AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM 3-25-2018
Unsolicited opinion, Kitsch, cats selecting fine literature and much more this week
MAGAZINE REVIEW: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar./Apr. 2018
This week, Steve jumps headlong into a review of the current (Mar/April 2018) Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction! Can it really be that good after all these years? You betcha!
Why Would AI be Hostile?
Suzanne Hagelin, the author of Body Suit, asked this question: “Exactly how WOULD computers behave if they became sentinent?”
AMAZING NEWS: 2-4-2018
Prince Holograms, Black History Month entertainment, dolphins imitating human speech, asteroids making close Earth fly-bys, and The Hugo Awards open for nominations
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
Why the Singularity is Not a Singularity
This series of papers argues that the singularity will never happen – at least not the ways we’ve been imagining it up till now.
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 1-28-18
Tributes to Ursula, awards season really kicking in, and, apparently, science fiction books are a cat’s preferred sleeping surface.
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG’S JUMANJI, AND MORE!
This week Steve tackles Chris van Allsburg’s movies: Jumanji, Zathura, Polar Express, and Jumanji. Wait, did I say Jumanji twice?
Anime roundup 1/18/2018: Good Things Come In Small Packages
In this week’s viewing: Tiny creatures are the best as the season premieres continue.
The Alien Observatory –“It’s Extremely Unlikely That We’ll Find Life At the Same Stage as Earth’s Humans” (WATCH Videos) – The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel
When we discover alien life, will it be microbes or robots?
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 1-14-18
The File starts a new tradition: Cats Sleep on SF, and the pixels just keep scrolling along.
Book Review: AUTONOMOUS (2017)
Steve prepares for a Vancouver visit from Annalee Newitz, whose latest book Autonomous, is reviewed here. He’ll be there, will you?
Book Review: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
An entertaining historical fantasy told through family drama
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!
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 11/26/17
Robbie the Robot gets salvaged, auctioned, sold and loved…plus other stuff
Anime roundup 11/16/2017: Child’s Play
In this week’s viewing: Inuyashiki and Guru-Guru explore parental failure, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness says the Messiah is a very naughty boy, and more!
Anime roundup 11/9/2017: Sea Change
In this week’s viewing: Kino’s Journey shows some range, Hozuki’s Coolheadedness fractures another fairy tale, and more!
New Releases in Science Fiction Romance for Fall
As the temperature drops, you need a good science fiction romance to heat things up. Here are some recent ones, and a collection of short stories that may not be exactly romance, but looks very interesting nonetheless.
Unfair Review (with spoilers): Blade Runner 2049
Do androids dream of electric eyes? Not if they’re Jared Leto’s….
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 10-15-2017
HWA Scholarships, MacArthur Genius Grants, Alma Alexander, Parsec Awards
Anime roundup 10/12/2017: Kicking the Tires
In this week’s viewing: Fall premieres go all out with myth, magic, aliens, and a surprising number of motorcycles.
REVIEW: F&SF SEPT.-OCT. 2017
This week, Steve reviews the Sept./Oct. 2017 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, their 68th anniversary issue. And finds it good to read!
TAINTED LOVE by Jack Strange Based on an original idea by Barny Mukherjee
I had another motive for agreeing: Veshi was charming, good-looking, and preternaturally magnetic. Of course, as an anthropologist I couldn’t get involved with a member of a people I was studying – that would have been unprofessional, to say the least.
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 10-1-2017
Top posts of the past month, Star Wars, Awards, 1989 Hugo Controversy and more pixels than you can shake a scroll at
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 NEWS FROM FANDOM: 9-10-2017
The winner of the third annual Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award is “Wise Child” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.
The award was decided by a public vote among the 15 short stories in Baen Books’ The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Vol. 3, edited by David Afsharirad.
RAISING DAVE by Jack Strange Chapter 14
There were dark stains on the pavement with police tape cordoning them off from pedestrians. I loitered around, trying to come to terms with what I’d done.
AMAZING NEWS: 9=3=2017
David A. Hardy space art, new Lunar probes, impending Jupiter fly-by, pulp publications, Space X, Ben Bova, and much more
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