I decided to go ahead and finish out October’s anniversaries in one go, as there are very few magazines remaining on the stands on either decennial anniversary. Ten years ago (2013), pretty much tells the […]
An unofficial and unauthorized overview of The X-Files (Parts 1 2 3 4) Cautionary Note If you’re looking for a treatise about the 2016-2018 reboot of The X-Files, which trashed both the human drama and […]
As far as magazines on the news stands goes, nineteen ninety three was not a bad year: Weird Tales managed to get two issue out (not shown because I don’t think the issue from two […]
Toy Review: Exterminate! Exterminate! — A Dalek, Dr. Who By Iain Delaney: Dr Who started in 1963 and ran until 1985. They revived it in 2005 and has been running (more or less) continuously ever since. […]
Amazing Stories started this whole thing in 1926. (I’m ignoring Weird Tales and The Thrill Book because neither was a “science fiction” magazine.) In 1929 Gernsback lost his publishing empire to bankruptcy and later that […]
October 1973 brings with it the 23rd anniversary issue of Galaxy, a sputtering revival of Weird Tales and a suggestion that the new Vertex Science Fiction might be hanging around for a bit.
October of 1963 sees the number of magazines on the news stands still dwindling from their mid-50s high.
Vote for your favorite story from the Third Quarter of 2023! (Free Stories are published every Monday on Amazing Stories.
Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 4 Arriving On October 17 Pyr Books will release The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 2 edited by Paula Guran. It’s the fourth from the current publisher, […]
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine, edited by David G. Hartwell
October 1953 on the news stands. Titles have already begun to fade from the stands as the heyday of genre mags begins to wane./
What might have been on the stands in October, 1943.
The SF/F/H magazines on the stands, ninety years ago this month
Top 10 Stories for September 2023 The Dragon Award winners post was the only news story to hold its head above the flood of Pixel Scrolls in September. However, Harlan Ellison news and the Big […]
A more recent addition to the collection.
What the magazine stands might have looked like for Fans in years gone by
Sixty years ago – 1963 – would find me on the verge of discovery with the upcoming airing of Fireball XL-5 – which would eventually lead me down the path to Science Fiction Fandom. Meanwhile, […]
Eighty and ninety years ago, the news stands were a changing landscape for fans of the genre.
Lis Carey Review: Chasm City Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (Trantor Audio, 2009) Review by Lis Carey: Chasm City is set in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe, a century or so after the events of The Prefect and Elysium Fire. […]
A look at some “also-rans” in the history of the SF magazine
William McCaffrey, Charles C. Ryan, Galileo and Galaxy and Avenue Victor Hugo all come together in this SF historical nexus
FANAC, the FanHistory organization will be hosting a Zoom presentation regarding the history of Boston area Fandom, this Saturday, September 23rd, at 4PM EDT, 1PM PDT, 9PM BST (UK), Sept 24 at 6AM Melbourne, AU. […]
It’s talk like a Pirate Day today! But over here at Amazing Stories, it is “Talk Like A SPACE Pirate Day” (“Arrrr. Shiver-me timbers, beep beep!”
Ganadores de los premios Ignotus 2023: Durante la HispaCon, el pasado fin de semana se difundieron los ganadores de los premios Ignotus 2023 (los Hugo españoles): -Novela: Proyecto Kétchup, de Inés Galiano (Obscura Editorial) -Novela […]
Captain Future, the first and ONLY Science Fiction Hero Pulp!
The Many Pieces of One Piece By Michaele Jordan: Let me tell you about One Piece! ALL about it! There’s a story in that. Naturally, I always start my reviews with the production credits. Fair […]
A short-lived attempt at returning to the field by one of the genre’s first editors.
This is one that I definitely acquired in the Huckster’s Room of a convention…probably a Philcon, probably the 1974 or 1975 Philcon. (I say “Huckster” because that is what it was affectionately called back then.) […]
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