Fourth Quarter Reader’s Choice Awards Announced!
Fourth Quarter 2023 Reader’s Choice Awards Announced!
Matt’s Reviews: Recursion by Blake Crouch
Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: June 2019 Length: 336 Pages ISBN10: 1524759783 SBN13: 9781524759780 Recursion by Blake Crouch tells the story of a brilliant woman who is trying to find a way to save memories […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler
Publisher: MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Publication date: 10/04/2022 Pages: 464 ISBN: 9780374605957 Author: Ray Nayler The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler is a ‘first contact’ story, but not in the way you might imagine. […]
Matt’s Reviews: Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Published Date: 2006 Author: Ray Bradbury Read By: Robert Fass ISBN: 0-7927-4519-1 Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury is the sequel, or maybe just the completion, […]
Matt’s (Streaming) Reviews: Bodies (Limited Series on Netflix)
“Bodies” is a relatively new science fiction limited series on Netflix. It follows 4 different detectives who come across the exact same dead naked body in an alley in London in 1890, 1941, 2023 […]
Matt’s Reviews: Alice by Christina Henry
Publisher: Ace Publication date: 08/04/2015 ISBN: 9780425266793 Pages: 304 Author: Christina Henry Alice by Christina Henry is her homage to the Alice In Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass books. Those Lewis Carroll books […]
Matt’s Reviews: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I have been spending time in the stacks of my local library and my book shelves revisiting some of the beloved books from my youth. With so many new tales being released every day, it […]
Matt’s Reviews: A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE Publication date: 02/01/1961 Book Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780553273816 Copyright Year: 1959 Author: Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. was originally published in 1959, […]
Novedades de Noviembre 1
Este es mi nuevo intento de ser consistente con las novedades, que hay tantas y si espero hasta el final del mes para anunciarlas, se hace un post muy largo. LIBROS El miércoles 8 de […]
The Big Idea: Annie Carl
Author Annie Carl is on a mission to bring the disabled writing community into the spotlight with her newest anthology, Soul Jar, written entirely by disabled authors. Come along in her Big Idea as she […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Genius Plague by David Walton
Publisher: PYR Publication date: 10/03/2017 Pages: 384 ISBN13: 9781633883437 ISBN10: 1633883434 Author: David Walton The Genius Plague by David Walton is a fun sci-fi thriller. A mycology researcher (someone who studies fungus) comes […]
Matt’s Reviews: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication date: 01/10/2012 ISBN: 9781451673319 Pages: 159 Author: Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was originally published in 1953, but it speaks volumes to the world today. I originally […]
The Big Idea: Delilah S. Dawson
Author Delilah S. Dawson has returned to the blog for a fifth Big Idea. Today she brings us Bloom, her newest romance-horror novel that mixes sweet with… bloody. Read on to see how this book came […]
Matt’s Reviews: A Tale of Two Writers – Stephen King and Ray Bradbury
Title: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000 ISBN 10: 0743506650 ISBN 13: 9780743506656 Author: Stephen King Read by: Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft […]
Matt’s Reviews: Pines by Blake Crouch
Publication Name: Brilliance Audio Publisher: Brilliance Publishing, Inc. Publication Year: 2012 ISBN-10: 1469216051 ISBN-13: 9781469216058 Author: Blake Crouch Pines by Blake Crouch is a well-written, weird story about a Secret Service Agent sent to […]
Bonus Free Story: THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM by Tom Easton and Chapter One of ESPionage: Regime Change by Tom Easton & Frank Wu
Amazing Selects recently released the thrilling SF-Espionage novel ESPionage: Regime Change by Tom Easton and Frank Wu. Now, to spur your interest and to give you some small idea of what you’ll find in that […]
Matt’s Reviews: The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Victor Gollancz Ltd (1976) Copyright: Arthur C. Clarke (1956) ISBN-10 : 0575001593 Author : Arthur C. Clarke The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “Game On!” Anthology edited by Stephen Kotowych and Tony Pi
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. GAME ON! Publisher: Zombies Need Brains LLC, July 2023. Editors: Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi Cover Art – by Justin Adams of Varia Studios Note: […]
Excerpt: STARMEN by Francis Hamit: Support the Kickstarter
Francis Hamit offers Amazing’s readers a 14,000+ word excerpt from his upcoming novel, Starmen. Starmen is a 190,000 word epic featuring, among other things, alternate history, quantum mechanics, Apache Indian myths and nasty Aliens. It all begins in 1875 El Paso, Texas.
Matt’s Reviews: Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation are the three books that make up the original Isaac Asimov sci fi classic Foundation Trilogy. These books were originally published as a series of short stories in […]
My SF Cannon
If Davidson ever becomes Emperor of the Universe, EVERYONE will have to read Science Fiction. Or ELSE!
Noah Chinn Reviews: The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney
If you woke up in the body of a robot, having died years before, who are you really? You’re not the deceased, not really. At best, you’re a simulation. Yet you have their memories and […]
CONtinuous – EveryCon, Everywhere, All at Once
Prepare yourselves for the ULTIMATE in CONventions! CONtinuous! CONtinuous is so FRAKKING massive it makes ComicCon look like your grandma’s KNITTING circle! It’s so big that no COUNTRY in the entire world has a single convention […]
RETRO REVIEW –STAR SCIENCE FICTION #2 (1954)
Steve takes you back to 1954, when newspapers cost a nickel and a bus trip through town was a dime. Back then SF writers were real men and women, not like today’s namby-pamby… er, he finds a lot of old SF fun and involving to read. He hopes you will too.
The Big Idea: L.R. Lam
Dragons! Everybody loves them and they wing their way into all sorts of places in the fantasy genre. Author L.R. Lam was determined to find a fresh spin on the familiar creatures, however, and […]
The Big Idea: Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest
There’s more to life than humanity, and in the hybrid anthology Life Beyond Us, editors Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law and Susan Forest dig into the differences, why they matter, and why they should matter […]
The Big Idea: Kat Howard
Some stories beg to be written, and sometimes characters do the same. In author Kat Howard’s case, she intentionally left a door open for her character to walk through so she could write her again. […]
BOOK REVIEW — THE FRAGRANCE OF ORCHIDS & Other Stories by Sally McBride
A new collection of short stories by Sally McBride is being published by Brain Lag Publications. It’s chock-full of terrific SF stories about aliens, people, bats, ghosts (okay, maybe that one’s kind of fantasy) and so on. Steve really liked it.
Novedades de Latinoamérica. Marzo 2
LIBROS Ha sido publicada “La infancia del mundo” la esperada nueva novela de Michel Nieva, editado por Editorial Anagrama. Dice la nota de prensa: “La infancia del mundo está escrita al ritmo frenético de las […]
The Bother With Bowbies by Jack McKenzie – FREE STORY
“Hold on,” Cordwainer said, standing up from his navigation station and facing the clients. “Are you talking live cargo? I thought we were transporting a load of horns.” “Bowble horns are no good less’n they’re […]
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