John Varley 1947 – 2025
Author John Varley has passed. Varley passed at his home in Beaverton Oregon, surrounded by family, from complications of COPD and diabetes. A multiple award winner, the author is perhaps best known for his stories […]
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Tour the TOR December 2025 Releases
View in browser This email is a list of all the new science fiction, fantasy, and other genre books coming out in December 2025. We hope you find your next favorite read! FANTASY BOOKS […]
The Heinlein Society Is Considering Open Access For Its Archives
According to their website: “Open access to The Heinlein Journal archives is being considered as a way to maximize the reach, impact, and preservation of Heinlein scholarship by making it freely available and easily discoverable to readers, […]
Bring Back, Bring Back, Bring Back My Hugo To Me*
Chris Barkley, winner of the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer, has finally received his trophy. You can read all about it on File 770! *(My Hugo lies over the ocean, my Hugo lies […]
SF Commentary #122 November 2025 from Bruce Richard Gillespie
88 pages (Portrait/print edition); 128 pages (Landscape edition). Download from http://efanzines.com/SFC/index.html#sfc.122 Reviews from Claire Brialey, Colin Steele, Anna Creer. Paul Kincaid on Keith Roberts. Andrew Milner on Kim Stanley Robinson. Robert Day on Christopher Priest. […]
DickHeads Podcast Interviews Amazing Stories’ Steve Davidson
David Agranoff, author of the 25th Century Five and Dime posts here on Amazing Stories, author of The Last Night To Kill Nazis and in addition to hosting the Dickheads Podcast is host of the […]
Andrew Liptak Interviews John Scalzi
Andrew Liptak (Transfer Orbit) sat down with Scalzi at the Fletcher Free Library during the Green Mountain Book Festival in Vermont and interviewed him about his career, writing, science fiction, and quite a bit more. […]
LA Worldcon Will Offer Poetry Hugo Award
LAcon V, the 2026 Worldcon, announced on December 1, 2025 that they would use their authority under Section 3.3.20 of the WSFS Constitution to present a Hugo Award for Best Poem as part of the 2026 Hugo […]
Excerpt: Artificial Truth by J. M. Lee, Translated by Sean Lin Halbert
From J.M. Lee, a bestselling phenomenon in Korea, comes a haunting and mind-bending novel about the revolutionary possibilities of AI and the infinite mysteries of what it means to be human. In the virtual city […]
What Did We Stream Last Week? Just Watch Lets You Know
30% genre penetration across the board. For more in-depth analysis, check out these videos: Top 10 Movies – YouTube Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jnmdnsur_IA Top 10 TV Shows – YouTube Short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0sPh6-z9IrY from Just Watch: Highlights: Wicked claims […]
Excerpt: Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt’s house in the desert town of Quartz […]
The Friends of the Merril Collection Announce “Crafting Worlds: Pitching, Publishing and Promoting Your SF/Fantasy Ideas”
The Friends of the Merril Collection are pleased to announce our return with a panel discussion on Saturday, Dec 6th at 2 PM on the topic of “Crafting Worlds: Pitching, Publishing and Promoting Your SF/Fantasy […]
Should You Opt Out Of Gmail’s AI Data Sharing?
According to this article, Gmail users were automatically opted in to a new update that will share their email data for AI training. Gmail users were automatically opted in when the service launched. If you […]
SIDEWISE AWARDS WELCOMES THREE NEW JUDGES
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 21, 2025 SIDEWISE AWARDS WELCOMES THREE NEW JUDGES The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History will see a change in the judging panel beginning with the reading list for 2025 […]
IS An AI “Crash” In Our Near-Term Future?
Cory Doctorow seems to think so in an interesting article just released on Medium: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh This piece resonated with me not just because of its impressive analysis (which I’m […]
Lets Talk About the Martian Trilogy, Part 2
The recording of the online group conference attended by authors, editors and publishers of The Martian Trilogy – John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction and the Illustrated Feature Section is now available for […]
Excerpt: Between Two Kings by Lindsay Straube
Lindsay Straube returns with the sequel to The Kiss of the Basilisk. (Excerpt here) Along with thirteen other contestants, Tem must train with a basilisk to learn the power of seduction and win the prince’s […]
TV Play Based on 1928 Amazing Stories Short: The Pscyhophonic Nurse by David H. Keller, MD
Amazing Stories good friend Jean Marie Stine (Futures Past Editions) has sent along a cool find: An episode of the Pepsi-Cola Playhouse television show that ran from 1953 to 1955 (on your black and white […]
FANAC’s Fan History Zoom Takes On Seattle!
To attend, visit Fanac@fanac.org Steve DavidsonSteve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories. Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
N. K. Jemisin Named SFWA Grandmaster
N. K. Jemisin, the only author to ever win the Best Novel Hugo Award three years running. Jemisin first won a Hugo in 2016 for her novel The Fifth Season, the first book in her […]
Leonids Peak Tomorrow & Monday Nights
The Leonid Meteor shower, which has been showering since November 6th (it’s quite clean at this point) will reach peak shower the nights of November 16 and 17, toweling off by November 20th. Assisting the […]
Meet the Authors: The Martian Trilogy
A Zoom conference attended by members of the team of authors, editors and researchers who put The Martian Trilogy together has now been published to the Amazing Stories Television page on Youtube. Coming in at […]
Excerpt: SPACE SHIPS! RAY GUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODS! Interviews With Science Fiction Legends by Richard Wolinsky
THE PROBABILITIES INTERVIEWS Probably the most startling announcement any president ever made came on May 25, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy told Congress we would go to the moon before the end of the […]
Teasers: Quotes from THE MARTIAN TRILOGY
We were fortunate to gain contributions to this book from some marvelous authors…and literary scholars. Here are some excerpts from their various pieces which we hope will intrigu and inspire you: “YOU ARE THE DREAMER […]
TONIGHT! Meet (some of) the Authors of THE MARTIAN TRILOGY online
The Martian Trilogy – Meet the Authors Online Meeting We’ve set up not one but TWO Zoom meetings that will present several members of the team that authored the recently released THE MARTIAN TRILOGY: John […]
Progress on Mr. Trek’s 1/100th Scale Enterprise Model
Mr. Trek released a progress report video on his build of a massive, 1/100th scale Star Ship Enterprise (NCC 1701, without any appended letters cause this is a model of the original Enterprise from the […]
Scott Edelman Withdraws All Submissions From Must Read Magazines Titles
Scott Edelman, former editor of Science Fiction Age magazine (1992-2000) and the media titles Sci Fi Entertainment and Science Fiction Weekly, not to mention an author of both DC and Marvel comics, knows a little […]
The Martian Trilogy – Meet the Authors Online Meeting
We’ve set up not one but TWO Zoom meetings that will present several members of the team that authored the recently released THE MARTIAN TRILOGY: John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction and the […]
Otherwise Award Accepting Nominations
A reminder that this week is your last chance to recommend novels that (speculatively) address issues of gender (books that “explore or expand” our understanding of this topic) – here: https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-otherwise-award/2025-otherwise-award-recommendations But since these are […]
JMS Shares HE Renovations
J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) is Harlan Ellison’s estate executor. Early on he tackled producing an edition of The Last Dangerous Visions, as well as other estate work, but always in the mix was his […]
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Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
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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