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Flights to Impossible Cities Nominated for 2019 Rhysling Awards!
Flights to Impossible Cities nominated for Rhysling Award
Flights to Impossible Cities nominated for Rhysling Award
Doris Sutherland continues her review of Amazing Stories’ early history. including letter column praise for H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space.
“I have tried to get several of my friends to read your magazine by lending out old copies of mine; when their parents find these copies they refuse to let them even finish the stories”
No, tthat’s not a futuristtic opium den on the cover, though the editorial content does dabble in psychology.
Journey back to November 1927, when Hugo Gernsback suggests that some science fiction concepts may become obsolete.
Two people stand inside an observatory, staring up at the sky. They have access to a large telescope, but they are not looking through it. The object that has caught their attention is clearly visible […]
extraterrestrial diseases, chemically-created spectres, man-eating plants, electric deathtraps and people being turned to stone…and it’s ONLY 1927….
Meet Mikko Kuch, Fan. “Inspiration, when it is paired with willing hands and a fully equipped toolbox, leads to great things.”
The debut of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, and an iconic Frank R. Paul cover.
In this week’s viewing: Hakyu Hoshin Engi continues to trim the cast, Megalobox reaches a turning point, and more!
Two-fer, as Doris dives deep into both the July 1927 issue and the one and only Amazing Stories Annual.
An examination of the solar system’s largest volcanic system (Tharsis, on Mars) reveals how oceans could have formed on early Mars. (In other words, Burroughs and his ancient sea beds might have been right.)
In this latest issue, Hugo Gernsback announces that he and his associates have chosen the three contest winners from around 360 entrants
Plots to sue Worldcon, splatterpunk awards, traveling scarves, Nebula nominees, and lots of cats sleeping on lots of SF & F & H.
From Gernsback’s editorial: “The editors of Amazing Stories… are trying their best to keep from this magazine stories that belong rather in the domain of fairy tales than in scientifiction”,
Amazing Stories’ first anniversary issue hits the stands.
A dense, at times brilliant, microscopically-detailed study of the works of J.G. Ballard
Amazing Stories gives up its use of Amazing Stories Bulky Weave paper, Gernsback laments not being able to please 100% of his readers and some of them complain, just a bit, in the letter column.
Solar System Like Earth’s, Star Wars, Asteroid mining, Net Neutrality, Captain Future and more
Time to activate the way-back machine once more as we journey to February 1927 and the latest issue of Amazing Stories!
Taken as a spiritual successor to The Cat and the Canary, Seven Footprints to Satan is not too bad. That said, it is a shame that First National missed the chance to give filmgoers a full-blooded A. Merritt adaptation.
Philip Jose Farmer, early Space Cadets, nuclear armageddon and the Not-Really-Trek vs Trek-that-is-not-Trek battle.
The first issue of Amazing Stories for 1927 features writing by, among others, Murray Leinster and H. G. Wells, as well as the magazine’s first…letters column!
The November 1926 issue of Amazing Stories contained a lot of dark stories, including the conclusion of the serialization of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Imagine George Lucas at the Pearly Gates: would he get into heaven because of his contribution to science fiction, or would he be cast down?
This week Steve jumps back and forth in his reviews. Back to the early part of the century, forward from there to the ‘sixties, and back (forward) to the present! Are you confused? Well, I think we all are at this point.
Giving a nod to greats like Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Yes-Men of Venus is a roller-coaster ride filled with over-the-top ideas and silliness.
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