Anime roundup 3/7/2016: Pass the Idiot Ball
In this week’s viewing: Active Raid gets a lot of entertainment out of a stupid villain, ERASED gets it from a less-than-intelligent hero, and more!
In this week’s viewing: Active Raid gets a lot of entertainment out of a stupid villain, ERASED gets it from a less-than-intelligent hero, and more!
Two long running, popular comic series from France.
Steve takes a look back at 1952, and the first issue of “IF Worlds of Science Fiction”–plus a word of advice for newer writers from Chuck Wendig (link) and some personal news.
Today…Today we choose to read this post, not because it is easy but because it is fun! We choose to read this post and the other things on Amazing because this challenge is one we choose to accept!
Wow! What kind of an excerpt can you write after that title?
Those of us who like genre tales know that the boldest and most intelligent story-tellers often deal in SF and fantasy. In Hollywood today, many of them also work in animation.
In this week’s viewing: ERASED and Iron-Blooded Orphans are in a race to see who can give away the plot first, and more!
A very enjoyable and original group of tales
Conspiracy – An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories from NESFA Press will have you rethinking what you know and doubting what you think you know.
A Shanghai museum engages with the imagination.
Devil or Angel is a highly enjoyable read with a lot of solid writing…and some confounding problems.
In this week’s viewing: ERASED ratchets up the mystery and tension, Active Raid develops a worrying pattern, and more!
It was August 29, 2334, three hundred years after the meteorite slammed into Earth and decimated the planet and the population.
An excellent romp in a watery world with much to discover.
This week, Steve travels into the future with John Whalen’s “Space Western,” and into the past with Stephen King’s novel about events surrounding John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Both future and past hold our interest!
Notes on the SFR Galaxy award and some thoughts on SF Romance’s future.
In this week’s viewing: Iron-Blooded Orphans announces that it’s officially time to be awesome, BBK/BRNK and Active Raid agree, and more!
This week Steve reviews the new March/April issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), and talks about a postage stamp series that never came about, honouring SF writers, and the reasons behind it.
We’re about as far away from Agent J’s Noisy Cricket as you can get….
Veronica goes down under for the down low on Australian SFR
There’s something almost religious about this phenomenon – the knowledge that there was a select group of disciples to whom the truth had been revealed.
In this week’s viewing: A lot of variety, from an infodump in Utawarerumono to an epic battle in Iron-Blooded Orphans, and more!
From page one, readers will quickly realize that the new comic Spook written by Joshua Starnes with artwork by Lisandro Estherren is not your ordinary funny book.
Who doesn’t love a lovable bunch of losers who must save the Earth?
An excellent summary of Science Fiction in China, 2015
Shaoyan Hu is a part-time translator for speculative fictions. He has worked together with other translators to render A Song of Ice and Fire series into Chinese language. His other translation works in Chinese language include Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge, The Scar by China Miéville, and The City & the City by China Miéville. There are also a number of short stories, novelettes and novellas translated by Shaoyan that appeared in various SF&F magazines in China.
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