Hoist Sails to Winds of Adventure.
Dianne gets to be a pirate. (We all want to be one too….)
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AMAZING PEOPLE In the News
A film short – Altered – based on the writings of Dianne Gardner, is now competing in a film contest.
Indie Dragons Still Spouting Fire!
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 Novels From Scribners and Other Things, continued
Heinlein’s YA (Juvenile) work is still generating praise and controversy.
AMAZING PEOPLE In the News
CE Martin announces the latest release in his Stone Soldiers series – Terracota
ANGÉLICA GORODISCHER, o la capacidad de reinventarse
A profile of Argentianian author Angelica Gorodischer.
The Beast of Badger Books, or: the Prolific Profligacy of R. Lionel Fanthorpe, SF Author
Lionel Fanthorpe, the man who sold 170 books to a publisher and it only took him eight to twelve hours to write each one?
Noticias Literatura 14-5
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
How Horror has Devolved in Popular Culture
Why so many paranormal shows? Maybe its because so many people believe in that stuff….
EXCERPT: Altered by Dianne Lynn Gardner
An excerpt from Dianne Lynn Gardner’s YA tale of a dystopian future in which everyone may be a GMO experiment.
AMAZING PEOPLE: Felicity Savage’s Finity Now On Sale
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 […]
AMAZING THINGS: You Should Know
The latest issue of Weird Tales is now on sale, featuring all manner of undead things!
Audiobook Review: A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
A look at the audiobook, A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan.
I, Rocket by Ray Bradbury with an Introduction by JM Stine
A thing of steel and alloy—a rocket ship. Yet it claimed respect and gave a great enduring loyalty.
Fiction In Amazing Stories Today: The Geno Virus by R. K. Troughton
Our last piece of fiction in the 88th anniversary issue touches on many SF themes.
Today’s Fiction In Amazing Stories: The Pixie by Steven M. Long and The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan
Two very different tales today: The Jester by Michael J. Sullivan, a Riyria Chronicles tale and The Pixie, by Steven M. Long
Fiction in Amazing Stories Today: Finity by Felicity Savage
Today’s fiction – Finity by Felicity Savage.
Fiction In Amazing Stories Today: Ira Nayman’s Weird Stories, Strangely Told
Ira Nayman’s Weird Stories, Strangely Told.
Self-publishing Competitions: Leave Your Elves At Home
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”.
Fiction In Amazing Stories Today: Nina Munteanu’s Virtually Yours
Today’s fiction: Virtually Yours by Nina Munteanu
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S JUVENILES: Are they still good? (Part One)
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 […]
Fiction In Amazing Stories Today: Lightning War by Duncan Long
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 […]
Una mujer-lobo embarazada: ejercicio de verosimilitud
SI UNA MUJER-LOBO EMBARAZADA SE TRANSFORMA, ¿EL BEBÉ SE TRANSFORMA TAMBIÉN?
Fiction In Amazing Stories Today: Cosmic Corkscrew by Michael A. Burstein
Read Michael A. Burstein’s Cosmic Corkscrew in Amazing Stories 88th Anniversary Issue.
Fiction In Amazing Stories Today: Customer Service by John Purcell
Today in the magazine: John Purcell’s Customer Service, with artwork by Duncan Long.
SOME OF THE BEST YA SF EVER: The “Winston YAs” Part II
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.
About Author
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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