From the In Box 5/29/13
Fan Letter in Astounding Soul Wars Book Release Sofacon Promo Art (check out the cool poster for Amazing Stories!) Live Press Conference from Planetary Resources TODAY Via SF Signal we are informed that another 1930s […]
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The Battle For The Throne
So I have finally caught up with Game of Thrones. Something I have finally bumped up from my to watch list to watch list. Through the first season I found myself using it as my […]
Their name is Legion (a modest proposal)
The future isn’t what it used to be, for one of DC Comics’ oldest super-teams.
Dan Durda of the IAAA
Dan Durda is a Renaissance Man. Saying that invokes visions of the man as artist – painting, sculpture, close studies of perspective and perhaps human anatomy, but those visions fall far short of the reality […]
Review: Frontier #1: Uno Moralez
Frontier #1: Uno Moralez Publisher: Youth in Decline Pages: 32 Price: US$8 Buy If you have a broad enough media palate, you’ll recognize the buildings blocks of Uno Moralez’s art and comics—but there’s also nothing quite like it. Even […]
My Start as a Writer and My First Published Story
Hi, my name is Matt Mitrovich. I have been an avid reader most of my life and like most book worms I had the desire see my own name in print one day. I wanted […]
Muse Ridden
As I write this, it’s bank holiday in the UK and Memorial Day in the US. The sun is out and – against all the odds – summer is actually here. So what’s a writer […]
On the Muses
Lesley Smith’s post today prompted me to revisit my own experiences with the Muses. It caused me to ask myself this question: What does my Muse look like? In classical (Greek) mythology, there are nine […]
Planetary Resources Opening Space Frontiers to All (Livestream Event)
The following from Planetary Resources Planetary Resources’ team of engineers who have designed, built and operated spacecraft throughout the Solar System, including all of the recent U.S. Mars landers and rovers, are now developing the most […]
Interview with Michael J Sullivan
Hello all, I am back from my hiatus as I moved to Ohio. Now that I am settled, enjoying the weather in the southern part of the state, I will be able to post regularly. […]
In Defense of Digital Book Buying
Stephen King recently stirred up a bit of controversy with his announcement that his next book, Joyland, from Hard Case Crime, will not have an electronic edition. I’m glad he retained his electronic rights and […]
The Trouble With Definitions; or, Not All Anime Fans Watch Hentai
[Author’s Note: The following post discusses hentai, which is a type of animated pornography. No lewd images are present; however, there is a link to an erotic woodblock print. The author asks that readers use […]
No. 17 – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, and Book Burning.
No. 17 – 2013May26 – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, and Book Burning. Ray Bradbury would have you believe that he only wrote a single science fiction story. The rest, he claims, are actually fantasy yarns. […]
Great Science Fiction Artists – Jerome Podwil
What makes science fiction (and fantasy) so enthralling to readers is that not only can their authors tell extraordinary stories, the stories themselves can come packaged with great art. When I was in my teens […]
Pulling Back the Publishing Veil: Setting Expectations
One of the most difficult things to get a handle on is what to expect in the way of income from publishing. The first problem is there is a wide range. Some authors sell a […]
From the In Box: 5/26/13 – Sharing Books with Soldiers
Galleycat (via Huffpost) tells us how we can go about sharing books with soldiers serving overseas. It’s always a good thing, but particularly so on this Memorial Day weekend. Read this article for five different […]
Anime roundup 5/26/2013: In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Hunter x Hunter #80 – The Chimera Ant queen has just collected the brain of a man so misanthropic that he founded an entire country just to give him a base from which to make […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 19 in series)
Sign Here: What to look (and look out) for in short fiction contracts (continued) Welcome back to my on-going series on how to market and sell short fiction. These posts are written in a very […]
You Can’t Beat a Double Ace
The double novels produced by Ace Books were works of art, inside and out. You just can’t beat holding a double Ace in your hand.
The Artful Collector: Is it All in the Image?
At the heart of this debate is a real difference between how some creators of commercial art (i.e, art produced for the purpose of persuasion/marketing) view the kind of art they are commissioned to create, […]
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Godforsaken Place
In 1968, NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Clear Lake City, Texas was a hot and humid place, built three years earlier on a thousand acres of undeveloped cow pasture 25 miles southeast of downtown Houston, in the middle of nowhere.
Jingoism and the Culture of Fear in Star Trek Into Darkness
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cn4A5IZg1k&w=570&h=321] Having seen Star Trek Into Darkness twice now, and having very much enjoyed it, my aim is to avoid spoilers here whenever possible, for the sake of those readers who might intend to […]
Small Star Trek Spoiled Science Spoiler
So like a lot of people, I saw Star Trek Into Darkness last week. I liked the casting, the acting, many of the effects. I had problems with the storyline and a number of plot […]
ASM Blog Horde Interview with Ricky L. Brown
Welcome to the Amazing Stories BLOG HORDE INTERVIEWS! The ASM Blog Horde is a diverse and wonderful species. I have the privilege of talking with all of them, and I get to share those chats with […]
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Recently a documentary had its debut at the Cannes Film Festival called Jodorowsky’s Dune. The documentary by filmmaker Frank Pavich, examines a very early attempt to make a movie based on Frank Herbert’s iconic science […]
The Ghost of Towel Day Yet to Come: A True Story (sort of)
WHOOSH… A vaguely familiar sound woke me and I sat up in bed. “What’s that noise?” I asked. “It’s a deadline,” said a translucent Douglas Adams, who for some reason was sitting in a chair […]
Top post de abril
Una vez al mes Steve se encarga de ver cuáles han sido los post que mayor interés han despertado en Amazing Stories. He aquí un resumen de ellos en español, con el respectivo link por […]
From the In Box 5/24/13
Doctor Who wins a Peabody Award (excellence in television) via File770. Myke Cole will be receiving the Compton Crook Award (best first novel) from the Baltimore Science Fiction Society later on today (BSFS) Several folks […]
The Eyes of Fiction
They say that the eyes are the windows of the soul- we’ve heard that so many times. But when it comes to fiction, this appears to be true. In 2012, I started writing an indie […]
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