Galactic Journey Interview: The Time Traveler and His Wife
Visit the Journey’s website. Don’t forget to visit the museum and check out the sidebars!
Visit the Journey’s website. Don’t forget to visit the museum and check out the sidebars!
A certain someone is featured in the latest chapter of Camestros Felapton’s History of the Debarkle
Jason Sanford’s post about the Baen’s Bar forum
Puppy wannabes are back with their own special take on the George Floyd protests
The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science has hit the newsstands.
In this week’s viewing: A few more premieres, and a second look at last week’s standouts.
Bad marks for the season finale of Amazing Stories
Pets in Space is always a good thing, and now, this post has been updated with some cool “space pet” illustrations!
Pets in Space 4, the fourth volume in this series, will debut the first week of October
One of our guest authors has won this year’s Best Fan Writer Hugo Award
Amazing Stories’ publisher’s picks for the 2019 Hugo and Retrospective Hugo Awards.
Want a quick history lesson in the SF genre? Here’s how to get one without having to wade through too much of that old, dated, socially jarring stuff without too much trouble.
A potentially controversial nomination highlights FanFic’s reception by the SF community.
You can’t keep a good kerfuffle down! Notes on how to avoid starting a kerfuffle and related fuffle.
Musk, Hubbard, Halloween asteroids, million dollar math puzzles, Sterling defines SF, TAFF opens for voting, characters get killed off and plants defend themselves!
Power and abuse, space jellyfish, who’s got BDE?, coding Barbie and oh so much more!
Pournelle & Gingrich, all-Female Super Hero movie, Uhura, Justice League, Luke Skywalker, Crows Cleaning Up, Crypto-Coins & Singing Satellites!
Two new anthologies promise lots of great science fiction romance fun.
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I finished reading Christopher Nuttal’s editorial, “A Character Who Happens To Be Black” for the first time, I found myself remembering an oft told story about Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.
This is the primary function of science fiction — to be the Research and Development Division of the Human Species. This literature is the laboratory in which we consider the universe and our place in it. It is the place where we ask, “Who are we and what is our purpose here? What does it mean to be a human being?”
No other genre is as ambitious, no other genre considers as many powerful and disturbing questions. All the other branches of literature are about the past, they’re about how we got here, as if here is a static place. Only science fiction is about the future. Only science fiction is about change.
One of the charges leveled at the Sad Puppies is that they are against ‘diverse’ characters in books (and comics, movies, TV shows, etc.) The people who level these charges are, essentially, accusing the Sad Puppies of racism, that the only reason they could possibly have for objecting to these characters is their race (or gender, or sexuality, or whatever.) It is a fairly obvious rhetorical trap. By asserting that racism is the only reason to object to these characters, they brand the Sad Puppies as racists.
This week, Steve reviews the July-August F&SF, and stumps for your votes (Canadians only!) for the Aurora Awards.
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