Fresh Eyes on Cover Art
if you are an indie author, or a small press publisher, you can’t afford a great cover artist to create bespoke art for your cover.
Demystifying Contracts #4: Agency – Terminating Contracts
Getting out can be harder than getting in – read your contracts!
Alexis Brito Delgado por M. C. Carper
M. C. Carper interviews Alexis Brito Delgado for Amazing Stories.
Book Review: Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre
Keith West reviews your Halloween reading assignment
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part VI (and Final): The Scariest Characters Make the Best Halloween Costumes
The final installment of this year’s Ooky Spooky Animanga series focuses on the best scary animanga character costumes, and how to put them together.
The Wrong Gadgets
Science Fiction is frequently accused of being a genre that’s too much about gadgets. I tend to think that we focus on the wrong gadgets, and that’s why that generalization is made.
Review: The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
There is a lot more to Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man than giant spiders and cats. It is the discovery that the amazing journey of life continues on infinitely, no matter how miniscule we become.
Friday Fanzine – SF Commentary
SF Commentary, an international award winning fanzine from Australia.
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 […]
Movie Review — Is That What Scientology Does to Them?
After Earth – a sci fi film masquerading as a science fiction film
H.R. Giger
Very few artists have had as big an influence on horror illustration and on the look of horror films as had Swiss artist H.R. Giger.
How Not To Host A Website -or- The Further Adventures Of A Twentieth Centure Computer Illiterate In the Twenty-First Century
As late as twenty years ago a fanzine panel at a VCON would draw thirty to forty fen, all curious, many enthusiastic, all appreciative of any sprightly and hilarious tales to be told springing from fanac lore, tradition, and experience. But now…
I stopped participating in convention panels promoting fanzine fandom when the four panelists on the panel outnumbered the audience four-to-one…
Anime roundup 10/25/2013: Step By Step
In this week’s viewing: The shows that will be covered in this discussion column for the rest of the season are chosen! And the others are whined about!
The Club House October 25, 2013
According to both Sam Moskowitz and another fan historian, whom I did know, Jack Speer, the beginnings of fandom were consumed with feuds, bickering, hoaxes, all out wars, and lots of other fun stuff.
And it was fun for most of those that participated.
Drake on Drake’s Equation
I’ve seen our knowledge of exoplanets go from nothing to thousands in less than two decades. I’m optimistic that within the next two we’ll know if there is life out there.
A Review of Flashback by Dan Simmons
This book kicks posterior. It’s a wild turbo-boosted ride through a shockingly plausible dystopia.
Fotos de Fan: Fantastika 2013
Este post tenía que ser originalmente un recuento de todo lo ocurrido en el Swecon de este año, llamado Fantastika 2013
Recap: “The Replacements,” American Horror Story: Coven, Episode 3
American Horror Story is many things: polished, sexy, camp, dark, quippy. The show’s greatest weaknesses, the things that it’s not, include subtle and mature.
Noticias Literatura 23-10
Patrick Rothfuss en España El estadounidense Patrick Rothfuss visitará por primera vez España el próximo mes de noviembre. El autor de “El nombre del viento” y “El temor de un hombre sabio,” de los que se han […]
¿Por qué crear una revista de ciencia ficción?
Why create and publish a science fiction magazine? Why indeed.
LoneStarCon 3 Photos
With my schedule pressing in on me from all sides, I decided this was a good time to share some more photos from the 71st Worldcon. LoneStarCon 3 was filled with amazing fans and dazzling stars. All photos were taken by Shawn McConnell. Hope you enjoy these LoneStarCon 3 photos.
The Originals Isn’t Exactly Original
“The Originals” is just another “Vampire Diaries” set in modern day America with lots of flash backs. It’s interesting because we already know many of the characters, but do we really need another “Vampire Diaries?”
Choosing Your Tense…and Keeping It
Have you taken the time to consider tense in your story?
Reddit SF Writer of the Day – Amazing’s Editor & Publisher
Rough Trade, Steve’s edgy, comedic flash fiction examination of the Fermi Paradox is accompanied by some background of the author and some thoughts on the writing process.
On the Study of the Fantastic, Part II
I was deeply tempted to title this post “Academia for Fun and Profit,” but it seemed a bit misleading as the vast majority of people tend to read “profit” as traditional monetary gain.
Digital Imprints
Publishing. It’s been experiencing a revolution, and for a time, no one was quite sure where it was going…especially for traditional publishers.
iHobby 2013
Every year in October the hobby industry has an exposition for the hobby industry manufacturers to reach the retailing community and show off their new and existing products
Zombies Is Stoopid. Characters Is Too.
Oh Zombies, how do I love thee, let me count the ways…
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