Dragons were given their title sometime around the13th century, their name coming from the Greek word δράκων, (drakon) meaning “giant seafish”. Legends in both the Orient and Europe spotlighted these fire breathing serpentine creatures. Heroes […]
Heinlein’s YA (Juvenile) work is still generating praise and controversy.
CE Martin announces the latest release in his Stone Soldiers series – Terracota
A profile of Argentianian author Angelica Gorodischer.
Lionel Fanthorpe, the man who sold 170 books to a publisher and it only took him eight to twelve hours to write each one?
Avance de la presentación de Neonauta Ediciones en la Jornada de la TerBi, Nuevo número de “Alfa Eridiani” y La nueva de los Wachowski se rodó en Bilbao
Why so many paranormal shows? Maybe its because so many people believe in that stuff….
An excerpt from Dianne Lynn Gardner’s YA tale of a dystopian future in which everyone may be a GMO experiment.
Felicity Savage’s short story – Finity – is now on sale as a Kindle short story for 99 cents. Featuring the same cover art by Duncan Long as graced the pages of Amazing Stories 88th […]
The latest issue of Weird Tales is now on sale, featuring all manner of undead things!
A look at the audiobook, A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan.
A thing of steel and alloy—a rocket ship. Yet it claimed respect and gave a great enduring loyalty.
Our last piece of fiction in the 88th anniversary issue touches on many SF themes.
Two very different tales today: The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan, a Riyria Chronicles tale and The Pixie, by Steven M. Long
Today’s fiction – Finity by Felicity Savage.
Ira Nayman’s Weird Stories, Strangely Told.
The enormous media interest in self-publishing has been fired by the breakthrough success of Wool by Hugh Howey, so SF is leading the way in this field. It’s strange therefore to hear the Guardian’s flamboyant Books section editor Claire Armistead warning that “It’s all too easy to dismiss the self-publishing sector as a wilderness of elves, sex and high-school romcoms”.
Today’s fiction: Virtually Yours by Nina Munteanu
I seem to be unable to do single columns about stuff I’m passionate about. Heinlein is no exception. Robert A. Heinlein, who was characterized as the “Dean of Science Fiction,” though he was not necessarily […]
Today we get a double dose of Duncan Long, first as author of the brilliant and provocative short story Lightning War and then as illustrator of the self-same story. Lightning War takes us to a […]
SI UNA MUJER-LOBO EMBARAZADA SE TRANSFORMA, ¿EL BEBÉ SE TRANSFORMA TAMBIÉN?
Read Michael A. Burstein’s Cosmic Corkscrew in Amazing Stories 88th Anniversary Issue.
Today in the magazine: John Purcell’s Customer Service, with artwork by Duncan Long.
The Winston SF series – part two – in all it’s juvenile glory. Steve has some good info on how to obtain copies, reprints and replacement dust jackets.
Read today’s fiction in Amazing Stories 88th Anniversary issue – Spirit Dance by award winning author Douglas Smith
A look at self-publishing promotional strategies.
Back in the Good Old (or Bad, depends on your point of view) Days, fiction—especially SF—that was written for a teen audience was called “Juvenile” fiction; I don’t believe any disparagement was meant, or at […]
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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