Anime Roundup 12/31/2015: Shadow Play
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani has a suitably horrifying ending, Concrete Revolutio drops a huge bomb, and more!
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Anime roundup 12/24/2015: Sad Tidings
In this week’s viewing: Gundam kills people off, Concrete Revolutio digs up wartime atrocities, and more! Merry Christmas, everyone!
Anime roundup 12/17/2015: About Time
In this week’s viewing: Catching up means a double dose of flashbacks, a sudden improvement in Utawarerumono, and more!
Review: The Troop
The Troop is an imaginative new comic of mutant heroes from Titan Comics by Noel Clarke and J. Cassara that will draw you in and not let go.
Visions of Frankenstein
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN is currently playing in theaters, although by the time you read this it may very well not be, having slunk away in disgrace after failing to pull the box office mojo. It stars […]
Excerpt: Hellmaw 3: Blind Justice by Erik Scott de Bie
Exclusive 3 chapter excerpt from Hellmaw 3: Blind Justice.
Cosplay vs. Inspirations, Side-by-side Comparisons
Being a member of several groups that enjoy cosplay, costuming, etc., does give access to a world of lively discussions. One recent discussion which came about on a Facebook group for the UK-based con, MCM, […]
BOOK REVIEW: Stephen King’s BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS
Steve once again covers the ubiquitous Stephen King, who’s got a new collection of short stories out. A new collection of King is usually something to crow about, and this one’s no exception.
Anime roundup 12/3/2015: Family Ties
In this week’s viewing: Gundam says family is a necessity, Utawarerumono says it’s embarrassing, and more!
Anime roundup 11/26/2015: Getting Warmer
In this week’s viewing: Concrete Revolutio fills in more puzzle pieces, Utawarerumono finds its way back to a plot, and more!
Film Review: Victor Frankenstein
The idea is to deconstruct and reconstruct Frankenstein as a character and a story…through the viewpoint of Igor instead of Frankenstein
Poetry Review – Dark Dreams by Christina Sng
Despite the dark content, Sng’s poetry remains pleasant to read.
Anime roundup 11/19/2015: Same Ol’ Same Ol’
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani is still scary, Gundam is still fighty, and more!
MOVIE REVIEW: UNIVERSAL’S MUMMY DEAREST (1932-33)
This week, Steve travels back to Ancient Egypt with Boris Karloff as “The Mummy.” No CGI, but scarier than Brendan Fraser’s “Mummy”!
Anime roundup 11/13/2015: Free As a Bird
In this week’s viewing: Concrete Revolutio uncovers the marvelous truth about the Beatles, and more!
Excerpt: Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon
Read an excerpt from the WHA’s 1991 Best Novel – Boy’s Life
Review: One Year After by William R. Forstchen
A blueprint for surviving the Dark Ages in the modern world, One Year After is William R. Forstchen’s follow-up thriller to the bestselling doomsday novel One Second After.
MOVIE REVIEW: NOSFERATU (1922), Copyright? What copyright?
Steve travels back to 1922 to look at the first vampire movie, Nosferatu, and its influence on modern vampire movies.
Why is Britain So Scared of Horror?
Why has the home of Shelley, Stoker & Stevenson forsaken Halloween?
Interview with Award Winning Finnish Graphic Artist Petri Hiltunen
A dual-language interview with Finnish cartoonist and comic artist Petri Hiltunen
Anime roundup 11/6/2015: The Color Out Of Space
In this week’s viewing: Concrete Revolutio mixes it up further with Martian monsters, Iron-Blooded Orphans makes it into orbit, and more!
Review: Weirdbook 31
In the spirit of its predecessor, the return of Weirdbook with issue 31 is simply here to entertain us with fresh new “weird” stories from a talented team of writers.
MOVIE REVIEW: FRANKENSTEIN (1931), Just in time for Halloween!
For Halloween, Steve looks at one of the oldest, and perhaps the best-known “monster movie” of them all, James Whale’s “Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff.
A Mixed Bag of Halloween (Eye) Candy
Just remember to look both ways before you cross the street and don’t eat all your candy all on one night.
Excerpt: Hellmaw: Your World Is Doomed by Ed Greenwood
Read an exclusive three chapter excerpt from Ed Greenwood’s Hellmaw: Your World Is Doomed
Anime roundup 10/29/2015: Misfits of Science
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani gets down to business, Concrete Revolutio has barely begun to complicate, and more!
REVIEW—CONSTANTINE: A surprisingly good movie!
This week Steve drops back ten years to review an underapreciated movie, “Constantine,” with Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, telling us why he thinks the movie deserves another look.
About Author
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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