Current US Travel Bans and Restrictions
Given the current situation, you may not want to come to the United States. On the other hand, depending upon where you are from, you may not be able to come to the United States. […]
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Noticias Literatura 7-1
Resumen 2025 de “El libro de la semana” en “Literatura Fantástica” Como en años precedentes, la web “Literatura Fantástica comienza enero revisando las estadísticas del Libro de la Semana de 2025 (no confundir con los […]
The (non) Limits Of AI
The Harlan Ellison Facebook Fan Club page brought the following to my attention: a Youtube channel (Ellison.exe) that is using AI to generate likenesses of Ellison speaking Ellison quotes in Ellison’s voice. (If you’ve ever […]
Noticias Literatura 5-12
Fallece el escritor Angel Torres Quesada El escritor Ángel Torres Quesada, falleció el día 30 a los 85 años en Cádiz, donde regentó hasta su cierre la pastelería Orcha, en el centro de la […]
Andrew Liptak Interviews John Scalzi
Andrew Liptak (Transfer Orbit) sat down with Scalzi at the Fletcher Free Library during the Green Mountain Book Festival in Vermont and interviewed him about his career, writing, science fiction, and quite a bit more. […]
Noticias Literatura 29-11
Ya disponibles todos los vídeos de la pasada jornada de la Terbi Ya están disponibles todos los vídeos de la pasada jornada de la Terbi: -La ciencia ficción ya lo predijo, por Ricardo Manzanaro -Los […]
Lets Talk About the Martian Trilogy, Part 2
The recording of the online group conference attended by authors, editors and publishers of The Martian Trilogy – John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction and the Illustrated Feature Section is now available for […]
London Museum of Brands Excursion
It’s been quite a while since I’ve contributed to the cite. Things have been a bit crazy; I won’t bore you with the details. But, I’m back and hopefully will be able to contribute more […]
Leonids Peak Tomorrow & Monday Nights
The Leonid Meteor shower, which has been showering since November 6th (it’s quite clean at this point) will reach peak shower the nights of November 16 and 17, toweling off by November 20th. Assisting the […]
The Martian Trilogy – Meet the Authors Online Meeting
We’ve set up not one but TWO Zoom meetings that will present several members of the team that authored the recently released THE MARTIAN TRILOGY: John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction and the […]
Otherwise Award Accepting Nominations
A reminder that this week is your last chance to recommend novels that (speculatively) address issues of gender (books that “explore or expand” our understanding of this topic) – here: https://otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-otherwise-award/2025-otherwise-award-recommendations But since these are […]
Chinese Astronauts Stranded In Orbit – C.J. Cheeryh Comments
In a post on Facebook, famed Science Fiction author C.J. Cherryh (Downbelow Station, Cyteen, Alliance Rising) posted the following regarding the three Chinese astronauts (Taikonauts) currently stranded in orbit following the impact of space debris […]
Noticias Literatura 9-11
Charla con Víctor Conde sobre su nuevo libro, “Nucleogénesis/Déuteros” Vídeo a través de Rescepto IndaTube de la primera presentación online del canal, charlando con Víctor Conde sobre su nuevo libro, “Nucleogénesis/Déuteros”, de Apache Libros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrcHq_eIgE […]
HACIA LA HISTORIA DE LA HISTORIETA BOLIVIANA
Está en circulación el libro HISTORIA DE LA HISTORIETA BOLIVIANA, 1900-2023, de Reynaldo J. Gonzáles que fue publicado este 2025. Esta obra fue realizada gracias al apoyo del Centro Cultural de España en la ciudad […]
Noticias Literatura 26-9
Ganadores de los premios Ignotus 2025 Ganadores de los premios Ignotus (Los Hugo españoles) Un año más, en la preceptiva gala de los Premios Ignotus de la Hispacón, celebrada este año en Sabadell, se ha […]
Noticias Literatura 19-9
Página dedicada a HISTORIA DE LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN ESPAÑOLA Se ha estrenado página dedicada a HISTORIA DE LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN ESPAÑOLA, de Mariano Villarreal, donde ir recogiendo los principales hitos relacionados con este ensayo: presentaciones, […]
Noticias Literatura 12-9
XXXVII Certamen Literario Alberto Magno de Ciencia Ficción (2025) Certamen literario organizado por la Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología (Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Bases del concurso Podrán optar todos los relatos […]
Noticias Literatura 23-8
Finalistas de los Premios Ignotus y Matilde Horne 2025 Finalistas de los Premios Ignotus (los Premios Hugo españoles) y Matilde Horne 2025 FINALISTAS DE LOS PREMIOS IGNOTUS 2025 Con cierto retraso este año frente a […]
El nuevo terror necesitaba una mano
Empieza otro año con titulares que dicen: “La película de terror del año”. Se lo están atribuyendo a varias, según voy encontrando. Es una tendencia anual y, obviamente, es porque el cine de terror […]
25th Century Five and Dime #14: Philip K. Dick 2025 Bay Area Pilgrimage
July 25-27, 2025 (Join us in Orange County for the 5th International Philip K. Dick Festival at Cal State Fullerton August 20-23rd one week before WorldCon in Anaheim) For this column, I am going to […]
Noticias Literatura 25-7
Novedad: Historia de la ciencia ficción española I. La Era de los Pioneros (1939-1969), de Mariano Villarreal Se anuncia que ya está editado y pronto estará disponible para compra y distribuido por librerías el libro Historia […]
Noticias Literatura 13-7
Novedad: Historia de la ciencia ficción española I. La Era de los Pioneros (1939-1969), de Mariano Villarreal Se anuncia que ya está editado y pronto estará disponible para compra y distribuido por librerías el libro “Historia […]
Noticias Literatura 28-6
Premios Kelvin 505 Se han conocido los Premios Kelvin 505 para lo mejor del 2024 – El Kevin 505 a la mejor novela original en castellano publicada por primera vez en España en 2024 va […]
Noticias Literatura 8-6
Número 26 de “El Tunche” Ya está disponible el nº 26 de El Tunche, publicación de suspense ciencia-ficción y terror, con portada de Paco Zarco, en este número incluye: -Javier Jiménez Barco: El nuevo Coyote […]
Noticias Literatura 24-5
BASES DEL XV CERTAMEN TERBI DE RELATO TEMATICO “TERROR EN EL ESPACIO” BASES DEL XV CERTAMEN TERBI DE RELATO TEMATICO “TERROR EN EL ESPACIO” BASES Anunciamos las bases de la nueva edición, la 15ª, del […]
Noticias Literatura 12-4
Revista Windumanoth 23 Ya en la librería la Windumanoth 23 Entrevistas a P. Djèlí Clark y a Gemma Files, el arte de Álvaro Jiménez, cuentos de Adrian Tchaikovsky, de Rodolfo Martínez, de Víctor Conde y […]
CON REPORT: NORWESCON 47
In three years, the venerable Pacific Northwest’s home convention Norwescon will be half a century old, and we attendees likewise fifty years older. Is it worth it? Dang right, it is! Steve describes what goes on there (except for programming. He missed all that stuff.)
More Addictive Space Adventures
Back in the March of 2023, some of you might remember I completed a review of Velocity Weapon, the first of three books – Velocity Weapon, Catalyst Gate and Chaos Vector – in the Protectorate […]
SF Has A Long History With Bugs: These Films Will Help Set the Stage for TALES OF GALACTIC PEST CONTROL
Amazing Selects just announced a new anthology – Tales of Galactic Pest Control, edited by David Gerrold and Tom Easton – that will be funded by an upcoming crowdfunder real soon now. To help when […]
25th Century Five and Dime #11 Did Jack London write the SF novel of the Era?
Did Jack London write the SF novel of the Second Trump Presidency? One of the benefits of reading early science fiction is seeing the many ways these tales of future reflect the past when they […]
About Author
David Agranoff Grew up in Bloomington, Indiana hanging in the park that inspired this novel. His future wife worked at the Spoon serving the real-life Electric Fred. They have two of his notebooks and a house full of rescued animals. David is a novelist, screenwriter and a Horror and Science Fiction critic. He is the Splatterpunk and Wonderland book award nominated author of 11 books including the novels the WW II Vampire novel – The Last Night to Kill Nazis, and the science fiction novel Goddamn Killing Machines from CLASH BOOKS, The Cli-fi novel Ring of Fire, Punk Rock Ghost Story He co-wrote a novel Nightmare City (with Anthony Trevino) that he likes to pitch as The Wire if Clive Barker and Philip K Dick were on the writing staff. As a critic he has written more than a thousand book reviews on his blog Postcards from a Dying World which has recently become a podcast, featuring interviews with award-winning and bestselling authors such Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu and Josh Malerman. For the last five years David has co-hosted the Dickheads podcast, a deep-dive into the work of Philip K. Dick reviewing his novels in publication order as well as the history of Science Fiction. David’s non-fiction essays have appeared on Tor.com, NeoText and Cemetery Dance. He just finished writing a book, Unfinished PKD on the unpublished fragments and outlines of Philip K. Dick. He lives in San Diego where you can find him hooping in pick-up games and taking too many threes.
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