Award-winning author and editor Julie E. Czerneda was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2022. She has written twenty-three science fiction and fantasy novels (and counting), published by her […]
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 […]
Michael A. Ventrella writes witty stories like the Teddy Roosevelt steampunk adventure “Big Stick,” the fantasy series with titles like “The Axes of Evil,” and the political thriller “Bloodsuckers: A Vampire Runs for President.” He’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rosemary Claire Smith is a two-time AnLab Award-nominated author who writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and RPGs. She started out as a field archaeologist and has yet to give up her dream of jumping back […]
Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science fiction writer, author of twelve novels and many short works. His most recent novel is Stealing Worlds, about one woman’s odyssey through a near-future of pervasive AI and blockchain-driven […]
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 […]
Mur Lafferty is a writer, podcaster, and editor. Her works include the longest-running writing podcast (I Should Be Writing, est 2005), the novelization of Solo: A Star Wars Story, and the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Unveiling “ESPionage: Regime Change” – A Thrilling Blend of Espionage and Psychic Warfare August 28, 2023 — Get ready for a mind-bending journey into the world of espionage like never before. “ESPionage: Regime […]
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 […]
In a momentous event held at the Cultural Center of Thailand, the Minister of Culture, Itthipol Khunpluem, announced the highly awaited recipient of the National Artist award for the year 2022. Among the twelve remarkable […]
MAURIZIO MANZIERI is an Italian illustrator, two times finalist for the Hugo Awards as Best Professional Artist, four times winner of the Asimov’s Readers’ Award as Best Cover Artist and recipient in 2021 of the European […]
Scientists sometimes make bold claims about where their research might lead, but the most weighty assertions are usually scaled back or forgotten entirely as new data becomes available. Several years ago, scientists at Fermilab suggested […]
Some planets cannot hold onto their atmospheres. It’s thought that most of whatever atmosphere Mars may have had was annihilated by the solar wind billions of years ago, even as Earth and Venus held on […]
Tom Easton has been publishing science fiction and fantasy since the 1970s and spent 30 years as Analog’s book columnist. He has appeared four times in Amazing Stories magazine, in 1979, 1981, 2014, and 2017. He […]
KKR, a private investment firm, has successfully reached a definitive agreement to acquire Simon & Schuster from its parent company, Paramount Global, for a sum of $1.62 billion. Simon & Schuster had been on the […]
Some of the best stories are retellings of old ones. If something has been done before, that doesn’t mean you can’t also do it, you just have to put your own spin on it. This […]
Frank Wu has been publishing science fiction and fantasy artwork since around 1998. He’s won four Hugo Awards for his art, which has appeared in Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Fantastic Stories and […]
Amazing Stories is looking for passionate volunteer writers to join our team! If you love science fiction and fantasy, this is the perfect opportunity for you. We need reviewers for books, comics, movies, TV shows, […]
Jen Frankel is a crafter of exotic worlds, a purveyor of fantastical possibilities, and delver into deep truths. Her work has appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories and (upcoming later in 2023) Analog Science […]
Christie Yant and Arley Sorg announced in the August 2023 editorial that Fantasy Magazine will be closing. This is the editorial we’ve been dreading having to write. We’ve been trying not to think about it […]
One planet per orbit—that’s the way all the planets and exoplanets discovered so far operate, but that might not be universal. Scientists analyzing a solar system called PDS 70 say there’s evidence of more than […]
A new book is coming from our own AMAZING SELECTS book line! ESPionage: Regime Change When the Russians start an undeclared war to bring down the West with assassinations and disinformation attacks, the CIA reactivates […]
Terence Jackson, born in South Carolina while his father was stationed at Fort Jackson Air Force Base, grew up near the University of South Carolina Gamecocks stadium, where he developed a love for SciFi by […]
Enlarge / Most of the explanations for this phenomenon involve a neutron star, depicted above. These explanations are uniformly terrible. On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM […]
John E. Stith’s first science fiction sale was to FANTASTIC SCIENCE FICTION, a sister magazine to AMAZING STORIES. His second sale was to AMAZING STORIES. Since then, he has sold eight science-fiction novels to Ace […]
This is an exciting month for all of you Wild Cards fans out there… and for all the other readers who have not discovered Wild Cards yet. (What are you waiting for??) We’re pleased to […]
Enlarge / A light, cheap space telescope design would make it possible to put many individual units in space at once. Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. […]
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