Time Machine: January 15, 2023
The James Webb Space Telescope Is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies Images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the first galaxies in the universe are too many or too bright compared […]
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SF in Ukraine: Ten Ukrainian SF/F Writers You Never Knew You Must Read
Terrified by a war that has no place in the 21st century, the interest in Ukrainian history and culture has risen, including science fiction and fantasy. Writer Volodymyr Arenev and literary critic Mykhailo Nazarenko recently […]
Philip K. Dick Award 2023 Finalists
The 2023 Philip K. Dick Award finalists have been announced: Arboreality, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform) Widowland, C.J. Carey (Sourcebooks Landmark) Ymir, Rich Larson (Orbit US) January Fifteenth, Rachel Swirsky (Tordotcom) The Legacy of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson […]
The Big Idea: Nancy Kress
Science fiction is just that, a blend of the science we know, and the stories we wish to tell. The mixture of these two aspects was especially important to authors Nancy Kress and Robert Lanza, who co-authored their new […]
Kindred and Us…
“I’ve been a fan of Octavia Butler since reading my first novel by her, “Mind of My Mind,” about a vampiric telepath named Doro: an immortal from Africa that devours your soul, so he can […]
HarperCollins Workers Pass 40 Days on Strike with No Response from Company
Workers at HarperCollins Publishers entered 2023 still on strike, more than 40 days after about 250 employees at the publishing giant walked out when contract negotiations broke down in November. UAW Local 2110, which represents […]
How the James Webb Space Telescope advanced astronomy in its first year
As Christmas approached last year, astronomers and space fans around the globe gathered to watch the much-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. Though a wondrous piece of engineering, the telescope was not without its controversies — from […]
Happy Science Fiction Day!
January 2 is Science Fiction Day. (Illustration is, of course, the cover of the 1957 paperback edition of the nonexistent SciFi classic “Joy Day of the Planet X2-9 Harmonic Chickenoids.”) Many thanks to the surprisingly […]
Issue 744 Table of Contents, January 2023 – Locus Online
The January 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Annalee Newitz and Alex Jennings and spotlights on author adrienne maree brown and the Portolan Project. Greg Bear (1951-2022) is remembered with an obituary and […]
Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright jail this weekend
Watching the copyrights on art expire still feels like a novelty. After all, the US public domain was frozen in time for 20 years, thawing only in 2019. But this weekend’s Public Domain Day will […]
Guest Post: The Mythological Moorings of Alchemy of Glass By Barbara Barnett
Since you can’t go to the readings and signings, Amazing Stories brings them to you! Learn about the world-building and historical background for Barbara Barnett’s Apothecary series!
Review of the HD Re-Release of FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
HBO drops the ball on the BluRay release of From Earth to the Moon, the award-winning documentary series. This review includes a word from one of the original effects artists.
Announcing the ISFIC Writer’s Contest
Tracy Townsend, writer’s contest coordinator, wants you to enter this long-running writing contest!
Guest Post: The 19th Annual Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Doug Ellis fills us in on the fantastic offerings this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper convention.
timTalk: Tonight’s Episode – Schroedinger’s Cat
Timothy the Talking Cat, Camestros Felapton’s publishing partner, interviews one of the most reknowned cats of all time, Schroedinger’s Cat. The results are what you might expect.
I Went to Another World and Bought This T-Shirt by Alberto Chimal
An English translation of Alberto Chimal’s post Worldcon/Mexicanx Initiative post.
Zombies Need Brains…and You! Kickstarter Campaign
The SFWA qualifying small press Zombies Need Brains launches a Kickstarter. If you have any of your own (brains, that is) you’ll want to support this effort.
Excerpt from The Whispering Skull by Ed Greenwood
Wolf attacks…strange voices in the night…odd things are happening in this excerpt from Ed Greenwood’s new novel, The Whispering Skull.
Guest Editorial: Words Matter, Actions Matter and Race Definitely Matters by Chris M. Barkley
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I finished reading Christopher Nuttal’s editorial, “A Character Who Happens To Be Black” for the first time, I found myself remembering an oft told story about Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.
Guest Editorial: Humanity’s’ R&D Department – Science Fiction by David Gerrold
This is the primary function of science fiction — to be the Research and Development Division of the Human Species. This literature is the laboratory in which we consider the universe and our place in it. It is the place where we ask, “Who are we and what is our purpose here? What does it mean to be a human being?”
No other genre is as ambitious, no other genre considers as many powerful and disturbing questions. All the other branches of literature are about the past, they’re about how we got here, as if here is a static place. Only science fiction is about the future. Only science fiction is about change.
RAISING DAVE by Jack Strange
I woke up a third time because I sensed I wasn’t alone.
I wasn’t.
Raising Dave continues.
Out of Register
Your girlfriend has been brutally murdered. Except…she walks back into your life. What the hell is going on?
Blogger Invitado. Cristián Londoño Proaño: Tal vez los dioses si existen.
What would happen if we discovered another universe inhabited by gods. Would we even be able to comprehend them? Jorge Alberto Collao poses these and other questions in his latest novel.
A Brief History of Worldcons From NYCon to Discon, 1939-1962
The early years of fandom, and especially Worldcons, were wild and wonderful, featuring outsized personalities and innovations that are now standard features.
Guest Post by Foz Meadows: Unempathic Bipeds of Failure: The Relationship Between Stories and Politics
Owing to recent political developments, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about politics in SFF, not just as a general concept, but in relation to my own history with the genre.
Penny of Tharsis Montes by Sean Monaghan
A potentially deadly asteroid fall causes a Martian farmer to remember the days he spent on the red planet…and, perhaps, the days to come. A Gernsback Contest winning short story.
Lost Phoenixes by Stuart Barton
Survivors of a doomed Earth approach the moon, not certain if the people who fled there decades earlier will view them as friends or enemies. A Gernsback Contest winning short story.
The Size of the Fight by Matt Downer
A space veterinarian gets more than she bargained for when she moves – not voluntarily – to a small asteroid mining community. A Gernsback Contest winning short story.
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