Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya by Steven Savanna
Excerpt from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya Excerpt 1: Lucas left Ruby’s slot and made a hasty path back to his own slot. He had only just arrived and was seated watching a news […]
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Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect by Steven Savanna
Excerpt from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect Excerpt 1: He stood and grabbed the woman, who also stood and now began to struggle with him. But his action was unexpected when he grabbed […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From the V1N1 Collection – with a twist: Black Gate
A more recent addition to the collection.
Book Review: Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE (07/07/2020) ISBN: 9780756416935 Pages: 368 Author: Nnedi Okorafor Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor includes a new Binti story in addition to the three original novellas. Okorafor has […]
The News Stand Galleries for September (1933 – 2013)
What the magazine stands might have looked like for Fans in years gone by
News Stand Anniversaries – 60 Years Ago
Sixty years ago – 1963 – would find me on the verge of discovery with the upcoming airing of Fireball XL-5 – which would eventually lead me down the path to Science Fiction Fandom. Meanwhile, […]
News Stand Anniversaries
Eighty and ninety years ago, the news stands were a changing landscape for fans of the genre.
Versions of You by Stephen R. Case – FREE STORY
I cry when you come to the door. It has been almost three weeks since you were hit walking home. And now, here you are, in t-shirt and khaki slacks, with the hesitant half-grin you wear […]
Novedades de Septiembre 1
LIBROS En México, durante la Feria Universitaria del Libro 2023 de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Federico Schafer dió la conferencia « Colección Aztlanópolis. Ciencia Ficción Mexica(na)». El evento se llevó a cabo el viernes 1 […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: The FIRST Science Fiction Magazines
A look at some “also-rans” in the history of the SF magazine
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Galileo
William McCaffrey, Charles C. Ryan, Galileo and Galaxy and Avenue Victor Hugo all come together in this SF historical nexus
Noticias Literatura 19-9
Ganadores de los premios Ignotus 2023: Durante la HispaCon, el pasado fin de semana se difundieron los ganadores de los premios Ignotus 2023 (los Hugo españoles): -Novela: Proyecto Kétchup, de Inés Galiano (Obscura Editorial) -Novela […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Captain Future: Wizard of Science
Captain Future, the first and ONLY Science Fiction Hero Pulp!
For the Betterment of All by C.B. Droege – FREE STORY
The mathematician split his time evenly among observation, calculation, and sleep. He never did conform to the can’s twenty-four-hour schedule. He had been accustomed to a thirty-hour day, and apparently saw no social or functional […]
Amazing News: September 17th, 2023
Too much to summarize, so we’ll highlight: Amazing Selects titles are highlighted; Stephen King has gone “woke”; WEBB may have found exoplanet biosignatures; two new Kickstarters of interest; Lando goes to the big screen; moonquakes, AI fears, Fire Ants invade, awesome space pics and a bit of humor in this week’s news.
Today’s Favorite V1N1 Magazine is – From 1940
A short-lived attempt at returning to the field by one of the genre’s first editors.
Book Review: Remote Control By Nnedi Okorafor
Author : Nnedi Okorafor Publisher : TORDOTCOM (01/19/2021) Language : English Paperback : 160 pages ISBN-13 : 9781250772800 Remote Control By Nnedi Okorafor is a beautiful little book. […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: The Magazine of Fantasy
This is one that I definitely acquired in the Huckster’s Room of a convention…probably a Philcon, probably the 1974 or 1975 Philcon. (I say “Huckster” because that is what it was affectionately called back then.) […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Fantastic Universe
Fantastic Universe, one of the more successful digests emerging from the 1953 Boom in SF magazines.
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Space Stories
Today, a short-lived action-adventure SF magazine from 1952 that brings back memories of the ice cream truck
Novedades de Agosto
OBITUARIO El escritor cubano Félix Mondéjar, conocido por el seudónimo de F. Mond, uno de los autores más populares de la ciencia ficción cubana durante la década de 1980, cuando publicó varias exitosas novelas, falleció […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Dynamic Science Stories
Another pulp magazine from the late 1930s that forms part of Marvel Comic’s pre-history
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Amazing Forries
An autobiographical “pulp” celebrating the life and times of Fandom’s Number 1 Fan Personality
May She Live Forever by Peter J. Carter – FREE STORY
The next time I saw her was two years after she died. My wife was thirty-two years old when cancer took her. She was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, an insidious tendrillar growth that grows in your brain, […]
AMAZING NEWS: September 10th, 2023
Tiny humans still entertaining anthropologists; India’s moon landing; Edelman’s pic from the 51st Worldcon; astronauts return; Fanzine scanning; new Di Filippo release; Garcia makes a case for fanzines; Hunt Valley Inn closing; Star Wars going “from bad to worse” and chickens get dino legs!
Book Review: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Harperaudio ISBN: 9780062314345 Binding: Compact Disc Published: 10/15/2013 Language: English Edition: Unabridged Author: Kurt Vonnegut Narrator: Stanley Tucci Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut is a strange story. It is almost not a […]
The Big Idea: Jon Evans
There’s the observation that at any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In Jon Evans’ new novel Exadelic, this may be more right than anyone ever suspected. JON EVANS: Exadelic‘s big idea is why […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Starlog
Starlog, a very successful media-oriented magazine
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Star Science Fiction
Frederik Pohl (and yes, there is no “c” in Froderik) is a personal favorite among the ranks of classic SF authors. But he’s not just one of my favorite authors (and a guy who I […]
The Big Idea: Abby Goldsmith
Standing apart from the crowd is usually seen as a good thing. It makes you cooler than the majority. But what if going against the majority was dangerous? Even life threatening? Enter the dystopian world […]
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