I had another motive for agreeing: Veshi was charming, good-looking, and preternaturally magnetic. Of course, as an anthropologist I couldn’t get involved with a member of a people I was studying – that would have been unprofessional, to say the least.
Musk’s Mars, Air Force Academy, Mysterious Cuban Embassy Illness, Cities of Octopi, Wonder Woman on Wonder Woman, Sexbot Molested and more (oh, so much more!)
Top posts of the past month, Star Wars, Awards, 1989 Hugo Controversy and more pixels than you can shake a scroll at
Pablo Lennis, Spartacus, Opuntia, Ionosphere and the Revenge of Hump Day
When more people visit the site, there’s more popular posts to round up!
Mars flyer, rocket explosions, spiral galaxies, Hard SF stats, Heliosphere, GRRM and more
TEENS ENLIST THE FAE TO WIN A WAR IN IRELAND
Emmy awards, Elgin awards, Shirley Maiewski, Haiyan Xu, Adam West, Horror and Star Trek.
Rubber Crab, Alexiad, Revenge of Hump Day, Iota, Opuntia, BCSFanzine, Tightbeam and Cyber Cozen, plus a link to Concatenation.
So much to read, so little time. That’s why something like this roundup is useful.
Women in SF; men in SF; Cassini, Krugman, Valerian, the gill man, Space Telescopes, Forbidden Planet, Limbaugh, Wonder Woman and bluesy astrobiologists (my professor done told me….)
Jerry Pournelle, Heinlein Society, Dwarf Stars, Sputniks, dueling Comiccons and 4E
September’s Ansible and three issues of The Reluctant Famulus
Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away 9/8/2017. He was a major influence on the field in many ways – his fiction, his collaborations, his generosity, his service. He could be prickly, he could be intimidating, he could be sympathetic. Whether one agreed or disagreed with his many and varied positions on all manner of subjects, he always argued the facts.
The winner of the third annual Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award is “Wise Child” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.
The award was decided by a public vote among the 15 short stories in Baen Books’ The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Vol. 3, edited by David Afsharirad.
Vibrator #43, Fornax #20, Opuntia #389, The Revenge of Hump Day 30 August & 6 September and the September issue of Surprising Stories.
Reviews, interviews, commentary, short stories, artwork and news items all made the most viewed list this past week. Traffic wise, the first week of September 2017 has been good for Amazing Stories. These articles are the reason why.
There were dark stains on the pavement with police tape cordoning them off from pedestrians. I loitered around, trying to come to terms with what I’d done.
David A. Hardy space art, new Lunar probes, impending Jupiter fly-by, pulp publications, Space X, Ben Bova, and much more
Jemisin wins another award, fans remember Oscar Goldman and much much more from the world of fandom.
Kaufman & Tompkin’s Littlebrook, Spier’s Opuntia, N3F’s for August and Bolgeo’s Return of Hump Day.
Trending this week, alternate Israels, a guest editorial on diversity, movie villains, new romantic releases, a review of Benford, more
Our serialization of Jack Strange’s macabre tale resumes.
Tributes to Brian Aldiss, Worldcon 75 aftermath, PKD anthology show, Near Earth Asteroid, Roy Krenkel art, authors speaking truth to power, nuclear zeppelins, more exoplanets and killer robots. What’s not to like?
Brian Aldiss, WSFA Small Press Award, ST: TNG, floating rocks (unobtanium?) Starship Troopers sequel, Jay Kay Klein convention photos and the Pixel Scroll
File 770’s paper issues archive updated on the FANAC website.
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