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Anime roundup 6/16/2016: Fun For the Whole Family
In this week’s viewing: Re: ZERO and The Lost Village go on family-induced guilt trips, Kagewani comes up with a novel use for blood ties, and more!
Anime roundup 6/9/2016: Stand Back, I’m Going to Try Science
In this week’s viewing: The Lost Village and Kagewani uncork the pseudoscience, Concrete Revolutio dives into cheesy filmmaking, and more!
SF and F Scribes, Scribblers – and Scrivener
Writing tools for writers: Dodd’s and friends take a look at Scrivener.
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price: the actors who defined a genre
The legacy of Cushing, Lee and Price
Anime roundup 6/2/2016: Little Fuzzy Animals
In this week’s viewing: Mutant killer bunnies (for peaceful purposes), magic killer puppies, and more!
Review: Night Terrors by J. A. Pitts
Night Terrors by J. A. Pitts will take readers into a nightmarish dreamland of evil spirits in this fourth installment to the Sarah Beauhall stories.
Anime roundup 5/26/2016: The Dark Forest
In this week’s viewing: Re: ZERO crushes its hero’s spirit again, Concrete Revolutio takes on Vietnam, and more!
Cameo Creeps: Tiny Paintings With Monster Details!
Fascinating collectible miniature monster paintings with amazing detail and bone-chilling appeal! Cameo Creeps are painstakingly detailed miniature monster portraits inspired by Elizabethan paintings of the past. What makes these unique and fascinating is their size. […]
Comic Review: Seekers of the Weird
What better way for Marvel and Disney to work together than making comics based around Disney Park attractions?
Exclusive Excerpt: Hellmaw 08: Throckmorton’s Trick by Ed Greenwood
Read the latest Hellaw Excerpt!
Anime roundup 5/19/2016: Red Herrings
In this week’s viewing: Re: ZERO and The Lost Village fling confusing clues in all directions, and more!
Anime roundup 5/12/2016: The Weapons Shops of Nerima
In this week’s viewing: My Hero Academia starts combat training, The Lost Village gets tacticool, and more!
Anime roundup 5/5/2016: Chasing Shadows
In this week’s viewing: The Lost Village reveals its monster, Re: ZERO drops more hints toits mystery, and more!
Weird and Intriguing: Cat People Score Sounds Remarkably Like Star Wars Score
Music from Cat People, 1942, evokes John Williams’ Star Wars score
Anime roundup 4/28/2016: Who’s the Boss
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani gets around to updating us on the title character, The Lost Village is cagey about its protagonist, and more!
Exclusive Excerpt: Hellmaw 7: Of the Essence by Gabrielle Harbowy
When a powerful daemon is murdered on modern-day Earth, all signs point in the same direction
Anime roundup 4/21/2016: And This Is Where the Story Really Starts
In this week’s viewing: Two more premieres, and then the final lineup for the rest of the season!
TWO AVERAGE FILMS: “THE BOY” (2016) and “THE FOREST” (2016)—AND MORE EBOOKS!
Ebooks and more ebooks! Cheap and plentiful; Steve finds them for you! Oh, and Steve reviews two so-so “horror flicks” that should have been better. But that’s what the film industry seems to be offering this week!
Anime roundup 4/7/2016: On Your Marks
In this week’s viewing: The starting gun fires for the spring season! What’s taking the early lead?
Exclusive Excerpt: Hellmaw 6: Incubus Tweets by J. Robert King
Today – the sixth volume in the Hellmaw series – Incubus Tweets by J. Robert King.
BOOK REVIEW: FRIGHT MARES, (edited by) BILLIE SUE MOSIMAN; AWARD NOMINATION DEADLINES, and MORE WRITING INFORMATION
This week Steve looks at a new horror anthology—all stories by women writers—edited by Billie Sue Mosiman, and talks a bit about the Hugo and Aurora awards (in self-promotion); plus another snippet of Pinterest boards for writers. Take a look!
Guilty Pleasures – The Movies We Love to Hate (But Secretly Just Love)
Mr. Jackson apparently doesn’t know we’re not supposed to share our guilty pleasures!
Review – Zen of the Dead, ed. Lester Smith
This year’s Zen of the Dead includes more fiction than previous years
Exclusive Excerpt: Hellmaw 5: Eye of Glass by Marie Bilodeau
Member’s exclusive excerpt: HellMaw 5: Eye of Glass by Marie Bilodeau
The Walking Dead v The Walking Dead
Which is better, Robert Kirkman’s classic comic book series The Walking Dead from Image Comics or Robert Kirkman’s hit television series The Walking Dead on AMC?
FREAKS OF NATURE film review, plus POLAR BOREALIS—a new semiprozine!
This week, Steve reviews the 2015 Horror-humour film “Freaks of Nature” and finds it rather flat, then alerts the media (us!) about a new semi-pro Canadian SF/F e-magazine!
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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