For those not greatly familiar with the Grand Master and perhaps a bit curious following a recent review of one of his novels, we present the ultimate resource – The Heinlein Society website. Go take a look – regardless of your own feelings about the author, it may just give you even more reasons to get hepped up.
Wanting to be a Fan makes you a fan – despite whatever litmus tests, obstacles or hoops to jump through some may want to throw in your way.
Back in the Good Old (or Bad, depends on your point of view) Days, fiction—especially SF—that was written for a teen audience was called “Juvenile” fiction; I don’t believe any disparagement was meant, or at […]
A review of the new short story collection from Fabián Álvarez López
Ralph 124C41+ was the first modern american science fiction novel, written by the father of science fiction, Hugo Gernsback, and published in installments in his Modern Electrics magazine in 1911. One of our contributors acquired a 1st edition decades ago and it is now going up on the auction block.
Mr. Cameron introduces us to Ukrainian science fiction fandom, from its former life under Russian rule to its future life…under Russian rule?
“Greetings! Welcome to SciFi4Me.com – where we talk science fiction, not wrestling. “ I ask you how can one not love a sci-fi based website that has that as the first thing you see on […]
Luis Cermeno examines the benefits and the conflicts that occur when science fiction publishing meets the creative commons.
Turns out that one of the most terrifying of astronomical objects may be a giver of life. Andrew Weston explains.
In this week’s viewing: Samurai Flamenco confronts insanity, Kill la Kill and Nobunagun say that’s fine because it’s awesome, and more!
Violence on Hannibal is so operatic, so rococo. Its inventiveness is so refreshing that, if it weren’t upsetting, it would almost be beautiful.
Gary Dalkin interviews a new master of Horror, author of The Other Room, Falling Over and The Shelter.
Niles Golan is an ex-pat Brit in Hollywood. Never grown-up, he narrates his life with an internal monologue transforming his everyday inadequacies into triumphs. Niles is his own fictional creation: to himself, a genius novelist […]
Nina gives great writing advice. More importantly, she ‘shows’ rather than ‘tells’. Her latest concerns authorial viewpoints: how do you look at your story?
The Guardians of the Galaxy isn’t Marvel Comics’ only space-faring team.
In Star Trek: TOS, the episode Mirror, Mirror introduced us to an alternate universe featuring an Earth dominated empire. Star Trek ‘the Franchise’ has managed to pull that same feat off in the real world.
Jane Frank takes us through the stages of mourning for book covers.
Ricardo introduces us to some of the latest spanish language releases.
A review of the play The Uncanny Valley, in which a lonely human forms an attachment to a robot named Pheobe
James Weber can’t stop thinking about HER. Who says the singularity can’t be beautiful?
an interview with the unstoppable game designer, author and illustrator – Gary Chalk.
Death and dreaming. Ivan Prado Sejas explores the works of Rolando Albornoz
What’s it like to Beta test a game? Travis takes a few minutes away from the controls to fill us in.
A look at counterfactuals and alternate histories, through a counter-argument to British historian Richard J. Evans.
Now there are classic science fiction stories, and then there are classic science fiction stories used by educators to introduce young impressionable readers and writers to the age old argument of science and religion. The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke is THAT kind of story.
It has long been a fascination that the shonen manga industry has allowed male characters who are not typically masculine to be interesting, complex, and relatable characters, as well as allowing women to take on the roles of young men.
Shadows of a Fading World is the first anthology from Long Count Press. For a first anthology, it’s pretty impressive. It contains seven stories of varying length, mostly novelette/novella, set in the last days of the world.
An examination of the second story collected in The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame – Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon
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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