Trials and Tribulations of the Publishing Game
As I put the finishing touches and edits on my latest novel, I am charged with the task of also creating the cover art. I consider myself to be a good photographer but for some […]
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Hey, Who Shot First? Again!
A fan’s examination of the evolution of Star Wars from book to film to book to re-releases.
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 15 in series)
Oh God, They Hate Me: Dealing with rejections Welcome back to my weekly series on marketing and selling short fiction. These posts are written in a very specific sequence, with each entry building on earlier […]
Marketing is Destroying the Science Fiction Genre
The other day I was listening to NPR as they ran a piece on the TOTALLY NEW! NOT SCIENCE FICTION! genre of Cli Fi or Climate (change) Fiction. A year or so ago I was […]
IT’S (NOT) ROCKET SCIENCE: The International Space Station
I was watching the TV commercial featuring the Space Shuttle Endeavor the other night – you know, the one where a truck tows the Shuttle through the streets of Los Angeles to its permanent exhibit […]
On Fatherhood
When I was around six or seven, I discovered my father’s old comic books. He’s an archivist and his closet reflects this–it is a meticulously organized trove of his interests, packed away in folders, binders […]
Eric Brown Interview
Eric Brown is the author of over forty books including Helix and Kethani. His latest novel, The Serene Invasion features an eerie conquest of earth that sweeps away the old order without a drop of […]
ASM Blog Horde Interview with Gary Dalkin
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 […]
Spanish Science Fiction On the Web.
Some Spanish language web-pages and even e-zines are trying to expand their public offering information in English. There are not many yet, but I can imagine others will follow soon. A web-page is published by […]
Four Color Heroes! or: Superman at 75!
So Superman is 75 years old. That’s astounding. What’s even more astounding is how good he looks, given that he is now a senior citizen. Special cases like Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come notwithstanding, it seems […]
REVISTAS VIRTUALES Y REALES DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN EN ESPAÑOL
¿Es necesario tener un blog en español en Amazing Stories? Para comenzar: ¿Se hace ciencia ficción en español? Se preguntarán muchos. La respuesta es simple, sí que se hace y mucha. Claro, la cosa es […]
How We Will Tell Stories in the Future
In the early 1400s, when Lady Vivianne, the Baroness Von Grunwald (hero of my latest book, The Last Summoner) lived, one of the largest libraries in Europe was at the University of Cambridge; it held […]
JACK VANCE: VISIONS OF A DYING EARTH
After the last few S&S works of the early 1940s, such as “Dragon Moon” by Henry Kuttner and the short-lived Unknown, Sword & Sorcery lost steam. With Robert E. Howard dead for five or more […]
Ten Science Fiction Movies that are Really Fantasy
Without belaboring the concept, let’s do it. 1. Star Wars. The force is magic, as are most other elements. Just because something has robots, spaceships, ray guns doesn’t make it science fiction. 2. Inception. Entering […]
From the In Box 4/25/2013
Clarion West Receives $10,000 NEA Art Works Grant Seattle,WA—The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that Clarion West will receive a $10,000 Art Works grant to support its six week summer workshop and its […]
Crossroads: Satire and the Fantastic
NOTE: This week’s essay is actually an adapted form of an essay from December 18, 2012 that was originally published at The King of Elfland’s 2nd Cousin. Some changes, however, have been made from the […]
Digging The Crates Vol. II
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Digging The Crates, where we strive to find the best, most brilliant, most deranged and inspired that the horror genre has to offer. It’s been a busy couple […]
DIY – American Mary and Excision
Whether you go to the cinema to see an 80 minute film which took a million dollars to make, or a film which runs over three hours and cost the equivalent of the GDP of […]
REVIEW: Dead Island- Riptide
(Review copy played on the Xbox 360 console, mileage may vary) There was one game that came out in 2012 that I played far more than any other. FAR more. Dead Island. And now it […]
Zero-Magic Fantasy
Zero-magic fantasy is a growing subgenre. But can it ever rise above the level of thought experiment? And what are the tradeoffs?
Sequential Wednesdays #10 – Bos-Con: The City-Wide Adventure of Levity
The past week endured by the city and residents of Boston has been extraordinary and bizarre, affecting pretty much everyone in the vicinity. Thanks, and often less than thanks, to media outlets, social networking, and […]
Here Comes the Lull
It’s seriously getting close to the end of the 2012/2013 season. Next week May will be here and with it comes a bunch of season finales and the odd cancelation. It’s the time when I […]
The Greatest Fantasy Author of All Time
This week some in the world are celebrating the birth/death of the Bard of Avon also known as William Shakespeare. Shakespeare as you might have heard was a well-known English playwright and poet. Curiously enough […]
American Tolkien
There is a kind of writer whose name evokes not just the titles of their best-known novels or the characters in them, but a certain way of experiencing the world. If one hears the name […]
Oblivion: Yet Another Heady, Action-Fueled Science Fiction Epic Falls Short of Its Ambitions
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQcgiZwLxVM&w=570&h=321] Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion (2013) is a love letter to every science fiction film you’ve already seen, and a pretty beautiful one, at that, but it nearly collapses under the weight of its own […]
The (Ongoing) Death and Transfiguration of Science Fiction Publishing
Lazy Literary Agents in Self-Publishing Money Grab Via Argo Navis Most of you who are reading these blogs here at Amazing Stories are probably well aware that publishing is changing. It has perhaps always been […]
The Rising Tide of Alien Languages
Be warned, this post contains spoilers for this week’s Game of Thrones episode “And Now His Watch is Ended”. This morning I sat and watched Daenerys Stormborn finally grow up as she unleashed hell upon […]
Steampunk: An Overview of an Up and Coming Genre
Strap on your goggles, fire up the boiler and let’s lift off toward adventure. Its time to tackle the wonderful world of steampunk! So what is steampunk exactly? Surprisingly it is difficult to describe, even […]
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