The Ultimate Science Fiction Reading List Part 2
A collection of authors talk about some of their greatest works.
THE CLUB HOUSE 11/29/13
Science Fiction Clubs – many still going strong since 1935! The SF genre has the hardest working (and original) fans in the biz!
Among The Stacks: Wyrd Daze #1
Among The Stacks highlights the written word, in all its forms. This week it looks at an online, subscription-based periodical called Wyrd Daze.
Interview: Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of spontaneous short stories and poems written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey. She is a two-time winner of the […]
Review: Unexplained Fevers, by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Unexplained Fevers brings Snow White, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and others into the present day and/or the real world, making them get MRI’s, buy cars, and putting their images in glossy magazines.
Yoss x Yoss No Siempre Son Cuatross: (Entrevista A José Miguel Sánchez Gómez)
A wild visit with José Miguel “Yoss” Sánchez Gómez
A Fan’s History, Part the Next….
Fan Fahnestalk takes us through dead tree ‘zines, ‘live pixel’ zines, IBM Selectrics, toner feel and more in this personal fan history.
AMAZING News August 11, 2013
Newsletters & Press Releases (See Below for full text) Nightshade Books Fantastic Fiction at KGB SpaceX Awarded Launch CAUSES 100 Great Stories by Women SF Writers (yes, some of them are great and all of […]
Playing the Short Game: How to Sell Your Short Fiction (Part 28)
Cool Stuff That Might Happen (or Not): Awards, Best of Anthologies, Movies Welcome back! This week I’ll be looking at some of the cool things that just might happen to you after you’ve published a […]
AMAZING News 8/4/2013
SPECIAL REPORT Amazing Stories is now selling a limited edition T-shirt. Only 150 copies of this special shirt, featuring the SS Amazing: EXP – 01, designed and illustrated by Duncan Long, will be made available. […]
AMAZING News 7/28/13
NEWSLETTERS & PRESS RELEASES (see below) Michael J. Sullivan’s The Crown Tower Release & pre-lauch offers Ford Street: Flora’s War by Pamela Rushby Duotrope (Markets) Heroes & Heartbreakers INDUSTRY Kickstarter for a Gahan Wilson documentary […]
AMAZING News 7/21/2013
CAUSES 100 Great SF Stories by Women Don’t Travel to Texas If You Do Go to Texas, Stand With Their Women Scalzi on OSC Movie Boycott (Read through to the comments) CRAFT Food in Science […]
Erring On the Side Of Love: A Review of The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente’s new collection teems with floating lanterns and fox spirits, gods and baku and bears and animated calligraphy brushes, all revolving around the recurrent figure of a Western woman dreaming about a country she can never quite reach, even when she’s there.
Amazing News Weekly – 6/23
NEW CONTEST! WIN A COPY OF HAUNTINGS, edited by ELLEN DATLOW Amazing Stories is giving away one copy of Hauntings, edited by Ellen Datlow via a random drawing on July 1, 2013. All you have to do to […]
Review: Come Late to the Love of Birds
Come Late to the Love of Birds, by Sandra Kasturi Tightrope Books, 2012 ISBN 9781926639512 Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer, and editor, as well as co-creator of a kid’s animated TV series. She […]
Reviews: Inhuman / Edible Zoo
Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse by Joshua Gage (Published by The Poet’s Haven – No. 18 in the Poet’s Haven Author Series). OK, imagine yourself witnessing the dawn of a zombie apocalypse, then as […]
Review: Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness
I mentioned Cthulhu Haiku and Other Mythos Madness, edited by Lester Smith (popcorn press) in a previous post, promising to review in full here in the future. The future has arrived. First let me […]
Zero-Magic Fantasy
Zero-magic fantasy is a growing subgenre. But can it ever rise above the level of thought experiment? And what are the tradeoffs?
Finding the Write Time and Place
Look and you will find it—what is unsought will go undetected —Sophocles Finding the Right Time and Place to Write During a time when I had a demanding job as an scientist with […]
Lovers, Killers, Red Riding Hood and Cinderella
Hello folks! And welcome to my little spot on the interwebs. Thanks for joining me! April is National Poetry Month (in the USA). I wish it weren’t always in April. This is a very busy […]
Diggin’ The Crates
There is a term in rap/hip-hop culture called Crate Digging. It means endlessly trawling through classic funk, soul & every other kind of record imaginable, looking for the rarest, choicest samples. The task of any […]
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