FAN FOTOS: Bill Plott Visits J. T. Oliver
Bill Plott shares photos from a visit to J. T. Oliver of southern fandom fame.
HOW NOT TO EDIT A PROGRAM BOOK: OR THE ADVENTURES OF A TWENTIETH CENTURY COMPUTER ILLITERATE AMID THE SPLENDOURS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Want to make sure your contributions arrive on time? Threaten them. Tell them you’ll make up stuff and place their name prominently at the head of the gibberish you’ve concocted. Articles will pour in.
Review – Searching for Ray Bradbury by Steven Paul Leiva
A loving tribute to the memory of one of the most important figures both in the history of our genres and in American popular culture and the literature of the 20th century.
A Science Fiction Timeline: Yesterday and Tomorrow
A timeline of the development of science fiction, from one fan’s viewpoint.
Afrocentric Science Fiction Conventions
Black Age of Comics Convention An artist, entrepreneur, author, art therapist, educator, and publisher, Turtel Onli founded the Black Arts Guild (BAG) in 1970, which was based in Chicago. The BAG sponsored art exhibitions and published […]
What Mecha Did For Me; Or, I’m An Anime Writer Because of Space Robots
I was deep into Gundam Wing starting in middle school, and it was the catalyst for me to start taking drawing and writing very seriously.
ABSOLUTE ZERO Cool Websites – Very Cool
Very Cool websites you should visit – after reading Amazing Stories
“Will people be in costume?” How mainstream media sees SF fans.
Maybe it’s time for fans to relax about how the mainstream media sees us. We do sort of rule the world.
Website Review: Star Wars dot com
For fans of classic space opera, one of the most iconic movie franchises ever produced in the genre is arguably that of the Star Wars saga. Not surprisingly, one of the most informative sites on the web pertaining to all that is Star Wars is the aptly named www.starwars.com.
Fred and Me
“It is rare that someone who you first come to know as an icon becomes a human and a friend, and that is what happened with Fred in the years that I’ve known him
¿Qué está Pasando en AS? Literatura del Género versus “Mainstream”
Further explorations – and personal experience – with the genre-mainstream divide
James Tiptree Jr. / Alice Sheldon: Acerca de la identidad de género
A discussion of women in SF and their progress or lack thereof over the course of the past half-century.
Memories of the World Science Fiction Convention 2013
Science fiction has a long future ahead. While this was my first Worldcon, I hope it will not be my last.
When Science Fiction IS Science Fiction
It is a profound mistake to interpret the genre of science fiction literally
More Women in Science Fiction
Profiles of women science fiction authors – including the mother of it all, Mary Shelley.
The Tom Swift Jr. Series
The Tom Swift Jr. books had great, evocative covers, quite pulp-like, and were quick reads.
Animanga: Surprisingly Not A Man’s World
I am glad that I’ve never had to defend myself and what I love because of something so trivial as my gender expression. I can only hope that the entirety of fandom can grow to this point and further as dialogues surrounding hobbies and sexism continue to spring forth.
Top Post de Agosto
En todo caso más vale tarde que nunca, aquí algunos de los más interesantes artículos que fueron populares en las últimas semanas.
An Elegy to Pohl
This homage to Frederik Pohl is by no means a reflection on the author’s complete body of work enjoyed by his fans over the years. It just can’t be done in this small of a space. This is but a tiny glimpse at the work of a man many of us looked up to. This is a look at his first publication – his first of many.
The Artful Collector: State of the Art at the 71st Worldcon
Fans, publishers, art directors, and collectors expected Worldcon art shows to display the best-of-the-best art being created in the field, and top artists looked forward to meeting their expections. NO MORE.
About Author
Steve has been an active fan since the 1970s, when he founded the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association and the more-or-less late MosCon in Pullman, WA and Moscow, ID, though he started reading SF/F in the early-to-mid 1950s, when he was just a sprat. He moved to Canada in 1985 and quickly became involved with Canadian cons, including ConText (’89 and ’81) and VCON. He’s published a couple of books and a number of short stories, and has collaborated with his two-time Aurora-winning wife Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk on a number of art projects. As of this writing he’s the proofreader for R. Graeme Cameron’s Polar Borealis and Polar Starlight publications. He’s been writing for Amazing Stories off and on since the early 1980s. His column can be found on Amazing Stories most Fridays.
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