All I Ask is a Tall Ship… and a Window Seat!
What good is traveling through space if you can’t look out the window? A spaceship voyage is no good without a window to look out of.
What good is traveling through space if you can’t look out the window? A spaceship voyage is no good without a window to look out of.
Another enhanced-radiation warhead exploded nearby, filling half the screen with a nebula-like cloud of light and debris. Botticelli Station squeezed out some more angular acceleration. The bulkheads creaked and Elfrida struggled to breathe as the G-force pressed her into her couch.
New SF series announces major casting add.
Before Batman, there was Gotham. Before Gotham, there was the Gotham Preview.
In this week’s viewing: Romance, family ties, their unhealthy flipsides, and more!
The Strain often gets referred to as dumb fun by its fans, but this episode is long on one of those qualities, with the other vitally absent.
The hub was the quasi-smart, widely mocked master of all their destinies. It controlled the air, the water, the recycling, the collision avoidance system, and many more systems that Elfrida could not have enumerated off the top of her head. But she did know about one other function, not much discussed by a crew who saw privacy as a currency in limited circulation rather than a right. The hub surveilled the public areas of the station around the clock. Dos Santos’s glance at the ceiling had been a warning as old as humanity itself.
Introducing AMAZING STORIES CLASSICS – reprints from the golden age of Amazing Stories magazine!
Why spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship? Why, indeed.
The Greatest SF Novels of ALL TIME list enters new territory!
Back in the late 1970s, Gil Kane and his collaborators fought the good fight, against more than aliens.
An explanation of the membership levels here at Amazing Stories.
Daleks is and anagram for Sladek. This seemingly random bit of word play has everything and nothing to do with Scide Splitters’ review of John Sladek’s short story collection.
Tanya takes on mainstream criticism of genre fiction. Uses Bradbury as metaphor, something most mainstream “authors” probably wouldn’t get…
“Well, it’s made from human skin cells,”Sister Emily-Francis said. She was the same girl with the rash on her face who had been part of Elfrida’s reception committee. Her hostility had melted when Elfrida praised her little charges at the school. ”We grew it using the bio-printer. We have to import stem cells anyway, and this works out cheaper than real soil and grass.”
The old story: in space, life was literally cheaper than dirt.
Linda T. Kepner announces a book bundle for her new vampire series.
The Alternate History genre did not spring up over night. In fact, it has deep literary and historical roots.
What Has Two Heads, Ten Eyes, and Terrifying Table Manners? is an anthology of science fiction horror reminiscent of The Twilight Zone or Outer Limits classic stories.
Dos Santos was an augment geek. She had EEG signalling crystals, a row of tiny skin-covered bumps like moles at her hairline, as well as the transducers implanted in her ears. She also had a BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) in her skull. That plus the EEG crystals enabled her to telecast without the headset that implant virgins like Elfrida had to wear, and also to interface with the net, where a signal was available, and the various databases on the Botticelli Station server. Thus, she could talk to her tablet without uttering or even subvocalizing a word. The graph she called up now had a Media Archives watermark.
The first volume in a proposed 50 volume set of yearbooks devoted to the history of science fiction.
Fiction RIver has been a huge success, particularly in introducing a diversity of themes.
M.C. Carper is back with an interview with Emilio Balcarce, journalist and comics writer.
“I’m not a robot. I’m human.” She prayed that they weren’t smashing Yumiko’s head in with rocks at this very instant. “This is a special kind of robot known as a phavatar.” How had they guessed? They weren’t supposed to guess. Geminoid-class phavatars usually fooled people. Yumiko was the ultimate geminoid: she even got goosebumps in the cold.
The latest news and updates from Loncon3, the 72nd World Science Fiction convention.
Read the posts your fellow fans are reading (at Worldcon too!)
We’re following the Hugo Awards ceremony live and updating our list to bring you up-to-date results of this important awards ceremony.
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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