The Big Idea: Zilka Joseph
The world is wider than we often know, with more people and communities in them than many of us have heard of before. In Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, author Zilka […]
The world is wider than we often know, with more people and communities in them than many of us have heard of before. In Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, author Zilka […]
Sometimes as an author, you have to work to develop a character. And sometimes, they just… appear. Which of these did author Kerry Faye have happen for her novel Dead Girl? She’s here now to […]
Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (permalink) Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything […]
Pues, yo no quería hacer ningún comentario negativo a mi experiencia sobre la última Wordcon, pero hay tanta controversia, sobre todo con el Hugo, que pienso es mi responsabilidad hablar sobre mi experiencia. En primer […]
Some of you are crazy about space colonization now! I can dig it; it’s always been a dream for me, as well. Still, elsewhere I talk about the harm this mindset may be wreaking, upon […]
Let’s all try to play nice.
As a youngster in the 1960’s, I was an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, and fed my voracious appetite by emptying the shelves of my local library – six books at a time […]
2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down due to enshittification (permalink) It’s been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn’t the first phreak/hacker […]
Looking backward about half a century as a published writer, it’s a too long and complicated a story for me to tell myself even if I wanted to, which I don’t, so from here on […]
The Fannish Inquisition we SHOULD expect.
Well it’s been quite a while since I wrote one of these, and this being near the end of 2023, it seems to be a good time to let it be known that I’m still […]
An interview with the author of Worldconned: How China Co-Opted Sci-Fi’s Crown Jewel Amidst the Uyghur Genocide.
“Instead of helping envision a better future for humanity, Worldcon might have actually helped further Chinese repression.”
Should we vet countries before they host a Worldcon? If so – what values are we looking for?
Chengdu uses Amazing Stories logo in promotional video
If Davidson ever becomes Emperor of the Universe, EVERYONE will have to read Science Fiction. Or ELSE!
In fact, far greater fractions of today’s world oligarchy are old money inheritance brats, or hedge parasites, or casino mafiosi, petro-princes and the like – elites who are all considerably more discreet and secretive than […]
Robert Charles Wilson has been writing science fiction since the publication of his first novel, A Hidden Place, in 1986. His novels include Darwinia, Blind Lake, and Spin, which received numerous awards including the Hugo Award, the Grand Prix […]
If a book can be delivered at Warp Speed, you won’t be reading it any time soon – you might not even know what “any time” is anymore!
Today’s Big Idea is short… but is it sweet? Joe R. Lansdale’s collection title promises that Things Get Ugly, and maybe, sometimes, that’s the way it should be. JOE LANSDALE: Things Get Ugly has […]
I am a co-author of this paper, “Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats,” announcing “Project Sundiver”… offering a wide suite of potential fast interplanetary missions that could accelerate far faster than today’s rockets can manage, by swooping […]
It’s not coming, it’s already here. Robert Heinlein wrote a story called The Year of the Jackpot in which all the shit hits the fan, it wasn’t about climate change, but 2023 is definitely it. […]
Is this worth pondering as another worry on our plate? A year or so ago astronomers were saying “Don’t worry (much) about Betelgeuse going supernova any time soon,” despite the earlier nerves set off by […]
UAPs are not alien space vehicles and they never will be.
When was Science Fiction first established? In 1926…and not before.
(The SETI Institute has issued a carefully evasive position paper on the topic, essentially saying “we’ll stay in our lane.”) Sure, a majority have already been explained by careful analyses of receding jet engine exhausts […]
Hugo Awards Finalist list published, then rescinded
Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
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