Flights to Impossible Cities Nominated for 2019 Rhysling Awards!
Flights to Impossible Cities nominated for Rhysling Award
Amazing Histories, March 1928: Sun and Moon
Doris Sutherland continues her review of Amazing Stories’ early history. including letter column praise for H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space.
Amazing Histories, January 1928: Comets and Catastrophes
“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”
Amazing Histories, December 1927: In the Sky, Under the Sea and Beyond the Infra-Red
No, tthat’s not a futuristtic opium den on the cover, though the editorial content does dabble in psychology.
Amazing Histories, November 1927: Humanity Past and Future
Journey back to November 1927, when Hugo Gernsback suggests that some science fiction concepts may become obsolete.
Amazing Histories, October 1927: Prehistoric Life and Futuristic Crimes
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 […]
Amazing Histories, September 1927: From a Darker Place
extraterrestrial diseases, chemically-created spectres, man-eating plants, electric deathtraps and people being turned to stone…and it’s ONLY 1927….
KICK-STARTER PROJECT: FAN INTERVIEW with MIKKO KUCH
Meet Mikko Kuch, Fan. “Inspiration, when it is paired with willing hands and a fully equipped toolbox, leads to great things.”
Amazing Histories, August 1927: Red Mars and Darkest Africa
The debut of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, and an iconic Frank R. Paul cover.
Anime roundup 6/21/2018: Suicide Ain’t Painless
In this week’s viewing: Hakyu Hoshin Engi continues to trim the cast, Megalobox reaches a turning point, and more!
Amazing Histories, July 1927: An Annual Event
Two-fer, as Doris dives deep into both the July 1927 issue and the one and only Amazing Stories Annual.
Did enormous volcanoes lead to oceans on Mars? – Futurity
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.)
Amazing Histories, June 1927: Prize-Winning Stories
In this latest issue, Hugo Gernsback announces that he and his associates have chosen the three contest winners from around 360 entrants
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 2-25-2018
Plots to sue Worldcon, splatterpunk awards, traveling scarves, Nebula nominees, and lots of cats sleeping on lots of SF & F & H.
Amazing Histories, May 1927: Long Journeys and Short Trips
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 Histories, April 1927: The First Anniversary
Amazing Stories’ first anniversary issue hits the stands.
Book Review: J. G. Ballard (Modern Masters of Science Fiction) by D. Harlan Wilson
A dense, at times brilliant, microscopically-detailed study of the works of J.G. Ballard
Amazing Histories, March 1927: Hidden Worlds
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.
AMAZING NEWS: 12-17-2017
Solar System Like Earth’s, Star Wars, Asteroid mining, Net Neutrality, Captain Future and more
Amazing Histories, February 1927: New Worlds and Human Failings
Time to activate the way-back machine once more as we journey to February 1927 and the latest issue of Amazing Stories!
A. Merritt on Film: Seven Footprints to Satan
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.
Random Things
Philip Jose Farmer, early Space Cadets, nuclear armageddon and the Not-Really-Trek vs Trek-that-is-not-Trek battle.
Amazing Histories, January 1927: Start of a New Year
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!
Amazing Histories, November 1926: Apocalyptic Visions
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.
40 years on, did Star Wars change SF for the better or worse?
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?
REVIEWS: THE IMPOSSIBLES (retro) and 9 TALES OF RAFFALON (new!)
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.
Review: The Yes-Men of Venus by Ron Goulart
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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