GRAG’S LAST ESCAPE By Gary Phillips from The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection (978-1-953103-36-9, October 10, 2023; 336 Pages, $17, Three Rooms Press) Gary Phillips has been a community activist, labor organizer […]
Be the change you want to see in the world. For author CJ Leede, that means creating a villainous, monstrous female character because she didn’t see enough of them in the world. Dive into her […]
Pushcart Prize-nominee Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas large-animal vet. She graduated from Tulane University, then earned an MFA and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her […]
Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place. Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in […]
Dr. Vyvyan Evans is a native of Chester, England. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and is a Professor of Linguistics. He has published numerous acclaimed popular science and technical books […]
1 A vee of Canada geese passed across the slot of sky that ran east to west between two nine-storey walls. It was late August, and they were heading south, early migrators, the machine of […]
PART 1: STROLLING PAST THE CUTLINE OUTSIDE NEW BERLIN COLONY, MARS 18th MARCH 1956 08:58 MST (MARS STANDARD TIME) DAY 727 OF THE OCCUPATION 23 DAYS UNTIL THE FIRST TERRAN – MARTIAN WAR […]
Gospel is a road trip story, a buddy novel. Easy Rider meets the Gospels. Part picaresque, part polemic. In a series of near-misadventures unfolding across the ancient Levant, the Devil, Jesus and his thirteen disciples […]
Additional Reading The real state of affairs in 1629 Don’t worry, this is a fantasy novel and I have no intention of turning it into anything else. However, to make my readers understand the context better, I have decided to supply a […]
Chapter One: Gordon They were supposed to leave for the ceremony together, but he couldn’t wait any longer. Gordon hurried down the street, alone, and distracted himself with the familiar topics of schematics, power modules, […]
The stories in this book are set in the coming days of the Golden Centuries of Astronomy, so why does it begin with THE TRANSFORMATION CRISIS, written as a speech I wrote for a futurology […]
A hundred years in the future, ReInception is used to modify the brain and eliminate unwanted behaviors- everything from overeating to the worst criminal impulses. Unmodified 20-year-old Leandrea Justus feels ordinary compared to her perfect […]
A DIAMOND DREAM FINAL BOOK OF THE JUBILEE CYCLE ELI K. P. WILLIAM 1 The Tokyo Canal All was fire, a great conflagration roaring from the charcoal of a starless cosmos. Billowing and […]
We Can All Be Grignr; or: How to Appreciate Very Bad Writing by Michael A. Ventrella So it’s 1970. If you’re a fan of high fantasy, you’ve read The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. […]
A good guide for those who want to understand more about definitions and history of the genre
the third book in the acclaimed John Nyquist series by Jeff Noon
New England is locked down, a strict curfew the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus.
On the creation of fictional holidays – with an excerpt
An excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s latest – Starsight
With a monster lurking in the forest, a wandering mage mysteriously appearing, and more secrets awakening to unravel the truths of their world, Tas and Girik must make grave decisions.
An excerpt from a gay paranormal romance novel
Somtow Sucharitkul, world-reknowned conductor and composer, returns to the SF world with an excerpt from his highly regarded Inquestor series.
A short excerpt from the novel Aniquila las estrellas por mí by Andrés Felipe Escovar
Tanya reviews us – Amazing Stories – from blog to magazine to future plans.
An excerpt from Cristian Londoño Proaño’s The Instinct of Light series
Video from the latest TerBi conference, two new anthologies and the Ansible feminist SF festival
From the world of Folklore: The Affliction, we bring you an excerpt from the tale of Black Alith
Two new speculative fiction books have been released in Spanish: La canción de Bêlit, an exploration of a lost period in the history of Robert E, Howard’s Conan the Barbarian; and Transcrepuscular, which considers a possible evolutionary symbiosis between humanity and nature, exposing our ethnocenrtic view of the world.
Some folks are still bitching that the Eternal Mardi Gras is a Disney version, what with the traditional Krewes’ parading limited to the traditional lead-up to Fat Tues- day while the big budget corporate […]
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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