The International Board on Books for Young People is proud to announce the 2014 Jury and the candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international distinction given […]
Mexican Author Verónica Murguía Wins Spanish Great Angular SM Literary Award Tax Evaders Video Game The Mexican writer Verónica Murguía has won the Great Angular SM award with her YA fantasy novel, LOBA (Wolf). She is […]
Angry Robot Signs James A. Moore Strange Chemistry Signs Cassandra Rose Clarke Elizabeth Bear and Andy Duncan accept appointment to the jury for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Black Science Fiction Society Announes Project Stargazer […]
At Long Last…Centuries in the Making!….Like Nothing Ever Seen Before!…..For the First Time Ever!….Is This the Beginning of the End?…or is it just THE END OF THE BEGINNING!?! Da Da DAAAAAAAAAAA! Almost from our opening […]
Only one item today: Your’s truly was interviewed by the prestigious StarShipSofa and its enormously enthusiastic host Tony C. Smith this past Tuesday (at the ungodly hour of 6 am no less). The interview appears […]
“SHOULD YOU BE BLACKLISTED, MR. CARD?” The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art New York, NY Share this event: Wednesday Apr 10, 2013 7:00 PM – Wednesday Apr 10, 2013 9:00 PM | $12.00 “SHOULD YOU […]
Update below. via Facebook and SFX, today we learned the sad news that Iain M. Banks has late-stage gall bladder cancer. Iain has written a letter to his fans and readers that you can see […]
Today, on April 1st – and this is no joke – Amazing Stories crosses the 500 posts line. Congratulations to all of our contributors. If you would really like to thank them, pay a visit […]
When those who are critical of science fiction’s predictive powers – or seeming lack thereof – are searching for a pithy sentence with which to punctuate their position, they often resort to an annoying little […]
Our own Michael Brotherton (sky seer!) has been conducting the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for a number of years now. The program recently lost its funding from NASA (thank you sequestration) and is looking into […]
From the Should Posted This Before Department: The New York Review of Science Fiction presents David Hartwell’s list of 200 SIGNIFICANT SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS BY WOMEN – 1984 – 2001. Mr. Hartwell is an […]
This post has been removed because its content may be incorporated into a forthcoming book by the author. To find more articles by Jack Clemons, go here. Information about Jack’s new book will be forthcoming.
NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, articles linked to here are sourced from SF Signal and File 770. One of my all-time heroes gets a “non-action” figure all to himself. Forrest J. Ackerman, Science Fiction’s #1 Fan, […]
Irish Times on The New Future of SF via SF Signal Interesting piece on one of my faves – Cordwainer Smith – in the Atlantic. (via SF Signal) Technology outstrips society and the law once […]
Those who think that re-booting the original Star Trek was a good idea will probably think that the latest Star Trek Into Darkness promo is also a good idea: a bunch of drones carrying light […]
Via Huffingtonpost – The Most Detailed Map of the Internet to Date Hacker’s “broke in” to about half a million devices worldwide to create the most detailed map of internet usage to date. Want to […]
There has been much talk this week about the contract terms of Random House’s new digital imprints. John Scalzi, president of the SFWA has had several posts on his his blog and Hydra’s (that’s the digital […]
Starship Sofa Fund Raiser New Fiction at Pulpgen Sarcology from Right Brane Publications Via Facebook: The mellifluous host of Starship Sofa announces a fund raiser and links to this audio promo featuring author Peter Watts. […]
Welcome to the Amazing Stories BLOG HORDE INTERVIEWS! The ASM Blog Horde is a diverse and wonderful species. I have the privilege of talking with all of them, and I get to share those chats with […]
Our Own Felicity Savage is profiled in Lightspeed Magazine Shared Worlds, the Teen Writing Camp has launched its registration drive The April issue of Playboy has a story featuring the Manana Literary Society, a writer’s […]
Tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs New Haikasoru Release The John Carter Files website ran a very nice tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs on the anniversary of his death yesterday. ~~~ THIS IS NOT A NOVEL. […]
This is the fifth in the series and is from data as of 3/14/2013. Links to review previous data: 01/03/2013 01/24/2013 02/17/2013 03/03/2013 As always this data comes from the Amazon Kindle Epic Fantasy […]
Welcome to the Amazing Stories BLOG HORDE INTERVIEWS! The ASM Blog Horde is a diverse and wonderful species. I have the privilege of talking with all of them, and I get to share those chats with […]
Irish Wake for Jan Howard Finder. Legendary fan Jan Howard Finder passed away recently from complications from cancer and chemo therapy. His friends and fellow fans are honoring his request that they hold an Irish […]
Our own Felicity Savage informs us that: Felicity Savage, writer and AMAZING STORIES blogger, and Japanese illustrator Hiroko Katayama have released their first picture book: Shotaro, the Ants, and the Big Earthquake. Targeting preschoolers, Shotaro […]
UPDATE: Boy Howdy! are we getting closer to the day when someone not a character in a novel will be head to say “yeah, the tube linings are shot, we’re going to have to replace […]
Welcome to the Amazing Stories BLOG HORDE INTERVIEWS! The ASM Blog Horde is a diverse and wonderful species. I have the privilege of talking with all of them, and I get to share those chats with […]
PSFS Announces March 8 Talk – Jay Smith Angry Robot Signs Rachel Neumeier Suvudu Starts Character Cage Match Northwest Writers Honor Octavia Butler
This is the fourth in the series and is from data as of 3/03/2013. Links to review previous data: 01/03/2013 01/24/2013 02/17/2013 As always this data comes from the Amazon Kindle Epic Fantasy Bestseller […]
The New York Times has a lifestyle piece about Ron Maxwell, a Rocky Horror Picture Show cast member who has been doing the Time Warp, Again, since 1979. A Lifestyle piece about a Rocky cast […]
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