Welcome back! That time has come again, when I look back at the year we’ve just finished. I hope you missed me; I took all of December off to do some fiction writing. I did some; I didn’t finish enough, however. I have to work on that this year! It appears that in 2017 I published 37 columns in the virtual pages of Amazing Stories Online. I’m hoping to better that this year, as well as to publish more fiction.
I got a couple of things out (published) last year, and I’m hoping to better that as well. (By the way, Figure 1 was stolen from a Scottish-Russian party ad. I changed the date to the 9th, which is my birthday… next week! But I’m not having a party. I’m mumbly-ump years old this year!) On to the column listing!
Column 170: January 6, 2017—WELCOME TO 2017, and 2016’s LIST OF COLUMNS Self-explanatory, really. Last year’s list.
Column 171: January 13, 2017—Down Under Video Reviews: “Red Billabong” and “Glitch” An Australian TV series & an Aussie movie reviewed.
Column 172: January 20, 2017—A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE REVIEWS (A Review) Also self-explanatory. The new Netflix series.
Column 173: January 27, 2017—MOVIE REVIEWS: THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE and THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS Two movie reviews; one very good, one poor (the movies, not the reviews!).
Column 174: February 3, 2017—REVIEWS: RIVERDALE and FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION (Jan-Feb 2017) The title says it all.
Column 175: February 17, 2017—RETRO DAYS: ROBERT A. HEINLEIN and SPIDER ROBINSON In which I talk about Spider & R.A.H.
Column 176: February 24, 2017—TIME ENOUGH FOR HEINLEIN—RAH, S/F, AND SEX! A look at Heinlein’s use of nudity & sex in SF.
Column 177: March 3, 2017—RETRO: OF MOSCON AND HEINLEIN AND VERNA In which I talk about a convention in Moscow, Idaho, these many years ago!
Column 178: March 10, 2017—RETRO REVIEW: ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S THE DOOR INTO SUMMER I review a favourite book of Heinlein’s.
Column 179: March 17, 2017—A “SHORT” CAPSULE REVIEW AND SOME CAPSULE REVIEWS A capsule review of the Short movie and others.
Column 180: March 24, 2017—MY FANNISH HISTORY REDUX—WORLDCONS and NAMETAGS etc.
Column 181: March 31, 2017—REVIEW: HIDDEN FIGURES (A FEEL-GOOD MOVIE!) A review of one of the best movies of the year!
Column 182: April 7, 2017—NEW REVIEW, OLDER MOVIE: TIME LAPSE (2014) A new review of an older movie. I like retro reviewing!
Column 183: April 21, 2017—A FAREWELL; MAR-APR F&SF; AND NORWESCON 40! Vicki Mitchell obituary, Norwescon, and F&SF!
Column 184: May 5, 2017—TWO FAVOURABLE REVIEWS AND A BLURB Book reviews: Alternative Truths, and Raffalon plus a movie: Void—good stuff!
Column 185: May 12, 2017—À LA RECHERCHE DES LIVRES PERDU: RETRO BOOK REVIEWS Retro reviews of “Doc” Smith and “Mark Phillips.”
Column 186: May 26, 2017— REVIEWS: THE IMPOSSIBLES (retro) and 9 TALES OF RAFFALON (new!) A follow-up Mark Phillips book and a new Matthew Hughes book reviewed!
Column 187: June 2, 2017—RAMBLIN’ ROWS (OF TEXT) and ROD SERLING’S NIGHT GALLERY Talkin’ ‘bout Rod Serling and writing.
Column 188: June 9, 2017—REVIEW: ALIEN COVENANT—AN ALIEN TOO FAR? As a big fan of the Alien franchise, I didn’t like this movie much.
Column 189: June 16, 2017—REVIEW: F&SF FOR MAY/JUNE 2017—AND ANOTHER FAREWELL! Goodbye to John Dalmas and another F&SF review!
Column 190: July 7, 2017—KILLER RABBIT… er, REVIEW: “THE MIST” TV SHOW Loved the story, but hated the TV show.
Column 191: July 14, 2017— MAGAZINE REVIEW: F&SF JULY-AUGUST 2017 (and AURORA AWARDS) An F&SF review plus Canadian awards!
Column 192: July 21, 2017— NEW BOOK & MOVIE REVIEWS: “THE CITYBORN” and “THE MUMMY” New book and movie reviews.
Column 193: July 28, 2017—VIEWS & REVIEWS: TV, BOOK and MOVIE (wish I had some news too!) Alternative Truths and Despicable Me 3.
Column 194: August 4, 2017—FREE SF/F, E-ZINES, AND OTHER STUFF No reviews, just free SF/F and other good stuff!
Column 195: August 18, 2017—DO YOU KNOW MURRAY LEINSTER? A look at “golden oldie” Will F. Jenkins.
Column 196: August 25, 2017—CANADIAN AURORA AWARDS: LAST CALL TO VOTE! Talking about an award I have yet to win! Sigh.
Column 197: Sept. 1, 2017—TV OR MOVIE? AND I LIED! (a bit….) Death Note, a Westernized Japanese TV-to-movie.
Column 198: Sept. 22, 2017—TESSERACTS, PLUS SCIENCE FICTION AND MUSIC #1: DAVID CROSBY I interview the famous musician, and I’m in a new anthology
Column 199: October 6, 2017—REVIEW: F&SF SEPT.-OCT. 2017 Need I say more?
Column 202: October 13, 2017—HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#1—IT) One of three (okay, I owe you one… two) Stephen King columns
Column 203: October 20, 2017—HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#2—MR. MERCEDES) Number two of three… er, two so far, King columns.
Column 204: November 10, 2017—REVIEW: NOT ANOTHER ZOMBIE BOOK: “HELL IS EMPTY…” by Mark Rounds A fairly decent zombie book!
Column 205: November 17, 2017—BOOK REVIEWS: GARDNER’S “ALL THOSE EXPLOSIONS…” AND ROUNDS, MARKS II & III A very funny book by James Alan Gardner, and two more by Mark Rounds!
Column 206: November 24, 2017—REVIEW: BLADE RUNNER 2049 Self-explanatory much?
My numbering is messed up above, but it’s taking way too long to fix it. Those are all I could find; if you really care, email me at stevefah at hotmail dot com and I’ll send you my own list.
LAST WORDS: Pacific Northwest fans: Annalee Newitz, the author of Autonomous, is coming to Vancouver on Jan 15, and reading at Massy Books (2206 Main Street, Vancouver), one of Vancouver’s best-kept bookstore secrets. (Hey, I’d never heard of that store until I got this notice!) The reading is from 7-8:30 p.m. William Gibson raves about this writer and book… I have an Advanced Reading Copy (ARC), and should have a review for you soon. This will be her only area reading as far as I know—so Seattle fans should also take note! (After Vancouver, she’s headed for Regina (SK) and Toronto (ON)). We’ll be there, how about you?
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