Kaaron Warren is a multi-award-winning Australian writer based in Canberra, Australia. She’s sold over 200 short stories to publications big and small around the world, including Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best. She was Guest of Honour […]
Now you can help us reward our contributors by voting for your favorite third quarter 2024 story from our FREE STORY offerings! Every Monday we publish free fiction on the Amazing Stories’ website. Once every […]
*JustWatch Interplanetary Spaceport) The fine folks at JustWatch have sent along the listings for films and TV shows that will be departing and arriving on your favorite streaming services (subject, of course, to unscheduled meteor […]
SpaceX’s main goal with the fifth launch of its Starship and heavy booster was to capture the booster at the launch site with giant gripping arms positioned at the top of a tower. This morning, […]
AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS Shirley Meier shares this news about Ceres Scott Edelman shares birthday wishes for Robert Reed Al Sirois is preparing art for library endcaps J Michael Straczynski shares plans for the Ellison Estate […]
SpaceX will attempt its fifth test launch of the monstrous Starship rocket…and this time they may even attempt to capture the booster on landing. Multiple Youtube channels are providing live coverage, including SpaceFlightNow. You can […]
John E. Stith’s upcoming new release from Amazing Selects – Disavowed – receives an early Kirkus Review! Kirkus had this to say: “a lively, engaging space jaunt with elements of justice and payback in the […]
Alex Jennings is a comedian, educator, and award-winning author whose writing has appeared in Current Affairs Magazine, pseudopod.org, and New Suns, volumes 1 and 2. He is an instructor of Popular Fiction at the Stonecoast MFA program as […]
Two kingdoms. One prophecy. One king. One chance to save everything. Arwen Valondale began life as no one, as nothing. But now she’s risen to unimaginable heights, done astonishing deeds, and fallen in love . […]
Bonus link: JustWatch took a look at all of the content featuring The Joker, owing to the recent release of Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to Joker. You can find all of your Joker content […]
James Davis Nicoll recently published an article in the Seattle Worldcon’s newsletter titles “The PLight of Modern Young Adult Science Fiction” – for which he is taking a little heat, and which also touches on […]
This edition of Amazing News is sponsored by the Tiny Time Machine omnibus edition Of Special Note PBS American Masters features a discussion of the contributions and legacy of Judy-Lynn del Rey. Nick Mamatas links […]
If you’ve ever watched The Blob, Earth vs The Flying Saucers, This Island Earth, The War of the Worlds, It, the Creature From Beyond Space, Invaders From Mars or any of the others, good and […]
Sean McMullen worked for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for over three decades, in areas ranging across satellite tracking, systems design, disaster contingency and Year 2000 conversion. During those same decades he went home and […]
You asked for it so we’ve done it! John E. Stith’s exciting teen adventure series – TINY TIME MACHINE – now has an omnibus edition! and it goes on sale October 1st! Here’s what SFWA […]
Of Special Note Jim Emerson’s Futures Past A Visual History of Science Fiction 1929 volume has been announced: From the newsletter – FUTURES PAST 1929 So, the moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. FUTURES […]
It is clear that book marketing has changed radically over the past several decades. This is not all that surprising considering how much the entire publishing industry has changed during that time. Publishers have had […]
Today we are pleased to announce the release of the Spanish Language version of the Amazing Stories website! Almost from the beginning of the site, we have endeavored to include science fiction voices from across […]
EJ Kavounas is a writer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two poodle mix dogs. His first short story, ‘Soiling the Nest’ was published in Infinite Worlds magazine in 2022 and […]
We’re pleased to announce the release, cover and contents of the latest issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!, Summer, 2024 edition. THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION Summer 2024 • 75th […]
Just Watch took a look at what’s popular in stream film and TV shows and here’s the skinny – In television, genre is at 40% – provided that you count some genre-adjacent content (Shogun in […]
Pics or proof, right? When you face the possibility of confronting gothic horrors – as one might at the Providence Athenaeum, a frequent haunt of Edgar Allen Poe, it might be best to be prepared […]
Of Special Note We have recently added eight new contributors, all of whom will be writing Spanish Language content for the website. Please join us in welcoming – Rocio Quispe Agnoli, Luis Apolin, Luis Bravo, […]
I spent the morning preparing for and then traveling the roughly half hour to visit Ultracon at the South Florida Expo Center at the South Florida State Fairgrounds. The trip was pretty straight forward, made […]
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is the author of the horror novel Grim Root, the short story collection Where You Linger & Other Stories, and the horror novella Glorious Fiends. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared […]
We had some issues with this go-’round of the quarterly Reader’s Choice Awards…some internal, some external. We know what we have to do in order to correct the internal issues which should effectively address the […]
Dean thinks it is essential for you to know that – Correction: Oct 1st Writer’s Block FREEDOM I made a mistake on my blog the first night and on the newsletter yesterday, and said the […]
News will be delayed until this afternoon today as we attend (virtually) Albacon convention.
Stephen Dedman is the author of the novels The Art of Arrow Cutting, Shadows Bite. Immunity, three Shadowrun novels (with more to come), and more than 120 short stories published in an eclectic range of magazines and anthologies and […]
Pics or no proof, right? Here you go: the Enterprise’s transporter in Quick Change mode! Before beaming down to whatever planet he is currently gracing with his presence, David Gerrold has programmed the transporter (oh, […]
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