Winter 2018 SF Anime Preview
As the year turns, so does the anime season. See what’s coming up soon!
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Anime roundup 12/28/2017: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In this week’s viewing: Only three finales, because someone’s going into overtime!
“Alas de arcángel”: fantasía juvenil
Wings of the Archangel, a new novel by Ariana D. Aldaz López, explores the mother-daughter relationship
Anime roundup 12/21/2017: Who Let the Dogs Out?
In this week’s viewing: Magical Circle Guru-Guru has its final go-round, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness is now explaining other shows, and more!
Book Review: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
An entertaining historical fantasy told through family drama
Anime roundup 12/14/2017: Getting Serious
In this week’s viewing: Land of the Lustrous summons up a new foe, Inuyashiki cranks the body count, Hozuki tries out straight horror, and more!
Peck and Flap Wings Until the Sky Brings Forth Machines? by Carlos Suchowolski Translated from German into English by Tanja Coen
Yes, I can see his silhouette over there, like a paper cut against the moonlight, and I know: if I lean forward I will see him floundering away…, riding away on his witch’s broom, I think, unattainable, deaf to my whine, hue and cry (And to my warning cry!), and how he vanishes into the clouds which crown the summits.
Anime roundup 12/7/2017: Making a Meal Of It
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki adds culinary horror to its repertoire, Kino’s Journey cooks up a bunch of leftovers, and more!
Comic Review: The Last Hunt
Amigo Comics short series The Last Hunt includes elements from all of our favorite genres – and beyond.
Anime roundup 11/30/2017: Hero Complex
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki and Kino’s Journey get bored and decide to let smoeone else be the hero, and more!
Anime roundup 11/23/2017: Time Out Of Mind
In this week’s viewing: Hozuki’s Coolheadedness and Kino’s Journey make with the flashbacks, Guru-Guru gets stuck, and more!
A New Take-Home Exhibit From the Museum of Science Fiction Celebrates the Women of Sci-Fi
After a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign, the finished product is here: Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction. It’s a collection of new and reprinted works, framed as a take-home exhibit from the […]
Anime roundup 11/16/2017: Child’s Play
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki and Guru-Guru explore parental failure, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness says the Messiah is a very naughty boy, and more!
Excerpt from The Whispering Skull by Ed Greenwood
Wolf attacks…strange voices in the night…odd things are happening in this excerpt from Ed Greenwood’s new novel, The Whispering Skull.
Anime roundup 11/9/2017: Sea Change
In this week’s viewing: Kino’s Journey shows some range, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness fractures another fairy tale, and more!
‘Xaghra’s Revenge’, by Geoff Nelder
Xaghra’s Revenge is a well-written, time-travelling historical fantasy. Highly recommended!
A. Merritt on Film: Burn, Witch, Burn!
Tod Browning’s adaptation of A Merritt’s Burn, Witch Burn! was less faithful to the source material than a Mexican film based on the same material, but was technically a much better film.
Anime roundup 11/2/2017: Switching It Up
In this week’s viewing: Land of the Lustrous takes another strange turn, Guru-Guru notices a new season has started, and more!
Review: Thief of Destiny by Jay Requard
The Thief of Destiny by Jay Requard is a compilation of wonderful little stories that make up an epic fantasy adventure of sword and sorcery.
Anime roundup 10/26/2017: Two Can Play At That Game
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki introduces its antagonists to each other, Land of the Lustrous explores alien relationships, and more!
A. Merritt on Film: Seven Footprints to Satan
Taken as a spiritual successor to The Cat and the Canary, Seven Footprints to Satan is not too bad. That said, it is a shame that First National missed the chance to give filmgoers a full-blooded A. Merritt adaptation.
Review: Latest Publications from DMR Books
The dynamic correlation between basic storytelling and the emotional imagery of poetic lyrics takes center stage in the latest publications from DMR Books
AMAZING PEOPLE: M. J. Sullivan Announces New Riyria Story for December
YES! You can get the latest Riyria chronicle sooner than you thought!
Anime roundup 10/19/2017: Keeping the Wheels Turning
In this week’s viewing: A few more premieres, and then trying to set the viewing lineup for the rest of the season.
Muse of a Wizard
Open your heart to a fantasy tale, ones like your mother told you when you were still small.
HALLOWEEN: 3X STEPHEN KING (#1—IT)
In this first of three Halloween-y columns examining several media adaptations of Stephen King works, Steve talks about the new movie, and what’s wrong with IT.
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Steve has been an active fan since the 1970s, when he founded the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association (PESFA) 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 chairing or helping run Canadian cons, including ConText (’89 and ’81) and VCON. As a fan, he’s published a Hugo-nominated (one nomination) fanzine, New Venture, and he’s founded two writing groups (Writers’ Bloc and Writers of the Lost, Ink). He’s emceed and auctioned art at many West Coast and Northwest conventions including one Westercon. As a writer, he’s published a couple of books and a number of short stories (including one in Compostella [Tesseracts 20], 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 Rhea Rose’s 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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