It’s tough to make your garden successful; seems sometimes you’ve got to use supernatural ways to do it. Well, sometimes, it might be more supernatural than natural, and sometimes, not so super… I didn’t realize […]
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: November 23, 2025 The Friends of the Merril Collection Announce “Crafting Worlds: Pitching, Publishing and Promoting Your SF/Fantasy Ideas” Should You Opt Out Of Gmail’s AI Data Sharing? The Big Idea: […]
British SF Conventions Volume 4: 1958-1965 Is New TAFF Release. In Rob Hansen’s British SF Conventions Volume 4: 1958-1965, the latest addition to TAFF’s library of free downloads, he promises — Among the burning questions of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reality can oftentimes be stranger than fiction. Author Cadwell Turnbull speculates on this funny thing we call reality in the Big Idea for his newest novel, A Ruin, Great and Free. Follow along to… Source: […]
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 […]
This week Steve reviews a series that he spoke about ten years ago; the author recently died, and Steve has taken another look at the series. He thinks you might find it interesting. (You may thank him or curse him depending on how the books hit you.)
Here’s the weekly post from my author blog on the new releases I found to be of interest in my three favorite romance genres (which are also the ones I write in!), and related areas […]
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 […]
Author: Terry Pratchett Series: Discworld #30 Narrator: Stephen Briggs Duration: 7 hr 10 min Format: Audio Disks Publisher: Clarion Books Published: 12/14/2004 Print Published: 2003 The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett is a […]
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 […]
It’s been quite a while since I’ve contributed to the cite. Things have been a bit crazy; I won’t bore you with the details. But, I’m back and hopefully will be able to contribute more […]
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 […]
A heart attack, life and all its craziness, and the loss of a close friend certainly threw a wrench (or multiple wrenches) into author Ryk E. Spoor’s life, but it didn’t stop him from writing […]
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 […]
This week’s standout titles include Frankenstein (2025), now generating early Golden Globe and BAFTA buzz, and Pluribus, rising to the top spot amid strong critical reviews. Wicked joins them as a major mover, breaking into the top 10 on […]
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 […]
A tale on the distant future, almost post-civilization, about the state of a human mind, the near-immortal capacity of humans, and the tolerance of death. Can it be avoided? Yes, but it’s not how you […]
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. Lost Lives – by Noah Chinn Publisher: Noah Chinn Books, 2025. Cover Art – by ©Wicked Good Book Covers. Premise: This is the 3rd book […]
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: November 16, 2025 Leonids Peak Tomorrow & Monday Nights Meet the Authors: The Martian Trilogy The Big Idea: Ren Hutchings Excerpt: SPACE SHIPS! RAY GUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODS! Interviews With Science Fiction […]
Pixel Scroll 11/15/25 No, I Am Your Pixel (1) BOOKSELLER’S ARTICLE ABOUT TOP 50 SFF BOOKS IN UK SO FAR IN 2025. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] Although The Bookseller’s article “Bestsellers – Romantastic: Romantic Fantasy […]
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 […]
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 […]
The word “sonder” refers to the realization that every other person is living their own, whole life outside of what you see. For author Ren Hutchings, she has experienced this with side characters in media, […]
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 […]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Publish Date: 2006 Print Publish Date: 1966 Format: […]
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 […]
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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