Pixels and Panels #2: Online Comics
Here are two web comics that feature world-building on a grand scale.
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Finding a Path to the Stars at the 2013 Campbell Conference
Friday, June 14, 2013, arrived without much fanfare. My yard gnomes were chained and securely staked in my garden, while the lazy, overweight alligators lounged at the edge of the moat with their mouths open, […]
True Blood is Back With a Bite
True Blood has finally returned to TV and boy has it come back with a bang. It’s already two episodes in and so much has happened already. Bill is not himself, whatever his is (not […]
Female Heroes in Literature
For my birthday last year, I went to the cinema to watch the popular—and somewhat controversial—Hunger Games. Well, controversial among some critics and followers of critics, anyway. I came across a particularly juicy tidbit by […]
Book Review: The Man-Kzin Wars – 25th Anniversary Edition – Created by Larry Niven
The Man-Kzin Wars – 25th Anniversary Edition – Created by Larry Niven Baen Books – 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1451639001 (Trade paperback) This is a reissue of the very first volume in the Man-Kzin Wars series created […]
Richard Matheson Filmography
Richard Matheson captured my imagination with his first story (Born of Man and Woman – SF Hall of Fame Volume 1) and never stopped entertaining and intriguing me; when I learned that some of my […]
If You’re Fond of Sea Fights and Demon Lairs: A Review of Waters of Darkness by David C. Smith and Joe Bonadonna
Like many older science fiction and fantasy readers, I was introduced to my favorite genres by pulp fiction. I missed the pulp magazine era, which died in the late 1950s; but I was around during […]
Richard Matheson, 1926-2013
There are some writers whose work is known and enjoyed by millions of people who have never heard their name. Or even if they have heard their name, haven’t read their work, or associate their name […]
Review: The Shining Girls, by Lauren Beukes
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Mulholland Books 2013 The premise of The Shining Girls sold me before I’d read a sentence from it or knew who Lauren Beukes was: a serial killer with the […]
Amicus Productions
For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at the current state of the horror industry. Let’s now turn back the clock, to find some classic screams: Amicus Productions was a small-budget film production company, […]
Lawyers in SPACE!
Is it just me or do you not see many lawyers in SF? I mean not everyone can be a smuggler or a starship captain. Someone has to cut the red tape. In fact the […]
What Dreams May Come: Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson passed away Sunday June 23 at age 87. He is probably the last of the giants who once walked the land. Rod Serling was one, Paddy Chayefsky was one, Stirling Silliphant was one. And […]
The Flooding of High River
I stood at the new wharf, formerly a street that I’d walked down over a hundred times, waiting for my wife, Tamara. A raging river now stood between us, and there was no word from […]
Why I Do What I Do
I have been asked several times in the last week alone about indie publishing. Before I talk about what I’m doing, and why, let me point out that I am relatively new to this. Vulcan’s […]
Ciencia ficción desde el extremo occidente
Ciencia ficción desde el extremo occidente En el año 2002, se publicó en el Perú un volumen que recopilaba una serie de cuentos fantásticos escritos por Rodolfo Hinostroza. Tuvo a bien publicarlos bajo el título […]
Those Early Drafts
When is a story fit to be read? It depends on who’s reading it. Your family may seem genetically programmed to love every word you write. A potential publisher, not so much. By the time […]
Review: Hauntings, edited by Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow anthologies are dependable reads, especially when it comes to delivering a wide selection of high quality of fiction. This holds true with Hauntings, Datlow’s new reprint anthology of ghost stories–all of which were originally […]
Demons of the Night: Early Stories by Seabury Quinn
Demons of the Night Seabury Quinn Gene Christie, ed. Black Dog Books Tpb $19.95 182 p. Ebook During the heyday of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, there were four authors whose work was […]
Hidden Treasures: Review of a Manga Reference Book
Used bookstores are veritable treasure troves, as I’m sure many Amazing Stories readers will agree. Digging through the shelves and piles of every type of book imaginable is a bibliophile’s dream especially when it doesn’t […]
Excerpt: SORCERER: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth’s Alchemist by Geoffrey James
SORCERER: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth’s Alchemist SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, the novel describes an early scientist’s descent into mysticism and madness. The year is 1584. John Dee, the greatest scholar of his […]
TIME MACHINE: Past Popular Posts
Publishing: Let’s stop comparing apples and oranges IAAA Gallery: Pat Rawlings – Wide Open for Space A Commissioning Editor Speaks: David Moore of Abaddon Books The Lasting Impact of Miyazaki’s Princess NUEVOS BLOGGERS EN ESPAÑOL […]
Review: World War Z
World War Z should really be called ‘The Movie About Globetrotting Around a Zombie-Infested Planet’ as it has little to do with the beloved Max Brooks novel. In fact, the best thing about the matinee […]
Amazing News Weekly – 6/23
NEW CONTEST! WIN A COPY OF HAUNTINGS, edited by ELLEN DATLOW Amazing Stories is giving away one copy of Hauntings, edited by Ellen Datlow via a random drawing on July 1, 2013. All you have to do to […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 22 in series)
But, But, But…You Bought My Last Story: What Your First Sale Really Means Welcome back to my series on marketing and selling short fiction. I’ve written these posts in a very specific sequence, with each […]
Anniversary by Isaac Asimov
The short story Anniversary by Isaac Asimov is an example of life imitating art and an imaginative author’s ability to predict some of the technical advancements and legal issues of over fifty years in the future.
Shaun of the Dead
Brad Pitt’s $200 million dollar zombie extravaganza World War Z just opened, and despite the reported problems producer Pitt had getting the film made, including extensive rewrites and shooting of several additional scenes after test screenings, the […]
Marketing 101: Start with the Right Attitude
Marketing. Is there any other word that instills more fear in a writer? I don’t think so. When authors talk about marketing, here are the things commonly mentioned: I’m an introvert; I don’t want to […]
The Artful Collector: Vulgaris Triumphus? on Judging (SFWA) Magazines by Their Cover
Judge books by their cover? Everyone does it. That’s why – and despite the mis-marketing, agenting “horror stories” (both artist and author) and egregious lack of talent (cover-wise) – books and yes, magazines, still get […]
Dirk Gently Revisited
Back in 1978, a young comedy sketch writer sent a script to the BBC’s flagship SF show, Doctor Who. Far from setting hearts fluttering with excitement, its demands for special effects such as time sinks, […]
NUEVOS BLOGGERS EN ESPAÑOL EN AMAZING STORIES
Ni bien tuve tiempo de hacerme un cronograma de post en Amazing Stories, mis pequeños artículos hablando de las novedades de las que me enteraba gracias a diversos amigos dieron fruto: Los post en español […]
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