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New digs for Uncle, Gerrold wins RAH Award, Chesley gets a new design, new Gunn Center director, more

Centuries after their deaths, an elderly couple emerge from cryonic suspension to find their lives, health – and youth – totally restored. Together, they face the joys and challenges of a second life in the distant future. Shades of Riverworld

OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. The Game Designers  – by Karl Johanson Publisher: Neo-opsis Publishing, Victoria, B.C., Canada , 2021. Cover Art  by Karl Johanson.   Interior Art by Stephanie Ann Johanson. Premise: Are Game Designers better than the rest of us at coping with life after death? Review:  This is […]

Tonight, Paul pops the question to Amanda. Everything is perfect; then suddenly – chaos. Now the couple find themselves stuck between two worlds. Desperate to be free, they try everything they can to escape… Will they succeed?

On the virtues of aged stories

Gizmos cobbled together from frozen foods, possibly dangerous ladybugs, the tragic roots of bad behavior and more in this review of Fusion Fragment magazine

A vast ocean liner points down towards us, its stern in the sky and its prow a short distance from the ground. At first glance an observer might assume that the ship is plummeting from the stratosphere and about to crush the two unfortunate figures standing below. On closer inspection, however, it is revealed that […]

John Dodds reviews an SFnal Groundhog Day.

Sunday, December 27th, at 4 PM EST, Amazing Stories will host an online book release party with the anthology’s editor, James Beamon, and most, if not all of the author’s whose stories appear inside this ground-breaking anthology addressing possible futures of policing and justice. The exact line-up of authors is not yet finalized;  we’ll bring […]

  Proyecto Cthulhu es una antología que reúne a autores hispanoamericanos de Perú, México, Puerto Rico, España y Estados Unidos, quienes muestran una clara influencia y admiración por el maestro del horror cósmico. Algunos de los autores de esta antología son Ángel Isian, Alberto Chimal, Daniel Salvo, Gerardo Lima, Yuliana Cruz, Bern Chamberlain. Un cuento […]

Space Vulture is what science fiction was meant to be. Eye-popping visions of things that might be, woven into a tale of hope, love and redemption. Pure wonder on the page, unencumbered by adult concerns, unfettered by the real world. Filled with truths that are self-evident to the child inside, truths that should remain so even when we grow up.