Today’s The Dailies features an article about the actor Matthew McConoughey (Interstellar, Deadpool & Wolverine, Reign of Fire, Walking On the Moon) has taken the previously unusual step of Trademarking his name, voice, likeness, gestures, […]
Presenting a Workshop Aimed at Professional Writers Working together, Donald Maass and C.C. Finlay have created a workshop for mid-career writers: those novelists who are already creating income from their books, whether they are traditionally or independently […]
N. K. Jemisin, the only author to ever win the Best Novel Hugo Award three years running. Jemisin first won a Hugo in 2016 for her novel The Fifth Season, the first book in her […]
“It has been my lifelong dream to be in that magazine.” When a writer who grew up reading a leading speculative fiction publication said this, my heart went out to them. I understood why they […]
I’ve been reading too many books lately, plus trying to find time to write my next novel (follow me here if you want to see when that comes out), and I haven’t been finding the […]
Publisher’s Notes: There is information regarding ways you can help support Ukrainian fighters at the end of this article. The original article was written by Dmytro Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhenskij, better known by the pseudonym H. […]
Zero, Cecilia. Chica Cafeína. Lima: Alfaguara, 2024. 147 pp. Ilustraciones de Joan Ulloa. Cecilia Zero es una escritora que inició su carrera literaria a temprana edad, dándonos uno de los libros más significativos de las […]
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 […]
El Antropoceno es, sin duda, una era que nos ha revelado el impacto incontrolable del ser humano sobre el planeta. Desde paisajes devastados hasta ecosistemas transformados por nuestras acciones, es un recordatorio brutal de nuestra […]
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 […]
Acabo de leer “Humedades de las orillas” de la escritora peruana Nastia T., recientemente publicado por Pandemonium Editorial, segunda y nueva edición de la versión inicial que vió la luz en Lima en el 2000 […]
I’ve been putting out these reviews for the last 16 months or so, and yes, I have had not quite so blatant, self promotion in my author profile and at the end of most reviews, […]
Sean bienvenidos nuevamente a esta cueva gamer donde escucharán sangrientas historias que podrán inspirar sus más violentas y sagaces musas que impulsen su narrativa por un nuevo camino… uno que lentamente desciende hacia el infierno. […]
Ann Stolinsky of Celestial Echo Press brought this to my attention today on Facebook (thanks Ann): According to (the legitimate) Victoria Strauss of SFWA’s Writer Beware advocacy group, someone is sending out emails impersonating Victoria […]
This time I want to talk about an awesome first-time conference that happened in October in Los Angeles. The second edition of this conference will be in September 2025 and I wanted to write a […]
Sean bienvenidos todos, tomen asiento y diviértanse dentro de esta cueva gamer donde escucharán sangrientas historias que podrán inspirar sus más violentas y sagaces musas que impulsen su narrativa por un nuevo camino… uno […]
No soy la primera en pensar que existe entre la filosofía y la ciencia ficción una articulación esencial. Cuando empecé a dejar de lado el mundo universitario después de mi magíster de filosofía, inyecté en […]
Thank you to David Ulicsak for bringing this to our attention! Steve DavidsonSteve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories. Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even […]
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 […]
Dean thinks it is essential for you to know that – Correction: Oct 1st Writer’s Block FREEDOM I made a mistake on my blog the first night and on the newsletter yesterday, and said the […]
Sur y liminalidad (espacio de transición; umbral; no se está ni en un lugar ni en otro) son dos obsesiones que impulsan nuestras imaginaciones, sueños–o pesadillas–y quehaceres narrativos. Si bien el sur–y su punto más […]
Haré corta la histoira. Como saben pertenezco al colectivo Qhipa Pacha, cuyo objetivo es promover el futurismo andino y amazónico. Pues entre los proyectos que realizan, un e-zine les propuso tener blogs en sus páginas. […]
Editorial Note: A previous version of this post was published to the website with editorial markups. This was not the author’s fault. Those markups have been removed in this version. I don’t often get writer’s […]
There’s so much to speculative fiction that you could write a book about it. And that’s exactly what authors Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan did! In fact, they did it twice. Today they’re here to […]
In the mid to late 1930s the current site of the Hilton Garden Inn in Indianapolis Indiana was known as The Fletcher Trust Building. A stenographer and secretary who worked for the company was a […]
I started reading Science Fiction in the 1960s. I read contemporary works then, but also older works…stories from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. While there was plenty of new SF being published, there was even […]
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 […]
It’s been a bit over 40 years since L. Ron Hubbard began the institution Writers of the Future to “pay forward” his success in writing science fiction. In that time, well over 800 writers (and illustrators!) have won awards, most going on to major careers in the field. This week, Steve reviews the 40th volume in the series. And finds it excellent!
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published Date: March 2013) Pages: 514 ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-3511-5 Author: Hugh Howey Wool By Hugh Howey is the first book in the Silo series. Howey wrote Wool in his spare time […]
James Beamon, Amazing Select’s editor for its No Police = No Future anthology that gathered stories about the future of policing and justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, discusses his work as editor […]
Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
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