Characters: Clare of Claymore
Claymore is one of the more interesting anime I’ve seen in a while. It’s a pretty standard story. Monsters, known as yoma, feed on humans, and the only ones who can defeat them are swords […]
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4 modern and completed SF series you shouldn’t miss – Part I
I am a SF addict. There, I said it. I’m not sure when it began because I remember turning my nose up when my parents were watching Star Trek and saying it was boring. BORING! […]
Anonymous Calls for Internet Blackout to Protest CISPA
A branch of Anonymous called for an internet blackout (voluntary downtime) to bring attention to the CISPA law that recently passed a House vote. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act effectively nullifies privacy contracts […]
The Young Animators’ Project, and What We Can Hope For
It has recently been brought to my attention that every year, the Japanese government pays a large sum of money to a handful of animation studios so that those studios will each produce a half-hour […]
Crowdfunding Fiction River: An Interview with Kristine Kathryn Rusch
My post on crowdfunding a few weeks back generated some really great discussion and seemed to tap into something of interest to a great many people. This topic, like the rest of publishing these days, […]
Covering the Topic
The biggest challenge to self-publishing, I found, was creating covers for my stories. Using the native Mac word processor Pages, formatting stories for epub version is a one-click process. Even doc files are easy to […]
An Interview with Author Astra Crompton
Writing a novel is a huge amount of work. A giant commitment and accomplishment that shouldn’t go to waste – especially if it’s good stuff. But the lineups at the doors of the traditional publishing […]
Book Review: The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Teleportation Accident – Ned Beauman Bloomsbury USA 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1620400227 (Hardcover) I buy books, especially novels, based on whether or not the story might interest me. This includes anthologies or collections of short stories […]
Oh How the Times Have Changed
I spend a lot of time on author forums trying to Keep up with changes that are going on in publishing industry Do what I can to tell other writers what I have learned It’s […]
The Artful Collector: On Holding Dual Citizenship (Inside and Outside the SF Community)
The world is changing, but some things stay the same. And are perfect just the way they are. The sky, my two little puppy dogs, and many symphonic works are like that. Whether SF/F conventions […]
Anime Roundup 4/21/2013: Fee Fi, Ho Hum
More international streaming sites have announced their spring simulcasts, and I’m afraid it looks like the entire world will get to see a couple of high school romantic comedies, but most of the good sf […]
Like Tears in Rain
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hYs1jBy8Y&w=570&h=321] You can almost smell the rain, feel it hammer the leather of your trenchcoat. Hear the harmonic buzz of blue neon all around you. You can taste the Tsingtao, bubbly and cool on […]
Is SETI Hopeless?
Today’s manhunt in Boston for the alleged Marathon bomber has pretty much buried yesterday’s story that NASA’s Kepler telescope has discovered three exoplanets that contain water and support life. The discovery is interesting, of course, […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 14 in series)
Behind the Curtain: How an editor chooses (or rejects) a story Welcome back to my weekly series on how marketing and selling short fiction. These posts are written in a planned sequence, with each entry […]
Remembering a Ghastly Legend
Lawson Deming gave us the friendly neighborhood vampire Sir Graves Ghastly, the horror movie host who helped many young impressionable fans enjoy old time science fiction and horror.
From the In Box 4/19/13
Mather offers .99 cent deal on Cyberstorm Larry Tucker – Send Letters, Look for Tapes Matthew Mather, author of Cyberstorm, currently the number 1 novel in Amazon’s Techno-Thriller category, is on sale for a limited […]
Cities in Science Fiction
The events in Boston at the beginning of this week were an awful tragedy and, naturally all our hearts go out to the victims. Boston is one of the oldest cities in the US and, […]
ASM Blog Horde Interview with Terence Jackson
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 […]
Alien Parameter Space
I love science fiction stories with aliens. There are some good ones without aliens, but they’d probably be better if they threw in some aliens. OK, maybe not, but I still love aliens. I write […]
“Historias Asombrosas”
… pues sí, otra ventura a la que me lanzo. Como muchos de ustedes sabrán. Amazing Stories fue una de las primeras revistas en dedicarse solo a la ciencia ficción, publicada por primera vez en […]
NORVELL W. PAGE: WAN TENGRI – PRESTER JOHN
While Fritz Leiber was creating a boisterous style of Sword & Sorcery based upon E. R. Eddison and James Branch Cabell, Norvell W. Page wrote two novels that seem on the surface to be closer […]
TWO NEW FEATURES COMING TO AMAZING STORIES and AMAZING STORIES GOES BILINGUAL!
The Experimenter Publishing Company and Amazing Stories are pleased to announce that beginning in May of 2013, two new bi-monthly features will be coming to the pages of Amazing Stories! SPACE ART Space Art – […]
From the In Box 4/18/13
StarShipSofa LiveCast KGB Reading Angry Robot’s Strange Chemistry Signs Sarah Raughley Via Facebook: the accented Tony C reminds us that – Live Online In Video: An Audience with SF legends… Larry Niven – Jerry Pournelle […]
Realistic Fantasy: an Oxymoron
oxymoron (n) a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction fantasy (n) the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things realistic (a) representing things in a way that is […]
The Ergodic* Nature of Games
When I was in college studying creative writing, I fell in love with a lot of writers: Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Lethem, David Mitchell, Michael Chabon, all of the genre-bending literary fiction authors. It was probably […]
Crossroads: The Importance of Parody to the Speculative Fiction Genre
Last week, we talked about how every piece of humorous speculative fiction inevitably gets compared to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But as I outlined, Adams’ comedy of the absurd operates very […]
Pretty Soldiers: Minako Aino
Minako Aino revels in frivolity. She loves pop music and cake, she trades shoujo manga with her friends, she wants to be an idol singer someday. She loves fame and glamour and if she existed […]
The Meteor That Never Fell
Just kidding! Putin didn’t really ride that meteor! But it was an uneasy thing to watch, and it prompted uneasier thoughts about other things that fall, and why I crave stories with endings.
An Unhappy Burtiversary
Ten years ago this past March, I enjoyed the greatest TV moment of my lifetime- the debut of Tremors: the Series, on the Scifi Channel. Two hours of heady, Burt Gummer-fun. Just a few months […]
Why You Want to Go To A Writer’s Convention
A short while ago I attended (and participated as panelist and guest author) at the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto. And I was all jazzed about it! Why?… Well, let me tell you why… If […]
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