Review: GRABBERS (2012)
There’s nothing better than a good monster movie. The problem is, most monster movies these days suck. Some intentionally (Sharktopus, I’m looking at you). The Syfy Channel seems to specialize in these CGI stinkers that […]
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How Science Fiction Fans Can Save America
Will you stand for something? Or settle for anything?
The Best of Comic-Con 2013
Ok, before I start, this is my personal preference, so you may or may not agree with these, but here are my personal favourite highlights of Comic-Con 2013. I’ve been enjoying Comic-Con from the comfort […]
Three Doc Savage Movies
Rumor has it that Shane Black is writing a script for a Doc Savage movie that may come out in 2015. It has a good chance of introducing the greatest of pulp action heroes to […]
SOFACON THIS WEEKEND
Sofacon, StarshipSofa’s first annual international online convention will take place this Sunday. Amazing Stories will be making an appearance when Amazing’s publisher, Steve Davidson, is joined by blogger and author Chris Gerwel to discuss Fandom’s […]
Noticias literatura y cine 24-7
Ya disponible el nº 6 del fanzine de la TerBi Ya está disponible el número 6 del fanzine de la TerBi. Es un especial, de 258 páginas, dedicado al III Certamen TerBi de Relato Temático, […]
So, How Are We Doing?
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been participating on Amazing Stories. Each and every one of you – bloggers, readers, commenters, artists, fans and behind the scenes folks have contributed […]
Who Is Your Audience, and Why Should You Care?
The artistic process, whether painting or prose, is admittedly the child of self-expression. The long-standing image of the cloistered artist in her studio — hunched over her writing desk or standing before her canvas to […]
The Art of Au Contraire! 2013
A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure to attend Au Contraire!, the New Zealand national Science Fiction, Fantasy and Geekery convention here in Wellington. It was the second Au Contraire! I attended: three […]
When Our Heroes are Villains
Don’t do this; don’t do that: a mantra of the adult world. Growing up, things were so simple: the good guys do good; the bad guys do bad. And somewhere, sometime, somebody drew the line […]
Review: Superman: Unbound
The DC Universe Animated Original Movies have, for the better part, been pretty successful, due primarily to their high levels of enjoyment and excellence. However I can’t find it within me to say the same […]
Zachary Clemente Is Exhausted After SDCC
Zachary Clemente, author of Sequential Wednesdays (a feature that normally appears here on … Wednesdays) will be skipping today’s entry due to SDCC-Attendance-Syndrome, otherwise known as utter exhaustion due to experiencing a prolonged state of […]
Review: Nine Horrors and a Dream by Joseph Payne Brennan
Nine Horrors and a Dream By Joseph Payne Brennan Ballantine Books. 1962. $0.35 Contents: 1 • Slime • (1953) • novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan 33 • Levitation • (1958) • short story by Joseph […]
Clemente Palma, el Hugo Gernsback peruano
Si hay un autor injustamente maltratado en el Perú es Clemente Palma (1872-1946). Dos hechos de su prolífica carrera intelectual fueron escogidos por sus enemigos para desacreditarlo ante las generaciones posteriores. Uno de ellos, un […]
Review: The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft
I am still slogging my way through the complete works of HP Lovecraft. My Kindle tells me I am 28% done, of course that doesn’t count all of the stories I already have read, but […]
Interview with Science Fiction Legend Ben Bova
Today we are joined by science fiction legend Dr. Ben Bova. Ben has served as an editor of both Analog Science Fact & Fiction and Omni magazines. He has written over 120 books of fiction […]
Review: Countdown City, by Ben H. Winters
Countdown City By Ben H. Winters Quirk Books 2013 The world is still going to end. That’s the reality facing former Concord, NH, police detective Hank Palace as Countdown City, the second book in Ben […]
TIME MACHINE: Past Popular Posts
We experienced technical difficulties with the time machine yesterday; it kept on taking us back to exactly 3 seconds before we were planning on traveling back to gather up the week’s posts – an endless, […]
Rediscover the Fires of Nuala
Fires of Nuala Cat Kimbriel Book View Café epub and mobi, $4.99 One of the great things about the ebook revolution is that many authors are making their backlists available. As a result, a number […]
It Takes a Community
Writing is a lonely job. I wish I was one of those writers who can sit in a busy coffee shop and scribble away with dozens of conversation snatches floating by, but I’m too easily […]
Rosa Montero – Autora de “Lagrimas en la Lluvia”
Rosa Montero – Escritora y periodista española – Autora de “Lagrimas en la Lluvia” y “La Ridícula idea de no volver a verte” M.C.Carper para Amazing Stories Magazine: Hola ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus […]
The Marinated Writer
I know what you are thinking, and no, that’s not what I was marinating in. We did have a beer with dinner last night, and that’s as much as I’ve drunk in a week, so […]
Les articles les plus populaires : fin juin
Littérature: Un article de Michael Sullivan vous expliquera avec de nombreux chiffres à l’appuis que les bénéfices des éditeurs ont augmenté au détriment du revenu des auteurs. Les contrats concernant le livre électroniques sont en […]
Introduction to SFF – 2 – Pulp
I learned a lot about pulp magazines from the early Asimov. To be precise, from The Early Asimov. I’d encountered a few samples of pulp a little earlier, through the mysterious Ms X, as detailed […]
Anime Neverland
One of the challenges of liking anime is having to sometimes admit that you prefer cartoons to more “grown up” forms of entertainment. And sometimes you can defend yourself with a really adult title like […]
Absolute Zero – Cool Websites, Very Cool
Today’s round-up of very cool websites has a theme: online resources created by fans and pros for the fannish community (and those few hardy explorers of the infinite who may wander in from time to […]
AMAZING News 7/21/2013
CAUSES 100 Great SF Stories by Women Don’t Travel to Texas If You Do Go to Texas, Stand With Their Women Scalzi on OSC Movie Boycott (Read through to the comments) CRAFT Food in Science […]
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction (Excerpt)
Edited by Hannah Strom-Martin & Erin Underwood Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction includes 33 original short stories and poems that spark the imagination, twist the heart, and make us yearn for the possibilities […]
Marketing 101: Walk Before You Run
I think one of the biggest mistakes that authors make with regards to marketing is spending huge amounts of time that will produce very few results. This is usually a byproduct of being excited that […]
About Author
Michael J. Sullivan is a speculative fiction writer who has written twenty-five novels and released nine. Eight of his fantasy books (The Riyria Revelations, and The Riyria Chronicles), were published by Hachette Book Group’s Orbit imprint. Hollow World, a science-fiction thriller was released by Tachyon Publications. The first four books of his new series, The First Empire, has sold to Random House’s Del Rey imprint, and the first book is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2016. He can be found on twitter, through his blog www.riyria.com, and on his facebook page and his publisher’s page for the series.
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