Out in hardback this summer, Neal Asher’s War Bodies is a gripping, high-octane standalone set in his expansive Polity world and we’re delighted to reveal the cover (above) AND Chapter One. Here is the official […]
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 […]
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: January 29, 2023 AMAZING NEWS: 1-29-23 The Facts in the Matter of Hugo Gernsback and Stanley G. Weinbaum Let’s Make A Sci-Fi 2 asteroids the size of 100 pugs to pass […]
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 […]
Can three comedians create a legit sci-fi show? Comedians Ryan Beil, Maddy Kelly, and Mark Chavez are going to find out. Over eight episodes, they’ll try to write a serious, and seriously nerdy, pilot […]
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 […]
We absolutely loved Edward Ashton’s Mickey7 at SciFiNow, saying it “packs in the peril but still leaves you with the warm and fuzzies” in our four-star review. And we’re not the only ones, with the novel being […]
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. […]
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, […]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Preliminary Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see https://www.horror.org/) is the premier writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with […]
Orbit Books. h/b. £14.99 Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins Professor Emily Wilde was, in fact, the youngest professor to have been appointed to Cambridge University, where she has happily spent her years researching and documenting the […]
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, […]
Author Dean Koontz discusses his new novel, The House At The End Of The World, Hannibal Lecter, Aliens and… erm… polishing gemstones…. Genre author legend, Dean Koontz, returns to our bookshelves this month with his […]
One advantage writers get when they work in different fields of writing is more tools for their professional toolbox — but as James L. Cambias points out in this Big Idea for The Scarab Mission, […]
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: January 22, 2023 2023 DGA Awards Film and TV Nominations The Directors Guild of America have announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film and Outstanding Directorial Achievement […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Moon and Space Exploration are magnets for fake news. In August 2022 a prominent French physicist discovers a star and later admits it was a piece of chorizo. July 1969. Man lands on the […]
The Washington Science Fiction Association has announced the opening of nominations for its annual award. Award: Original short fiction works (17,500 words or fewer) of imaginative literature (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative fiction, or […]
Images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the first galaxies in the universe are too many or too bright compared to what astronomers expected. Evidence is building that the first galaxies […]
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 […]
Reviewed by Joely Black Jackdaw is one of the most unusual novels I’ve read. It is not a conventional fantasy story but an exploration of creativity, sanity, and perhaps even the nature of art and truth […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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