Orbit Presents: How to Write Your First SFF Novel
Always wanted to write a SFF novel but don’t know where to start? Want to improve your SFF writing skills? Join Orbit for a one-of-a-kind FREE virtual event series this fall that will take you […]
Amazing Stories Free Fiction Reader’s Choice Award – 2nd Quarter, 2023
Help choose our 2nd Quarter Reader’s Choice winner!
Noah Chinn Reviews: Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer by J. Michael Straczynski
Way back in issue #206, I reviewed Stephen King’s book On Writing. It was perhaps the best crash course on writing I’ve ever read, and the single most influential book on my journey as a […]
Free People Read Freely
When I was invited to the American Library Association’s annual conference in Chicago, I felt dismay. So much of their schedule was focused on book bans and censorship. It’s not like I didn’t expect it. […]
GRRM Writes About The Most Important Issue At Stake During the WGA Strike
“I want to say a few words about what I think is THE most important issue in the current writers’ strike: the so-called “mini rooms”…”
Amazing Stories Free Fiction Quarterly Reader’s Poll
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SFWA Mentorship Program Open
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) Mentorship Committee has announced that the SFWA Career Mentorship Program is now taking applications for mentors and mentees for three-month-long mentorships, set to run June 10 – […]
Deploying the monomyth in Space Opera
One of my personal favorite writers, Charlie Stross, wrote an excellent post about Monomyths and Space Opera a while back. An excerpt of this is below and you can click the link at the end […]
On writing audio – Action sequences – by Julian Simpson
Writing for audio offers a similar relationship to the listener that I imagine a novelist has with the reader: it’s a partnership; you’re not letting people sit back and passively watch something, you are asking […]
Sturgeon Symposium Announced
At CSSF, we celebrate the diverse community of students, scholars, creators, and fans who engage with speculative modes, challenging our conceptions of what is possible. As Octavia Butler writes in Parable of the Sower, “All that […]
REVIEW/PROMO: POLAR STARLIGHT & POLAR BOREALIS
This week Steve talks about two new, FREE, online genre magazines—one featuring sf/f poetry by Canadian poets; the other featuring sf/f poetry and fiction by Canadian writers and poets.
The Best of Short SF from South Africa
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 […]
Profiles in Science Fiction Romance: Author E G Manetti
Veronica Scott for AMAZING STORIES: Today I’m kicking off a new series of author profiles, which will run here periodically. I’ve chosen author E. G. Manetti for my first interview because she’s done an adroit […]
Jack Dann to Deliver Youtube Talk on Writing
Author and anthologist Jack Dann will be discussing writing on the Tuscon Hard-Science SF Channel this coming Saturday
SFWA Market Report – January 2023 – SFWA
Welcome to the January 2023 edition of the SFWA Market Report. The markets included on this list all pay at least $0.08/word in at least one length-category of fiction. For the full list go to […]
ChatGPT will/will not Replace Writers
Prompt: Write an article about ChatGPT and how it will replace human writers ChatGPT is a new natural language processing (NLP) model developed by OpenAI that has the potential to replace human writers in many […]
Help Wanted! Volunteers Apply Within
Great things are coming for AmazingStories.com and we’re also looking for more volunteers to help with writing posts for the site! Amazing Stories is a great place to showcase your writing talent. We’re looking for […]
Disney Isn’t the Only One Not Paying Authors
Magazines pay authors as if they are periodicals, but sell as if they are anthologies.
Susurros en la oscuridad de Carlos Trujillo Ángeles
A profile of horror writer Carlos Trujillo
ENTANGLED PUBLISHING LAUNCHES RED TOWER BOOKS
Entangled Publishing is a 100% women-owned publisher launches new imprint.
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Giving directors free reign might not have been a good idea.
Presentación de Guiños, de Carlos Suchowolski a Cargo de Emilio Gavilanes
Winks, a microstory collection fCarlos Suchowolski, with an exclusive presentation for Amazing Stories by the author Emilio Gavilanes.
Novedades de Junio en Hispanoamérica
Libros Ha salido un nuevo libro de investigación a cargo de nuestro Blogger Iván Rodrigo Mendizábal. Se trata de “Historias desde el futuro: ciencia ficción andina como antropología especulativa”, recientemente publicado por la Universidad Andina […]
Hugo Awards Voter Packet Now Available
Eligible voters can now download the 2021 Hugo Awards Voter Packet
Reseña de libro 1818 Orígenes, Antología de Ciencia Ficción Hispano-Mexicana
1818 Orígenes, antología de ciencia ficción hispano-mexicana Createspace Independent Pub Paperback, 112 páginas ISBN-10 : 1543204872 ISBN-13 : 978-1543204872 Para comprarlo en Amazon. Este libro es una antología de ciencia ficción hispano-mexicana, que ya hace […]
Who Is R. A. Lafferty? And Is He the Best Sci-Fi Writer Ever?
You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways. Source: Who Is R. A. Lafferty? And Is He the Best Sci-Fi Writer Ever? | WIRED
REVIEW: LEXX UNAUTHORIZED & LEXX, Season 1, Episode 1
This week, Steve reviews a book by D.G. Valdron about the cult SF series LEXX, from the late 1990s. He says both book and series are well worth a fan’s attention.
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