Contributors
DAVID A. HARDY Needs little introduction here, following an issue in which his recently re-released novel – Aurora – and his artwork (dating from 1952 until the present) are presented. David A. Hardy is the […]
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“I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part I: Who Reads SF Anyway? Practically No One.
“I Like Science Fiction, It’s Got Like Giant Robots and Stuff, Right?” Science Fiction’s Self-Esteem Problem Part I: Who Reads SF Anyway? Practically No One. Science Fiction has a self-esteem problem. Almost from its beginnings, […]
Attention Grabber
The single most important step for a reader is the initial act of choosing what to read. After that, everything else is just a formality of literary cultivation. You read, you absorb and you grow. But it’s that first step that determines who you are as a reader. So, what books grab “your” attention?
Retrospective: David A. Hardy – The King of Space Art
In case the cover of this month’s issue looks familiar it is because it is a slight re-working of a cover that David A. Hardy – the subject of this present art retrospective – prepared […]
I Was A Teenaged Bibliophile
For years, pierre’s life was ordered around comics etc. First he couldn’t live without the Amazing Spider man and the FF, Tom Swift, Tarzan, then it was the most obscure Cthuluh Mythos story, and later […]
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS -Fiction- Aurora (excerpt) by David A. Hardy -Non-Fiction- Editorial: Things To Come by Steve Davidson The Edgar Rice Burroughs Movie I’d Like To See by John M. Whalen I Was A Teenaged Bibliophile by […]
AURORA (excerpt) By David A. Hardy
Who was the mysterious stranger who helped injured Londoners during the Blitz– and then vanished? Who was the beautiful blonde girl who blazed like a supernova on the 1970s psychedelic rock scene for a few […]
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Movie I’d Like To See
by John M. Whalen When I was a kid growing up in Philadelphia, my Uncle George, who liked to read and played stride piano by ear, came over to the house one day and gave […]
Editorial: Things To Come
by Steve Davidson Things To Come. An absolutely fantastic film. Produced by Michael Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies and written by H. G. Wells, based on his own works. I don’t think that any […]
Of Shadows and Serpent – The First Sword & Sorcery Tale
When people think of 1929 they usually recall the Great Depression and “Black Tuesday” (October 29th). I prefer to think of it as the year Sword & Sorcery was born. For S&S, like its greatest […]
Contributors
There have been many people who have expressed their support, enthusiasm, excitement and best wishes for the return of Amazing Stories. To all who have done so, my deepest and most heartfelt thank you. […]
Thoughts On Amazing Stories Part 3: A Conversation With Patrick L. Price
Patrick L. Price edited Amazing Stories from September, 1986 until March, 1991, following a stint as Managing Editor while working under George Scithers (who would later go on to edit Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine). At […]
Thoughts On Amazing Stories Part 2: Robert Silverberg
The following essay was originally written for Amazing Stories during its Wizards of the Coast phase and while under the editorship of Kim Mohan in November 1998 and was published in the magazine in 1999. It is […]
Thoughts On Amazing Stories, Part 1: Barry N. Malzberg
The following two essays originally appeared in Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties by Barry N. Malzberg (Doubleday, 1982). Kindle Edition and is reprinted here by permission of the author. I Could Have Been A […]
Who Do I Review For?
by Daniel M. Kimmel (This essay was originally published on the author’s blog – Behind the Scenes – on GoodReads, May 6, 2012 and is reprinted here by permission of the author.) My friend MaryAnn Johanson is […]
Will Little Note, Nor Long Remember by Jack Clemons
The entropy lines of the time-transporter field bowed outward above the receiving platform, distorting the small room into a grotesque, carnival-mirror reflection of itself. The field lines collapsed, sending miniature dust devils dancing over the […]
Chain Mail 13: Book View cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 12: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 11: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 10: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 9: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 8: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 7: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 6: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 5: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 4: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 3: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail 2: Book View Cafe
Chain Mail is a telephone tag by email round-robin interview session with authors from the Book View Cafe writers collective. Images are links, connecting to biographical information about an author or more information on their […]
Chain Mail: A Discussion with Members of Book View Cafe
An Introduction to Chain Mail When Sue Lange (BVC) and I put our heads together to try and come up with something interesting, timely, fun AND do-able, we ultimately ended up with something interesting, timely, […]
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Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
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