Matt’s (Movies) Reviews: Old Science Fiction Movies
“I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary […]
Barry Malzberg 1939-2024
I first met Barry, I don’t remember exactly when. It was certainly at a convention at least somewhat adjacent to New Jersey, where we both lived. The fact that we shared a state of origin […]
The Big Idea: Lauren C. Teffeau
When does science become magic? Or is all magic really just science? Author Lauren C. Teffeau explores this in the Big Idea for her newest novella, A Hunger With No Name. Read on to […]
We Want To Bring Amazing Stories Back – And YOU Can Help
We probably don’t need to tell you that publishing a magazine in the science fiction field is not an easy task. We also probably do not need to inform you that authors in this field […]
David Brin Cues the Trumpets: Heinlein Warned Us
In a post on his blog and Facebook this morning, David Brin, noted SF author and accomplished prognosticator, reminds us that Robert Heinlein forewarned us, in quite detailed fashion, of the future upon whose precipice […]
Just My Opinion: KINGDOM of the PLANET of the APES
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The Empire (With Some Help From Some Short-Sighted American Voters) Strikes Back, A Political Essay by Chris M. Barkley
In the early morning hours of November 6th, 2024, it rained heavily in Ohio. It woke me up and I had an uneasy feeling of dread. My partner Juli and I had spent the evening […]
What Happened to the SEAVIEW from VOYAGE to the BOTTOM of the SEA?
Source: What Happened to the SEAVIEW from VOYAGE to the BOTTOM of the SEA?
What Happened to The THING From ANOTHER WORLD?
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The Big Idea: Kate Elliot
Sometimes you go long. And as Kate Elliot details in this Big Idea for The History of the World Begins in Ice, sometimes you go long to explain why, this time, you’ve gone short. KATE […]
What Happened to APE CITY from PLANET of the APES?
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The Big Idea: Nisi Shawl
Famous writers will tell you of their lives and the lives of those in their orbit. That framing, however, suggests those other lives are not on their own journeys through the universe. In this Big […]
Patrick Rands interviews Paul Levinson about It’s Real Life on WZBC Radio
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The Big Idea: Richard Thomas
The days are getting shorter and the nights longer as we head into the dark season of the year. For author Richard Thomas, that’s all to the good, because for his novel Incarnate, he wants […]
Paul Levinson interviews Bob Hutchings: An Optimistic Discussion of AI
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The Big Idea: Raven Oak
Music can raise spirits… and it can save souls. In this Big Idea for Voices Carry, author Raven Oak goes deep into the music and lyrics that carried them through the highs and lows, and […]
How Genre Author’s Can Regain Control of Their Own Destinies by Nom de Guerre
It is clear that book marketing has changed radically over the past several decades. This is not all that surprising considering how much the entire publishing industry has changed during that time. Publishers have had […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication date: 06/07/2011 Pages: 480 ISBN: 9780061452062 Author: Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley begins with the premise that overall, the world has been improving […]
The Big Idea: Abigail Owen
The pantheon of Greek gods is having a moment in popular culture recently, from the new Kaos TV series to the video game Hades, and author Abigail Owen adding her own imagination to that moment with her latest, The Games Gods Play. […]
The Big Idea: Beth Revis
Never discount the power of “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you. Watch this.” Author Beth Revis recounts how just such a thought led to her latest novel, Full Speed to a Crash Landing. BETH REVIS: We’ve […]
The Big Idea: David Niall Wilson
There’s a theme David Niall Wilson explores in When You Leave I Disappear, and it’s one familiar to artists of all sorts, not to mention others in any number of walks of life. But that theme is just […]
The Big Idea: A.Z. Rozkills
Space is unfathomably vast — and for some people, that’s a feature, not a bug. A.Z. Rozkills understands this, and that desire for space, in more than one sense of the term, is something that […]
The Big Idea: M V Melcer
What happens when you have a “surprise” sequel — one you didn’t know you were going to write — and you have take a story further without compromising what’s come before? M V Melcer has […]
The Big Idea: K.X. Song
For The Night Ends With Fire, author K.X. Song turns her eye to a strong human emotion and follows where having it leads, and what having it does to those who experience it. Which emotion […]
The Big Idea: Madeline Ashby
In today’s Big Idea for Glass Houses, author Madeline Ashby poses a question, and then poses a separate question, and then makes you question whether one or both of those questions has the answer you think might be the […]
The Big Idea: Raven Belasco
There’s a very important thing that Raven Belasco wants you to remember about the undead, and in this Big Idea for her novella collection Blood Triad, she gets into it, finding the pulse of storytelling behind some of our […]
The Big Idea: Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan
There’s so much to speculative fiction that you could write a book about it. And that’s exactly what authors Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan did! In fact, they did it twice. Today they’re here to […]
Norman Spinrad at Large: Life as We Don’t Know It?
My “On Books” review in ASIMOV magazine, CITIZENS OF THE GALAXY, is about to be published and when I wrote it I said that the existence of life beyond our planet and or/solar system might […]
The Big Idea: Owen B Greenwald
The universe is filled with many wondrous things, but perhaps the most wondrous is when two authors can meld their visions together to create a single, unified work. Owen B Greenwald explains how, for Weapons […]
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