For Steve’s 50th year as a convention fan, he wanted to attend the closest one: Seattle 2025, the 83rd World convention. There is always a lot to do at a Worldcon, like panels, awards, parties, multi-track programming, films, get-togethers with old friends, etc. But Steve didn’t really do any of that. Read the column to find out why.
Dear Reader, Hope you’re well. Sorry for being out of touch. Grief is a peculiarly strange condition. I publish this as an experiment. It is part epistle, part conversation. Everything here is “true” in the […]
It was always Anand’s contention that cross-pollination of ideas with disparate origins resulted in greater understanding. This was not merely a philosophical idea for him but a tenet he lived by. He often wrote in […]
Today we are pleased to announce the release of the Spanish Language version of the Amazing Stories website! Almost from the beginning of the site, we have endeavored to include science fiction voices from across […]
Steven H Silver, author, Fan and occasional contributor to Amazing Stories was asked to edit the Holocaust themed issue of Journey Planet, the Hugo Award winning and multiply nominated collaborative ‘zine published by James Bacon […]
2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down due to enshittification (permalink) It’s been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn’t the first phreak/hacker […]
There have been an awful lot of things falling from the skies this last month from Chinese spy balloons to Unidentified Flying Objects to falling asteroids and comets. So what are we to make of […]
This Anthology is a collection of 50 speculative fiction stories chosen from 1969 to 2019 by Gail Jamieson, long-time editor of the SFFSA clubzine, PROBE, and Gary Kuyper, multiple winners of the Nova competition and […]
Terrified by a war that has no place in the 21st century, the interest in Ukrainian history and culture has risen, including science fiction and fantasy. Writer Volodymyr Arenev and literary critic Mykhailo Nazarenko recently […]
Elevating the story of Pedro Paulet, space pioneer
Diversity can and should also include different story forms and themes drawn from diverse traditions
A message from SFWA’s President, Mary Robinette Kowal: Last year, a member came to SFWA’s Grievance Committee with a problem, which on the surface sounds simple and resolvable. He had written novels and was not […]
Nalo Hopkinson is SFWA’s newest Grand Master
Interstellar anticipated 40 years previously by Colombian author Antonio Mora Vélez
Veronica Scott releases her latest SF Romance – Colony Under Siege: Interstellar Plague
An interview with Japanese author Taiyo Fujii, focusing on the Covid-19 Pandemic
Puppy wannabes are back with their own special take on the George Floyd protests
We know that the dish ran away with the spoon, but who knows what untold, breathtaking adventures they had
“Emergency Library” creates an emergency of infringement.
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Years from now we’ll discover that there is ice everywhere in the solar system
Our theme this week is a shout out to the non-author creatives we collaborate with, or who enrich our lives. I’m going to keep my focus on the author sphere of my life and mention […]
DepositPhoto This week at the SFF Seven, we’re asking: How do you decide your world’s structure of authority and/or governance? The first thing to remember about me is that I imprinted on Andre Norton […]
It’s called Panspermia and it’s not a new theory
RuPaul’s Drag Race is canon in the Marvel universe…
Hanukah socks help astronaut Jessica Meier get into the holiday spirit
.Brilliance of Decade a Than More Offers Backwards Reading Crowley’s John .excerpt this for begged headline The Sorry.
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