Recap: “The Replacements,” American Horror Story: Coven, Episode 3
American Horror Story is many things: polished, sexy, camp, dark, quippy. The show’s greatest weaknesses, the things that it’s not, include subtle and mature.
Noticias Literatura 23-10
Patrick Rothfuss en España El estadounidense Patrick Rothfuss visitará por primera vez España el próximo mes de noviembre. El autor de “El nombre del viento” y “El temor de un hombre sabio,” de los que se han […]
¿Por qué crear una revista de ciencia ficción?
Why create and publish a science fiction magazine? Why indeed.
LoneStarCon 3 Photos
With my schedule pressing in on me from all sides, I decided this was a good time to share some more photos from the 71st Worldcon. LoneStarCon 3 was filled with amazing fans and dazzling stars. All photos were taken by Shawn McConnell. Hope you enjoy these LoneStarCon 3 photos.
The Originals Isn’t Exactly Original
“The Originals” is just another “Vampire Diaries” set in modern day America with lots of flash backs. It’s interesting because we already know many of the characters, but do we really need another “Vampire Diaries?”
Choosing Your Tense…and Keeping It
Have you taken the time to consider tense in your story?
Reddit SF Writer of the Day – Amazing’s Editor & Publisher
Rough Trade, Steve’s edgy, comedic flash fiction examination of the Fermi Paradox is accompanied by some background of the author and some thoughts on the writing process.
On the Study of the Fantastic, Part II
I was deeply tempted to title this post “Academia for Fun and Profit,” but it seemed a bit misleading as the vast majority of people tend to read “profit” as traditional monetary gain.
Digital Imprints
Publishing. It’s been experiencing a revolution, and for a time, no one was quite sure where it was going…especially for traditional publishers.
iHobby 2013
Every year in October the hobby industry has an exposition for the hobby industry manufacturers to reach the retailing community and show off their new and existing products
Zombies Is Stoopid. Characters Is Too.
Oh Zombies, how do I love thee, let me count the ways…
Book Review: The Long Earth Series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett
A couple weekends ago I experienced the rare opportunity of having nothing to do. So to celebrate I sat down and just read. Now I can share with you the fruit of that unproductive weekend by reviewing for you the entire Long Earth series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett.
Book Review: Tell My Sorrows to the Stones
It’s week five of Six Weeks of Scares. This time out, our subject is a single author collection, namely Tell My Sorrows to the Stones by Christopher Golden. Golden’s work has been highly acclaimed and in horror circles he’s well respected. This book contains a dozen reasons why that’s the case. Golden’s work is of the quiet school of horror, much like that of the late Charles L. Grant. The selections presented here have a wide range of tone and subject matter.
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part V: The Japanese Fascination with Spirits
Every culture has its ghost stories. Here in the West, ours tend toward narratives depicting souls who died violent deaths and have returned to take revenge. Or perhaps we tell tales of those who have died too soon and only wish for eternal playmates. As I briefly mentioned in my post last week, the Japanese have a very rich and far-reaching pantheon of spooks. The majority of these ghosts and their stories grew out of the Edo period (1603-1867; thus why a show like Mononoke asserts itself as particularly Japanese horror), and ghost stories with a certain antiquated style to them, or an air of the past, are usually referred to as kaiden (mysterious or strange recited narrative), whereas more modern horror stories would simply be called hora (a Japanization of “horror”).
Serge Brussolo et les Kaiju
Serge Brussolo est un auteur unique et atypique. Il a publié des oeuvres foisonnantes souvent purement fantasmatique. Il a souvent abordé un imaginaire organique et biologique. Et comme Serge Brussolo a le sens de la démesure et un goût certain pour le cinéma bis et ses images souvent hors normes il était inévitables qu’un jour ou l’autre il aborde la thématique des monstres géants. Il leur a consacré plusieurs romans et il a été suffisamment inventifs pour se détacher de ses modèles japonais.
Film Review: Sorry About Tomorrow
8 hours ain’t a lot of time to make a movie. The 48 Film Project has given us a lot of films, some of which have been remarkable, and some of which have been among the worst films ever made. I should know: I’ve made a couple of those. In recent years things seems to have changed and the pinnacle of these films are among the best shorts I’ve seen all year. Like There’s Nothing Funny About a Clown in Love and Snow in the City from San Francisco, the winners in several other cities have really moved me, and none of them with the intelligence and dark logic of Sorry About Tomorrow.
SW #23.4 – NYCC ’13 Interview With Rebecca Sugar & Ian Jones-Quartey
Rebecca Sugar is an artist, composer and director who is best known for being a writer and storyboard artist on the series Adventure Time. Ian Jones-Quartey is a storyboard artist, animator and voice actor who supplies the voice of Wallow in Bravest Warriors. He has also served as a storyboard supervisor for Adventure Time and storyboard artist for Secret Mountain Fort Awesome and as art director for The Venture Bros.
Fátima Rodríguez Serra—Arte Óptico-Poesía por M. C. Carper
M. C. Carper para Amazing Stories: Hola ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus palabras, por favor.
Fátima Rodriguez Serra: Soy una ciudadana peruana que nació el 30 de junio del año 1956 en el mágico y monumental distrito de Barranco en la ciudad de Lima, mi nombre es Fátima Rodríguez Serra, soy Economista de profesión, dibujo y pinto arte óptico en homenaje a las matemáticas y a la geometría, escribo y recito poemas inspirados en el amor, y leo y escribo cuentos para niños e historias de ciencia ficción.
Well-Covered
I’d get more into the topic, but I haven’t got time to plumb the depths of Amazon. Instead I recommend that you do. Look at the genre you picked for your story, and see what the bestsellers are (taking out authors like RR Martin and mega-bestsellers, who can sell on the author’s name alone) and look at their covers. Keep in mind that most ebooks will be viewed at a very small size of image initially, and design yours to look good at thumbnail, then full-size. Stick to the recommended proportions. A square cover image will scream amateur in the bookshop, unless it’s a children’s picture book…
ABSOLUTE ZERO: Cool Websites, Very Cool
Hackerspace.org. Find cool places and cool people to hang out and DO with
Excerpt: The Sacred Band a Novel by Janet Morris & Chris Morris
This excerpt is from early in “The Sacred Band,” our mythic novel that begins in 338 BCE on the battlefield of Chaeronea. There, Tempus’ Sacred Band of Stepsons rescue twenty-three pairs of doomed warriors and take these survivors of the Theban Sacred Band to Sanctuary, the town that the shared-universe Thieves World® made famous.
The Artful Collector: Art Hierarchies #3: Art Done for Love is Better than Art Done for Money
The more we detect fake sentiment or emotion, or (in our case) pandering to a love of dragons and wizards – as opposed to honest “self-expression” – the less we are going to care whether “just for the love of it” was the reason for creation
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Apollo 11
There’s nothing quite like having Walter Cronkite narrate live on national TV how well you did your job on Apollo, especially on the day that Neil Armstrong was coming back from the Moon.
A Matter of Fact – Getting it Right
There may be nothing worse than reading a science fiction story only to discover the author ignored the important element of plausibility. Just because the work is fiction, it does not give one the artistic license to shirk on the facts. So, where can authors go to get it right?
The Club House October 18
Of note is the upcoming Corflu, the annual convention for fanzine fans, which next year will be held in Richmond, Virginia, May 2nd to 4th 2014.
News That Can’t Wait: Award Winning Author Douglas Smith’s Novel Debuts
Douglas Smith, author of the recently Aurora Awarded short story The Walker of the Shifting Borderland, has announced the release of his much anticipated novel THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD. None other than […]
Sequential Wednesdays #23.3 – NYCC ’13 Interview With Colleen AF Venable
My third interview at New York Comic-Con was with the book designer Colleen AF Venable, who has been designing the books published by First Second. Over her 4 year tenure, she has designed many award-winning graphic novels (some awarded for their design) and writes a children’s comic series.
Cero Absoluto. Páginas del género en español: Ciencia Ficción Perú.
Por iniciativa de Daniel Salvo, esta página web se inició en el 2002 con el ánimo de difundir, compartir reseñas, cuentos y todo lo relacionado con la ciencia ficción en un soporte HTLM gratuito. Esto duró hasta 2008 en que la gratuidad del soporte se terminó y la página migró hacia un formato en blog.
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