Interview with Award-Winning Editor Ellen Datlow
For more than 30 years, Ellen has edited speculative fiction with a discerning eye, helping to shape the stories and authors we all love to read.
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Comic Review: Star Trek / Doctor Who: Assimilation²
In Star Trek / Doctor Who: Assimilation Squared, we are treated with probably the most accurate comic representations of both TNG and Matt Smith era Doctor Who.
Special Report: Science Fiction Publishing and Art in Italy
This Amazing Stories special report interviews several science fiction artist working at Edizioni Della Vigna (Vineyard Publishing). Included are responses to questions from Alessandro Bani, Alexa Cesaroni, and Guiseppe Festino. It’s richly sprinkled with dozens of images that will simply AMAZE you.
The Artful Collector: What Gets MY attention at a Worldcon art show?
I am totally biased and opinionated when it comes to art. It has to connect with me in some emotional way.
Pacific Rim Novelization by Alex Irvine
The novelization of Pacific Rim by Alex Irvine is more than just a book based on a movie. This is a book that stands alone by allowing fans to appreciate the literary value not always expressed through film.
Páginas del género en español 2: Mil Inviernos
Una web que me gusta revisar de cuando en cuando es Mil inviernos, una página muy dinámica que constantemente se actualiza y se nutre de todo lo que pasa a su “alrededor”
Introduction to SFF – 4- Slick
After I was introduced to pulp magazines in the 70s and read Isaac Asimov’s stories of his encounters with John Campbell back in the Golden Age, I started seriously looking for science fiction. For one […]
Review: Oblivion
I won’t say it’s the best SF film I’ve seen lately—it’s certainly one of the best-looking, however; but it’s deserving of a second look if you’ve been hoping for a moderately good science fiction film to watch this summer.
Anime roundup 8/16/2013: Take Heart
In this week’s viewing: Hunter x Hunter lays on the foreshadowing, Space Brothers, of all shows, does something mindbogglingly, cringingly offensive, and more!
That Sense of Wonder
One of the things that the best science fiction does is to evoke a sense of wonder in its readers. The best science fiction should open our eyes to possibilities and make us think about our place in the universe, in space or in time.
Review of Fire With Fire by Charles E. Gannon
Fire With Fire is quite good and serves as a nice example of how contemporary science fiction can blend a number of other genres seamlessly into one well-told story.
Úrsula K. Le Guin, o la maravillosa dualidad
Si se considera que la Ciencia Ficción nació de mujer, que Mary Shelley es su madre, entonces puede decirse que la CF moderna es hija de Úrsula K. Le Guin
Review: The Draka Series
The world of the Draka is the dark reflection of our own world. The core idea behind the series is that refugees from British North America settle South Africa (captured in the war) instead of Canada.
Discovering Science Friction: Snark Week 2013
Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives could easily have been made into a Syfy Channel movie (if they’d used lower resolution cameras, thrown in a former 1980s TV star and some cornball music).
Noticias y estrenos 13-8
Número 2 de la Revista del Portal CienciayFiccion Se anuncia la publicación del segundo número de la revista semestral digital gratuíta del Portal Cienciayficción, dedicada enteramente al fabuloso género de la ciencia ficción. Y en esta […]
Shaping History at Gen Con 2013
The summer convention schedule marches on. Already we have sampled the delights of E3 and Comic-Con, and WorldCon looms on the horizon. This weekend another destination convention takes the stage, as Gen Con 2013 gets […]
La ciencia ficción y la ciencia contra la inquisición
*México es un abanico de tradiciones, muchas datan de la época prehispánica antes de la llegada de los españoles, en un mundo gobernado por exóticos dioses y cobijado por la magia y los llamados chamanes, […]
When We Went To the End of the World (Again)
What a difference a punctuation mark–and nearly 40 years–makes.
Fandom Modeling
This is my first column for Amazing Stories on science fiction and fantasy modeling. I will explore, review, and try to keep up with the latest news in plastic modeling relative to subjects that would […]
Review: Errantry, by Elizabeth Hand
Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand Small Beer Press 2012 There’s a phrase used by some in Maine, where Elizabeth Hand lives part of the year, to describe those who aren’t Mainers: they are “from […]
Review: Leviathan Rising by Jonathan Green
Review: Leviathan Rising Leviathan Rising in many ways reminds me of older styles of Science Fiction. It’s a story set in our near future. Mankind has colonized Mars and set up stations asteroid belts, but […]
JOSÉ JOAQUÍN RAMOS -ALFA ERIDIANI- POR M. C. CARPER
José Joaquín Ramos de Francisco – Editor de Alfa Eridiani M. C. Carper para Amazing Stories Magazine: Hola ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus palabras, por favor. J.J.R.F: Hola. Cuando tengo que presentarme siempre digo que […]
low intensity – 3 – M. J. Engh
M.J. Engh can hardly be said to have sailed under the radar. She received the SFWA‘s Author Emeritus award in 2009, and her 1976 novel Arslan was republished in Gollancz‘ SF Masterwork series in 2010. […]
Anime roundup 8/9/2013: The Zero’s Journey
Hunter x Hunter #90 – Nodding to old sf tropes once again, the new Chimera Ant king is after both braaaaaaaains and our women. And he demonstrates how mustache-twirlingly evil he is by killing two […]
Energy vs. Information in Shaping the Future
The pulp era of science fiction was filled with space ships and laser guns, death rays and jet packs, and, of course, flying cars. But for all the prescience of the science fiction greats, none […]
First Contact: First Interests in Science Fiction
Recently a thread passed around on Facebook asked various writers what books mattered to them most when they were young, starting out with an interest in science fiction. One writer said she was reading all […]
Love Thine Enemy: A Review of Interrupt by Jeff Carlson
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. I am crazy about Jeff Carlson’s writing. I even tipped him as my favorite lesser-known SF author in a recent interview here on Amazing Stories. Tying that hangman’s noose a bit tighter, I stated at the time that I thought Carlson’s best work was still ahead of him.
Noticias literatura 6-8
Festival Celsius 232 El pasado fin de semana se celebró con gran éxito el Festival Celsius 232 en la localidad de Avilés, dedicado a la literatura fantástica. En el blog del festival ya se pueden ver […]
No. 20 – Philip K Dick – “Where’s My Head?”
Angst is a modern condition that few of us can escape. How many people, I wonder, wake up each day and ask themselves: “How did I get into this situation? How can I fix my […]
Interview with SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl
Today we are joined by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Grand Master Frederik Pohl. Frederik was one of those wild-eyed youths who through force of will and determination spread science fiction across […]
About Author
R.K. Troughton works as an engineer, developing tomorrow’s high-tech gadgets that protect you from the forces of evil as well as assist your doctor in piecing you back together. His passion for science fiction and fantasy has been fed through decades of consumption. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy screenplays and short stories, and his debut novel is forthcoming. His articles appear every Wednesday morning on Amazing Stories.
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