In Memoriam 2025
IN MEMORIAM 2025 January Director Jeff Baena (b.1977) died on January 3. Baena wrote and directed the film Life After Beth and also worked on the movie What Lies Beneath. Author Andrew Pyper (b.1968) died […]
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Time Machine: February 8, 2026
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 8, 2026 The Big Idea: Lance Rubin The Big Idea: Justin C. Key Whatever Happened to The SON OF KONG? MOVIE REVIEW – DUST BUNNY Matt’s Reviews: On The Road […]
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 8, 2026
Steve Vertlieb: Celebrating Our Beloved John Williams (Born February 8, 1932) By Steve Vertlieb: After I nearly died a little more than a decade ago during and just after major open-heart surgery, I fulfilled one […]
The Big Idea: Lance Rubin
Many people wish they could return to a specific age in their life and live it all over again. But what if that person didn’t know they were reliving the same year over and over […]
The Big Idea: Justin C. Key
A good beside manner makes all the difference in your medical care. So how polite could a robot doctor or AI nurse be? Justin C. Key makes the argument that human connection in medicine is […]
MOVIE REVIEW – DUST BUNNY
I like quirky movies, especially when they might be genre and they might not; you’re never sure until about halfway through—like Sinners, where it takes a while before you find out it’s a v… er, genre movie (no spoilers here). But there are spoilers (some) in this review. It’s a great movie and one we wouldn’t mind watching again!
Matt’s Reviews: On The Road To Cinnabar – The Complete Works of Edward Bryant Volume One
Publisher : Belanger Books LLC Publication date : August 3, 2025 Language : English Print length : 510 pages ISBN-10 : 3633644946 ISBN-13 : […]
New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for FEB 4
Here’s the weekly post from my author blog on the new releases I found to be of interest in my three favorite romance genres (which are also the ones I write in!), and related areas […]
The Big Idea: A.C. Wise
The big idea behind The Ballad of the Bone Road started out as several small ideas. The names Brix and Bellefeather made their way into my head and struck me as the perfect names for […]
Noticias Literatura 4-2
Fallo de la XXXVII edición del Certamen de Ciencia Ficción Alberto Magno Fallo de la XXXVII edición del Certamen Literario de Ciencia Ficción Alberto Magno Recibidos 181 relatos procedentes de diferentes países, el Jurado ha […]
The Big Idea: Salinee Goldenberg
‘In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists. This determination to have the […]
Just Watch Streaming Takes for February
Key Takeaways: Movies: Oscars titles dominated our US Streaming Charts this week with 7 out of 10 titles nominated for at least one Academy Award, including Bugonia (1), F1 (9), Train Dreams (6), Sinners (5), […]
What Happened to the EAGLE TRANSPORTERS from SPACE 1999?
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After The Fall: Cover reveal for Edward Ashton’s new sci-fi and win a book bundle
We’re big fans of Edward Ashton here at SciFiNow. We called his 2025 novel, Mickey7, “intelligent, heartfelt and very funny’ in our FOUR STAR review, and we said Bong Joon-ho’s movie adaptation of that novel, […]
The ICE Man Goeth by Tom Easton – FREE STORY
The news tells us about the activities of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Fandom tells us about the activities of SCA, Society for Creative Anachronism. What happens when ICE meets SCA? Ah, fireworks… WABI […]
James Sallis 1944-2026
The family of author and editor James Sallis announced via his website on January 27th that he had passed “peacefully with his wife Karyn by his side” that same day. James Sallis began his SF […]
The Big Idea: Miles Cameron
MILES CAMERON:In 2018, I was sitting at a small SFF con in London with Alistair Reynolds, one of my favourite all-time Science Fiction authors, and I confess I was being a bit of a fan […]
Time Machine: February 1, 2026
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 1, 2026 Holiday Special: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! Whatever Happened to the 7th Voyage of Sinbad? SF Site Resurrection: The Desert of Souls, by Howard Andrew Jones MERRY CHRISTMAS […]
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 1, 2026
Never Mind the News – File 770’s Best Feature Articles of 2025 Was the year too heavy, deep, and real? Yes, but it was also rich in creativity, humor, and shared adventures. It’s a gift […]
SF Site Resurrection: The Desert of Souls, by Howard Andrew Jones
Howard Andrew Jones died a year ago, on January 16, 2024. He was only 56 (and could have passed for 36!) He was one of the undersung stars of the modern day sword and sorcery […]
RETRO REVIEW – IN THE ELECTRIC MIST
Since this is an SF/F magazine, it seems odd to be putting a movie based on a mystery book up for review. But this is no ordinary mystery, it’s one that crosses the line into what might be fantasy—or it might not. That’s for you to decide.
Matt’s Reviews: Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publish Date: 2002 Print Published: 1986 Duration: 14 hours 10 minutes Author: Orson Scott Card Read By: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki Audible ASIN: B000079XXN Print ISBN: 978-1250773067 Book 2 of 6 in […]
About Author
Matt Truxaw’s newest book is Monster. This urban fantasy, horror, thriller will keep you turning the pages.
He is also the author of the hard science fiction thrillers: “Plastiphobia/Plastivore” and “Anthrophobia: A Teacher’s Tale”
You can find them all on Amazon in Paperback, Hardback, Kindle and/or free to read with Kindle Unlimited.
When you read any of them, he would really appreciate a review/rating on Amazon or your favorite book seller/book reader site.
More about Matt:
He was born in Orange County California many years ago and he still lives there. He has been reading books for most of those years and writing up book reviews for the last few years. He gets MANY of his books out of the library/Libby so expect a lot of old science fiction classics book reviews and other science related reviews in addition to newer books he comes across.
If you want to be ‘in-the-loop’ on these and other works, you can follow his website( MattTruxaw.com), his author’s page on Amazon or his Facebook page.
For more reviews and articles by Matt here on Amazing Stories (Click here).
Monster: A Novel by Matt Truxaw
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