The FAAn Awards
Are you a Fan? Of course you are, you’re here! Why not demonstrate your fannishness and take a crack at nominating for the annual Fan Activity Awards? It’s FREE and its FUN! The Fan Activity […]
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Calling All Space Cadets!
Ever wanted to travel to outer space? Now’s your chance… for real. Lynx Apollo antiperspirant have launched a competition to win a trip flying 103km up into space. How do you do it? First, potential […]
Ten Totally Illogical Science Fiction Premises
Over on my own blog I wrote about eight science fiction tropes of convenience, mainly about unlikely or impossible technology or assumptions that are made not because they make sense, but because they’re convenient for […]
From the In Box
eNewsletter – February 21st 2013 In This Issue Quick Links Artists’ Alley Art Show Dealers’ Room Guest of Honor Banquet Lobby/Club Tables Outreach NWC36 Guests of Honor Volunteering DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport Deadlines February […]
Jirel of Joiry: Sword & Sorcery’s First Lady
Circumstance plays a part in history. It was inevitable that a woman would eventually try her hand at Sword & Sorcery. It’s our good fortune that C. L. Moore was writing for Weird Tales in […]
Various and Sundry Science Fiction Poetry
Welcome back! I have a bit of a hodge-podge for you today. The interview with Bruce Boston has been postponed for two weeks – life got in the way for both me and Bruce. But […]
Women in Armour vs. Chicks in Chain-mail
One of the more common tropes of fantasy illustration is depictions of women in armor, but this is not necessarily unique to fantasy illustration. Armored women have been depicted in art throughout the centuries. Most […]
A DOCTOR FOR THE ENTERPRISE: New Art, New Pages
Troy Boyle reports that he’s been sending completed pages to the inkers, letterers,colorers and who knows who else at a breakneck pace! We’re closing in on sending this book to the printers and may even […]
Crossroads: Science Fiction Romance – A Niche Before Its Time?
Last week, we talked about paranormal romance and the ways in which it uses longstanding cultural archetypes (vampires, werewolves, etc.) to explore power, sexuality, and possibly even deeper existential themes. But speculative fiction is composed […]
The Chocolate Teapots of the 21st Century
Looking back at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear disaster of 3/11/2011, I ask more questions about Japanese robotics. Baudrillard and M. John Harrison are roped in to help. Also, we bought a Roomba.
Cloud Atlas Shrugged – or let the Skyfall
On Monday Skyfall was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK. Tomorrow Cloud Atlas will open in UK cinemas. Two films, poles apart. Skyfall, the 23th entry in probably the world’s longest running and […]
Teaching the Kids Lessons through SFF
One of the great things about watching SFF with the kids is that they will actually come out and ask the questions good SFF tries to stimulate within us. Adults tend to just keep those […]
Amazing News, Thursday, February 21, 2013
The annual Nebula Award Nominees have been announced by SFWA: Novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13) Ironskin, Tina Connolly (Tor) The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) The […]
From the In Box
New KGB reading Haikasoru Releases Audio Book of All You Need Is Kill; announces movie of same Clarion West NYRSF Reading Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present: Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright and […]
…And We’re Not Spending Billions to Defend Ourselves?
Yesterday the Huffington Post published a map prepared by Javier de la Torre from CartoDB that illustrated every single known meteorite impact on the Earth since the year 2300 BC (4,313 years of meteorite impacts). […]
More From the In Box
From Randy Dotinga via Facebook: Hello fellow sci-fi fans! If you’re a current or aspiring sci-fi writer, listen up. The annual writers conference of the ASJA, North America’s leading association of freelance writers and non-fiction […]
Will Wonder Woman Finally Make Her TV Comeback?
Wonder Woman is one of the shows I can’t wait to see on TV. The original TV show was pre-me (I’m a child of the 80s) but I do recall it being on TV. I […]
Characters: Ned Henry from To Say Nothing of the Dog
I’ve just finished reading To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. I’m a fan. There are far too few comedies within SF/F, and those that exist still find a way to take themselves […]
Mouldy Old History
For a number of years I wrote The Crotchety Old Fan blog. One of my favorite posts to write was finding new and interesting ways to bring the older works to the attention of new […]
Top Ten RPG Game Systems of All Time
Pull the blinds and turn off the phone, it’s time to head to the Game Room and lock in on some hardcore meta-gaming action. In the Game Room we will explore the world of gaming […]
Ray Gun Rewind – Invoking Inigo
Hi, I’m Johne (John with a silent SEO’e’) and I’m an Overlord. <lengthy pause> Ahem – I can see you haven’t prostrated yourself yet. Perhaps you don’t yet understand. It is true I no longer […]
Sequential Wednesdays #1 – Rockwell’s Masked Heroes
Let’s get one thing straight: I go weak at the knees because of some colored pigment on a stretched cloth surface – often and regularly. Somewhere I know my parents got it right […]
From the In Box
Haffner Press (they of the excellent tomes and complete collections) sent along their monthly update, in which we are informed – Just over a month in release, THE COMPLETE JOHN THUNSTONE by Manly Wade Wellman […]
Cory Doctorow Reading & Signing at Gibson’s Bookstore, Concord NH
Amazing Stories in the person of publisher Steve Davidson will be attending this Sunday’s appearance of Cory Doctorow at Concord New Hampshire’s independent bookstore – Gibsons. Permission was obtained to videotape the event. An edited […]
From the IN Box
Jim Freund’s Facebook page offered the following: The New York Review of Science Fiction presents: Ken Liu Robin Wasserman Guest Hosts: Douglas Cohen & John Joseph Adams Wednesday, March 6th — Doors open 6:30 PM […]
Genres Get Unstuck, or My New Favorite Literary Magazine
Prior to the 1991 introduction of SoundScan, record stores self-reported what was moving off their shelves. That system, open to bias and shaky math, created rigid separation in sales charts that ensured you didn’t find […]
Epic Fantasy Analysis Feb 17, 2013
This is the third in the series and is from data as of 2/17/2013. I’m revising the format that I provide this data, now I’m using table which should make things a bit more clear. […]
Review: The Wizard of OZ: A Steampunk Adventure by S.D. Stuart
We interrupt your regularly scheduled coverage on SF detectives to bring you this… As a kid, I used to love watching the 1939 film Wizard of Oz. My parents had recorded it on VHS so […]
Walking unto Death
I’ve never read The Walking Dead but I love the TV show and watch it religiously every Monday morning. Series one enthralled me because of the likeable characters who unfailingly seemed to die just as […]
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