AMAZING NEWS: Double Issue 9/15-9/22/24

Of Special Note

We have recently added eight new contributors, all of whom will be writing Spanish Language content for the website.  Please join us in welcoming – Rocio Quispe Agnoli, Luis Apolin, Luis Bravo,  Daniel Collazos, Sarko Medina, Sophie Canal Gargurevich, Tania Huerta and Kristina Ramos to Amazing Stories.  You can learn more about them at their respective links.

Other Special Note

Owing to this and that, I was not able to update last week’s news roundup with the news, so this week, a double bill – last week’s entries and this week’s entries.  Settle in.

Of Really Special Note

Our good friend Brianna Wu made a very personal video explaining many things – an on-going medical condition that will eventually rob her of her voice, her journey as a trans  woman and a lot more.  You should give it a watch.

AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS

Ellen Datlow shares some amazing video from artist Jonathan Carroll

David Agranoff reviews Chuck Tingle’s Bury Your Gays

Milton Davis promises (“promises”) that The Curious Cases of Martha Perrywinkle will be released in 2025.

Paul Di Filippo found an old photo in a Fanzine

Barbara Krasnoff shares a bit of book blurb history and commentary on Women writing SF

Nnedi Okorafor writes AFRICANFUTURISM dammit!  Amazing Stories strongly suggests that you do not tell her what she writes, ’cause we think she knows what she writes better than you do.

Lynne Fahnestalk makes robots, and this is why

Scott Edelman shares birthday wishes for his wife – Irene Vartanoff

Nnedi Okorafor recommends Robot Dreams

Scott Edelman shares birthday wishes for Rosemary Claire Smith 

Bob Eggleton announces the final title for the Frank Kelly Freas artbook

Scott Edelman shares 76th birthday wishes for George R. R. Martin

and one more from Scott – sharing birthday wishes for Andy Duncan

Fandom

The First Fandom Foundation (of which your publisher is a paid-in-full Charter Member) has published its latest issue of Scientifiction, a quarterly newszine, in which it is announced that with its new name, it is now the successor organization to First Fandom, a group the was originally open only to those Fans who could trace their Fannish lineage back to the founding days of Fandom (1930s).  The change was necessitated by the passing of the last First Fan (Robert ‘Bob’ Madle June 2, 1920 – October 8, 2022).  A new website has been created and new membership rules have been formulated and approved by what I guess you could call the “caretaker” members.  You’ll find the website here and membership  rules here (essentially, if your demonstrable fannish involvement goes back 30 years or more, you are eligible.  My bona fides are letters to Amazing Stories, lol).

The Brisbane in 2028 Bid is now active and Fans can pre-support.

Chris Garcia announces that both The Drink Tank and Claims Department fanzines are hitting their 20th anniversary. (Link to private post)

Space

The Polaris Dawn mission successfully launched

More issues with Starliner as it  returned from the ISS

Starliner Astronauts find “some things that we just could not get comfortable with”

NASA will soon be launching the Europa Clipper (cue clip from 2010…)

Voyager One, despite clogged fuel lines, keeps on trucking

Artemis 1 Missions studied space radiation closely

Science

New findings discover that pterosaurs flew using both soaring and flapping

Giant Gas Bubbles Move Across the Surface of a Star

A new theory on the great dying that wiped out 90% of life on Earth

Some eels can escape from the stomachs of the fish that eat them (this means – do not eat live eels)

Research shows that there are some periodic (repeating) three-body orbits

New evidence offers different theory for the end of the Easter Island inhabitants

This company wants us to live underwater

The Doomsday Glacier is Dooming

Wormholes are secretly changing our reality

Industry

Why look at a screen when you can wear it?

Publishers are experimenting with thinner books

Reviews

Rich Horton sent along links to several reviews –

Robert Siliverberg: Across a Billion Years

James Morrow: Behold the Ape

Cordwainer Smith: Norstrilia

He also has a roundup of his reviews of Hugo Award nominated novels

A review of our Cents of Wonder anthology

Literature

VIZ Media Announces Exclusive Bicoastal Events with “BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War” Voice Stars Masakazu Morita and Noriaki Sugiyama

The future release of the first post public-domaining of Buck Rogers has been announced (Buck Rogers enters the public domain next year)

JMS shares a review of The Last Dangerous Visions

Art

Astronaut Sarah Gillis plays Rey’s Theme while aboard the ISS – the first time a violin has been played in space

Social Commentary

A robot was used by police to capture an armed gunman.  (Though it was not an autonomous robot.  Thank goodness.)

Just For Fun

A tardigrade hitches a ride on a nematode, one of the water bears primary predators

Mini-Editorial

We really DO appreciate it when our friends and associates go out of their way to help promote the website, our publications and our projects!  So thank you David Agranoff, who wore our SF100 Celebrating 100 Years of Science Fiction T-shirt to a book signing for his novel The Last Day To Kill Nazis.  You can find that shirt and others in our store

In the Future

Monday Free Fiction – A Canticle for Ackerman by Paul Di Filippo
Tuesday – The Big Idea: Abigail Owen
Wednesday – Unexpected Questions with E. J. Kavounas
Thursday – What Happened to An AMERICAN WEREWOLF In LONDON?
Friday – Matt’s Reviews: The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Featured Image

A screen cap from a video posted by Future Science on Facebook, showing Saturn rising over the Moon