Interview with Hall of Fame Author Kate Wilhelm
An interview with award winning author and leading lady of science fiction, Kate Wilhelm
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Reporte del I Congreso Internacional de Narrativa Fantástica
A report on 2014’s International Congress of Fantastic Fiction, help in Lima Peru
Scide Splitters: The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
Now largely forgotten, Thorne Smith was possibly the wittiest writer of the fantastic in the 1920s & 1930s.
I Congreso Internacional de Narrativa Fantástica – Perú
A report on and a photo gallery from the VII International Colloquium for Fiction Fantastic held at the Center for Literary Studies Antonio Cornejo Polar Lima – Peru
OUR HALLOWEEN TRADITION
Continuing a Halloween tradition – the airing of Mercury Theater’s production of The War of the Worlds
Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe – Designed & Illustrated by Duncan Long
For Halloween, we present this beautifully rendered, illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Eleonora, by Duncan LOng
Marvel Comics “Worlds Unknown” of Known Science Fiction, or: A Good Idea Gone Flopnik?
What’s not to like? You got your alien monster, your alien ruins, your sophisticated space science gizmos, your overall 1950s retro look and art style. Perfect. Exactly what I want in SF comic art, or “graphic art” as they say nowadays.
Post Populares de Septiembre
A summary for our spanish speaking friends of our most popular items from September
ABSOLUTE ZERO: Cool Websites: Toys
Ahh nostalgia. Nothing brings back childhood memories like re-connecting with a long-loved toy.
Scide Splitters: The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell
Scide Splitters reviews Eric Frank Russell’s hilarious classic, The Great Explosion – possibly the funniest libertarian science fiction novel ever written.
Spooky London
Ever since Count Dracula arrived in London aboard the Demeter, London has been a spooky place.
Review: The ACME Catalog
The ACME Catalog by Charles Carney is presented as a realistic brochure selling fantastic ideas. For those who wanted to see the coyote to win, it is a bible.
AMAZING RELEASES: Amazing Stories Classics Presents SEEDS OF LIFE by John Taine
AMAZING STORIES CLASSICS PRESENTS SEEDS OF LIFE: A Novel of Evolution’s Fires Amazing Stories Classics is proud to bring this landmark novel from the pages of the Amazing Stories Quarterly Oct 1931 (Fall issue) —with […]
Into the Comet by Arthur C. Clarke
Into the Comet by Arthur C. Clarke is one of the writer’s many short story looks at futuristic problems where the solutions may come from the most basic of means.
Interview with SFWA Grand Master Harlan Ellison®
An exclusive interview with one of the genre’s greats, Harlan Ellison. Influential, ground-breaking, cantankerous, problematic, loyal-to-a-fault and a genius behind the typer, perhaps the most accurate thing one can say is that there is no other like him.
Retrospective – Spielberg & Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence
In 2001 I wrote that A.I. was more successful as a fable that as pure SF, a film to be seen and argued over, which in the current climate of mindless special effects dominated action fodder made it easy to over-rate.
Review: New Life and New Civilizations (ed.) Joseph F. Berenato
The history of Star Trek comics. (We’ve got one coming that’s not in the book!)
AMAZING THINGS: Introducing AMAZING STORIES CLASSICS!
Futures Past Editions unveils AMAZING STORIES CLASSICS!
CLASSIC SF MOVIES #2: George Pal’s Destination Moon
Steve reviews a seminal classic: Destination Moon, the first Hollywood SF blockbuster that respected both science and science fiction.
Focus on LOCUS, or: The Fannish Beginnings of an Industry Standard SF Genre Newszine.
Examining a fannish institution: Charles N. Brown is gone, but Locus a newszine “covering the science fiction field,” remains the definitive industry trade magazine for the SF&F genre, an absolute must read for authors, editors, publishers, reviewers, and all fen
Time Out’s ‘100 Best Sci-Fi Films’
This week the UK London listings and entertainment guide Time Out published part of an on-going series of genre by genre features on the 100 Best Films. The current one is ‘The 100 best sci-fi movies’. Gary Dalkin takes a look…
The Road to Middle-Earth by Tom Shippey
The Road to Middle-Earth is a wonderful companion to any trip across Middle-earth and it is a welcome reminder of the huge craft that J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his work.
Top 20 Vampires in Books & Literature
With so many vampires (vampyres) to choose from, you’re bound to find one that tastes just right!
Retrospective: A Minority Verdict Against Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
Upon release in 2002 the film Minority Report, nominally based on a story by Philip K. Dick, received almost universally ecstatic reviews. I was among the minority of dissenting voices, and what follows, my minority retort
‘The Birds Is Coming’ (Again) and Rebecca Too
Considering the forthcoming new film adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds and Rebecca, and the shadow of Alfred Hitchcock…
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