An Interview with Jo Graham
Lesley Smith interviews Jo Graham, the author of numerous books from Stargate tie-in novels to her own Numinous World series.
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Special Report: Science Fiction Publishing and Art in Italy
This Amazing Stories special report interviews several science fiction artist working at Edizioni Della Vigna (Vineyard Publishing). Included are responses to questions from Alessandro Bani, Alexa Cesaroni, and Guiseppe Festino. It’s richly sprinkled with dozens of images that will simply AMAZE you.
The Artful Collector: What Gets MY attention at a Worldcon art show?
I am totally biased and opinionated when it comes to art. It has to connect with me in some emotional way.
Introduction to SFF – 4- Slick
After I was introduced to pulp magazines in the 70s and read Isaac Asimov’s stories of his encounters with John Campbell back in the Golden Age, I started seriously looking for science fiction. For one […]
Anime roundup 8/16/2013: Take Heart
In this week’s viewing: Hunter x Hunter lays on the foreshadowing, Space Brothers, of all shows, does something mindbogglingly, cringingly offensive, and more!
Marketing As A Metafictional Tool: Harnessing the Power of Misdirection
Deliberate misdirection is a writer’s tool that also deserves a place in the marketer’s toolkit. Here’s how writers can colonize the search page, where the reading experience ought to start.
Discovering Science Friction: Snark Week 2013
Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives could easily have been made into a Syfy Channel movie (if they’d used lower resolution cameras, thrown in a former 1980s TV star and some cornball music).
Urban Fantasy in Urban Ideal
I have recently read and reviewed several urban fantasy books, by virtue of having tripped into a bit of an urban fantasy phase. It was originally accidental and then became very intentional. In reviewing ‘Cursed’ […]
Shaping History at Gen Con 2013
The summer convention schedule marches on. Already we have sampled the delights of E3 and Comic-Con, and WorldCon looms on the horizon. This weekend another destination convention takes the stage, as Gen Con 2013 gets […]
Review: Errantry, by Elizabeth Hand
Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand Small Beer Press 2012 There’s a phrase used by some in Maine, where Elizabeth Hand lives part of the year, to describe those who aren’t Mainers: they are “from […]
The Numinous World of Jo Graham
Historical fiction is not my thing and neither is historical fantasy but, then Jo Graham’s books are not simply tales set in ancient times, they’re something more. I first came across her debut novel, a […]
The Artful Collector: The Major Awards for Artists and ART: The Chesley
Browsing through my photo file yielded one of me taken at the 16th annual Chesley Awards, 2001, accepting an award for one of the winners. Which did not include me 🙂 (although I have been […]
Anime roundup 8/9/2013: The Zero’s Journey
Hunter x Hunter #90 – Nodding to old sf tropes once again, the new Chimera Ant king is after both braaaaaaaains and our women. And he demonstrates how mustache-twirlingly evil he is by killing two […]
Review: Magic 2014
It seems like just yesterday I’d won a pack of strange cards with the word magic written on them. Peeling off the foil revealed strange, mystical images and symbols — both enticing and entrancing. I […]
Fall Harvest 2009
[Ed. Note: This article is reprinted from the Internet Review of Science Fiction with permission of the author.] Mercy Thompson: Homecoming (Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 8/09), story by Patricia Briggs and David Lawrence, artwork by Francis […]
La ciencia ficción no es diversión vacía
Ante todo, deseo saludar educadamente, pues es mi primer escrito para Amazing Stories. Mi intención es hablar de muchos temas, entre los que estarán las reseñas y comentarios de obras de ciencia ficción venezolanas, artículos […]
Introduction to SFF – 3 – Dark they Were, and Golden Eyed
I’d been introduced to the idea of owning my own books pretty young, but as a child in Vienna, I didn’t have much money to buy them – English books were expensive, and I was […]
ABSOLUTE ZERO: Cool Sites – Very Cool
Science Fiction Television Gerry Anderson Official Website Fanderson Site Anderson Encycliopedia Neil Gaiman Sings XL5 Theme Song Irwin Allen Irwin Allen Irwin Allen News Website Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Lost in […]
The Artful Collector: The Major Awards for Artists and ART: The Hugo
As I was downloading some bid sheets this week, in preparation for packing up the art to be displayed at the LoneStarCon3 Art Show, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention (San Antonio TX) I was […]
Frank Kelly Freas
Science fiction is a literature of ideas. It is also a literature that tries to show us the future, although it is not often directly predictive, it tries to look ahead to show us the […]
Anime roundup 8/2/2013: Take a Number
Gatchaman Crowds #3 – This is the first sf work I know of to grapple full-on with the implications of widespread social networking. In any medium. You can point to any number of stories where […]
Hugo by the Numbers Part 2
Let this serve as your reminder that final ballots for the 2013 Hugo Awards are due today. (07/31/13) With that in mind, I bring you my continued parade of Hugo Award statistics from across the […]
Review: Cloud Atlas
Movie Review: “Cloud Atlas,” written and directed by Tom Twyker and the Wachowski siblings, Andy and Lana, from the book by David Mitchell. Before I start, let me reiterate that I don’t like “spoiler” reviews […]
The Artful Collector: Another Question from my Archives: Will They Still Love “it” When I’m 64?
A collector asked me last year: Watching Heritage and other auctions for the past couple of years, it seems that the artwork and books that are selling best and at the highest prices are those […]
Crossing the Divide Between Science Fiction and Fantasy
There are some people who have clear preferences among their reading genres. Myself, I read more science fiction than fantasy, but there are times when I definitely want the fantasy. Then there’s my dad. He’s […]
Anime roundup 7/26/2013: The Safety Dance
Gatchaman Crowds #2 – Gatchaman Crowds has declared its thesis topic, which is the gamification of human interactions as mediated by the Internet. Gamification is, broadly, the application of game-like scoring systems to Internet sites […]
Super Absurd Japanese Name: Shin Megami Tensei IV
The thing that’s kept me coming back to Shin Megami Tensei over the years has been its most Sci-Fi element: its sense of discovery. IV, the series latest entry for the 3DS, emphasizes this point; […]
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