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
If it Ain’t Broke
Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s better. A look at the drive to remake everything.
AMAZING STORIES’ BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOURS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR
Holiday wishes from us to you.
More NBC Bullshit
Sorry for the NSFW headline folks, but as Lewis Black likes to say, words like that allow “adults to express anger and frustration”. Yesterday the tech, entertainment and business news was all agog over NBC’s […]
The Power of the Written Word.
“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see.” – Joseph Conrad You […]
Knock, Knock, Knocking on Heaven’s Door
It’s been exactly four years since the last time the world was supposed to end. Catch up with all the best end of the world theories here!
Guest Post by Foz Meadows: Unempathic Bipeds of Failure: The Relationship Between Stories and Politics
Owing to recent political developments, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about politics in SFF, not just as a general concept, but in relation to my own history with the genre.
Report on the Bi-Annual SFWA Binary Report
I am often asked the same basic question about SFWA that I am asked about Worldcon: “If you can’t go to the con, why are you buying a supporting membership, just to vote for the […]
Cosplay at Toronto Fan Expo
Ira Nayman makes the argument that cosplayers should be accepted as fans as much as anybody else…but, really, it’s just an excuse to share photos of cosplayers he took at the 2016 Toronto Fan Expo. Shh…
Star Trek Is Fifty – and”OMG! I’m Old Enough To Have Seen the Whole Thing!”
I was a Trekkie before I was a Fan
Hugo Worthiness
Message fic or swashbuckling tales of spaceships and aliens? SF is often both at the same time and how a reader receives it may say more about the reader than the work.
Woman Can’t Be Comedians? Funny You Should Say That…
With no concern for his safety, Ira Nayman wades into the controversy over whether women can be funny, exploring possible reasons for why men are so resistant to the idea.
Do Not Barco Engage Yet, Mister Sulu!
One screen good, three screens better? Not, as Ira Nayman found, in the case of a screening of Star trek: Beyond in Barco Escape.
San Diego Comic Con and the Ungrateful Fanboys
We live in a golden age of science fiction and fantasy as highlighted by San Diego Comic Convention, but all some fanboys know how to do is whine about it.
MY PAL, JERRY SOHL!
Steve reminisces about a writer he used to know. Maybe you know some of the things he’s done: meet Jerry Sohl!
FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY! or Just a Humour Writer in a Science Fiction World
I told my psychiatrist everyone hates humorous SF. He said I was being ridiculous; everyone hasn’t read humorous SF…
Science Fiction After a Fashion
What will we be wearing in the future? Better hope SF is not accurate with its predictions.
Weird and Intriguing: Cat People Score Sounds Remarkably Like Star Wars Score
Music from Cat People, 1942, evokes John Williams’ Star Wars score
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