The title of this piece draws upon a quote from Chandler’s most storied character, Commodore John Grimes, former officer of the Interstellar Federation’s Survey Service (secretly still a reserve officer, intelligence branch), private (space) ship […]
TACHYON PUBLICATIONS 30 Years of smart speculative fiction Memorial Day Sale! Save 20% on unforgettable science fiction, fantasy, and beyond. May 22–25 only Use code: MEMORIAL20 SHOP THE SALE →Hurry — sale ends May 25th. Discover More Amazing […]
Star Wars Survey Results The Galaxy Speaks: Original Trilogy Reigns, Chewbacca Tops Spin-Off Wish List Ahead of The Mandalorian & Grogu JustWatch today released its latest report on the Star Wars franchise, just ahead of […]
Fifty years and a couple of months from now, I would receive the following issue of Amazing Stories in the mail: and I would read the following in Ted White’s editorial: “Welcome to our 50th […]
It is 1929 and Hugo Gernsback has lost his publishing empire to bankruptcy. Later that same year he returns with competing magazines from a new publishing company. In one of many tactics used to market […]
Send Help Takes the Top Spot Send Help debuts at #1 on the US Streaming Charts. The thriller edges out Remarkably Bright Creatures (#2) and the classic The Devil Wears Prada (#3), signaling a strong appetite for new releases alongside familiar […]
Rachel Cordasco has been on of the genre’s champions of Speculative Fiction in translation, contributing articles and reviews on the subject to publications as venerable and varied as SF Signal (2014), Locus and Tor.com. In […]
LEARN MORE Deathbringer (Deluxe Edition) By Sonia Tagliareni * Stunning Deluxe Edition For fans of Naomi Novik and Kerri Maniscalco, “a slow-burn dark academia filled with delicious yearning, dripping with atmosphere, and a compelling mystery” […]
Over on his substack, Robert Charles Wilson, Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, has decided to review the Library of America’s anthology of 1950s (highly regarded) novels, novel-by-novel. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2, […]
Ellen Datlow (one of the field’s greatest editorial practitioners) is currently editing the 19th (!) volume of Night Shade Books’ Best Horror of the Year and offers the following information about submissions: (Ellen is) “currently […]
Ian (Eye an) Randal Strock of Fantastic Books unveils the contents of this “protest” anthology: Introduction by Ian Randal Strock Slow Burn in Alphabettown by Shariann Lewitt Horseman, Horseman, Horseman & Horseman, Attorneys at Law […]
Send Help takes the top spot for movies in the U.S. this week, with The Devil Wears Prada (2006) holding strong at #2 — still riding a wave of renewed interest following the theatrical release […]
I’m back home, with not a little bit of convention adventure under my belt. Bottom line: the event appears to have been a success on many levels: this was probably the last convention I’ll be […]
JPL offered up this interesting video about the Psyche spacecraft’s upcoming Martian slingshot maneuver, which will send the probe on the final leg of its mission, an encounter with the metal rich asteroid Psyche, in […]
MLB Players, Inc. and OneTeam Partners Team Up with Renowned Manga Artist Acky Bright and VIZ Media to Launch New Baseball Sci-Fi Epic – Introducing GalaXic Baseball League New York, May 8, 2026 […]
Victoria Strauss, doing exemplary work on behalf of authors everywhere, as always, profiles two new forms of scams designed to separate authors from their hard-earned and frequently not enough money in her latest Writer Beware […]
Greetings! For those that attended The Day The Earth Stood Still with Gort, The Time Machine or Forbidden Planet screenings- here’s the next exciting event. We don’t want you to miss this! ____________________________ From the Land Beyond Beyond… From the World […]
Sandra Bond is reporting on Facebook that Ted White has taken a turn and is now in palliative care, following a fall and declining health. Ted was a fixture in Washington DC area Fandom and […]
Hugo Award voting is now open! Anyone who is an Attending, Online (Virtual), or World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) member of LAcon V prior to the close of voting is eligible to vote in the […]
The Republic of Memory LEARN MORE The Republic of Memory By Mahmud El Sayed * A Memory Called Empire meets Children of Time in this Arabfuturist debut set on a generation ship on the […]
Visit DAW for these and more new titles NEW RELEASES: LOVE GALAXY by Sierra Branham A romantic science fiction thriller to bust you out of your reading slump! Sexy, snarky, and revolutionary, this fast-paced thrill […]
Amazing Stories’ assessment of “Genre Penetration” of streaming services is – film currently has a “weak” 50% (few genre assets are SFnal, the majority being horror/thriller in this case) while television is showing a “stronger” […]
LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards, the most prestigious honors for excellence in science fiction and fantasy. The members of the 2025 and 2026 World […]
The Astra Book Awards is an expansion of the annual Astra Television Awards and in its first year of featuring books, John Scalzi’s novel When the Moon Hits Your Eye has taken the honors. You […]
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s Hugo Award and one of Amazing Stories’ regular contributors – Steve Fahnestalk – is a finalist this year for the Best Fan Writing Category. If you are fortunate enough to […]
La segunda edición del Cosmonauta. Al tratarse de un libro capricho de autor, uno de esos donde reúno algunos de mis gustos personales en cuanto a los géneros, me había planteado la idea de no […]
‘Literary Forensics’ is a term used to describe the act of applying forensic techniques to the uncovering of lost stories, unpublished editions and hidden literary history. It is an informal discipline, usually only practiced by […]
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Celebrating Roger Zelazny, SFWA’s Infinity Award Recipient for the 61st Annual Nebula Awards San Francisco, CA – April 15, 2026 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers […]
Science Fiction is alive and well in a corner of the globe seldom heard from:* The Senkang Sci-Fi Quarterly has announced a release party to celebrate the release of their third issue, and you can […]
Four things to know this week: The Pitt holds onto the #1 spot ahead of its season finale Apollo 13 re-enters at #5, as U.S. audiences follow the return of Artemis II The Boys jumps to #2 after […]
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Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
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