from the University of Glasgow to give us An Introduction to Fantasy, and to retrace the steps that […]

Novedades de Septiembre 1
LIBROS En México, durante la Feria Universitaria del Libro 2023 de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Federico Schafer dió la conferencia « Colección Aztlanópolis. Ciencia Ficción Mexica(na)». El evento se llevó a cabo el viernes 1 […]

Review: The Dark Gift by Trevor Jones
Novels set in roleplaying worlds are a tricky thing. On the one hand, you want to be true to the game world, but sometimes the game mechanics get in the way when applied to a […]
Science

The Mysterious Atmosphere of this Extraterrestrial World Captivates Astronomers
Is humanity the sole inhabitant of the cosmos? This age-old question has persisted throughout our history. In the realm of modern astronomy, the inquiry delves into the search for extraterrestrial life. Are we, as a […]

Book Review: The Case Against Reality by Donald D. Hoffman
Publisher : Penguin (August 20, 2020) Language : English Pages : 208 ISBN-10 : 0141983418 ISBN-13 : 978-0141983417 The Case Against Reality: How evolution hid the […]

Demon quasiparticle is detected 67 years after it was first proposed
For nearly seven decades, a plasmon known as Pines’ demon has remained a purely hypothetical feature of solid-state systems. Massless, neutral and unable to interact with light, this unusual quasiparticle is reckoned to play a […]

Asteroid Orbits Shrink After Being Hit By NASA’s DART
NASA’s endeavor to alter the trajectory of an asteroid has yielded unexpected results. Just shy of a year ago, NASA intentionally directed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft (DART) towards Dimorphos, an asteroid located approximately […]

“Sci Fi Novels Delivered at Warp Speed!”
If a book can be delivered at Warp Speed, you won’t be reading it any time soon – you might not even know what “any time” is anymore!

Uraniborg: An Observatory Without a Telescope
Before the invention of the telescope, astronomers relied on a variety of tools and techniques to observe and study the celestial objects and phenomena. The simplest and the most ancient method was unaided observation with […]

Space Junk Is Colliding With Itself, Creating More Space Junk
The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that a space debris removal mission’s target, a piece of debris called VESPA, was hit by a small unidentified object. This collision resulted in the release of new […]

CONTRARY BRIN: More space updates… And yeah, the ongoing UFO silliness
I am a co-author of this paper, “Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats,” announcing “Project Sundiver”… offering a wide suite of potential fast interplanetary missions that could accelerate far faster than today’s rockets can manage, by swooping […]