After-Action Report: DragonCon 2013, Atlanta, GA
DragonCon is hot, sweaty, tiring, demanding, has endless lines, can feel like a badly-run fire drill – and one of my favorite weekends of all time!
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AMAZING NEWS: 9/22/13
What Would You Expect From Amazing Stories? Amazing News, That’s What!
The Artful Collector: The Best Fantasy Art Show in the World
IlluxCon is the best convention dedicated to sf/f Art in the world, today
HOW NOT TO EDIT A PROGRAM BOOK: OR THE ADVENTURES OF A TWENTIETH CENTURY COMPUTER ILLITERATE AMID THE SPLENDOURS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Want to make sure your contributions arrive on time? Threaten them. Tell them you’ll make up stuff and place their name prominently at the head of the gibberish you’ve concocted. Articles will pour in.
Review – Searching for Ray Bradbury by Steven Paul Leiva
A loving tribute to the memory of one of the most important figures both in the history of our genres and in American popular culture and the literature of the 20th century.
Ten Essential SF Tales: Part 1 – Way Before Shelley
Ten works from ancient history that every science fiction reader should be familiar with.
Witch: The Old Woman
Not all witches are always out to suck a child’s soul – or fatten them up and eat them
A Science Fiction Timeline: Yesterday and Tomorrow
A timeline of the development of science fiction, from one fan’s viewpoint.
Afrocentric Science Fiction Conventions
Black Age of Comics Convention An artist, entrepreneur, author, art therapist, educator, and publisher, Turtel Onli founded the Black Arts Guild (BAG) in 1970, which was based in Chicago. The BAG sponsored art exhibitions and published […]
Characters: Zinzi December from Zoo City
As far as main characters go, Zinzi’s got a lot of problems before the book even starts.
ABSOLUTE ZERO Cool Websites – Very Cool
Very Cool websites you should visit – after reading Amazing Stories
“Will people be in costume?” How mainstream media sees SF fans.
Maybe it’s time for fans to relax about how the mainstream media sees us. We do sort of rule the world.
Website Review: Star Wars dot com
For fans of classic space opera, one of the most iconic movie franchises ever produced in the genre is arguably that of the Star Wars saga. Not surprisingly, one of the most informative sites on the web pertaining to all that is Star Wars is the aptly named www.starwars.com.
Fred and Me
“It is rare that someone who you first come to know as an icon becomes a human and a friend, and that is what happened with Fred in the years that I’ve known him
We are a Starfaring Species
It’s a first giant step, perhaps preparing a humongous leap for an entire species.
¿Qué está Pasando en AS? Literatura del Género versus “Mainstream”
Further explorations – and personal experience – with the genre-mainstream divide
Carniculture in Science Fiction and Real Life
Like going on a brewery tour, except at this farm, the vats are full of meat.
James Tiptree Jr. / Alice Sheldon: Acerca de la identidad de género
A discussion of women in SF and their progress or lack thereof over the course of the past half-century.
More Women in Science Fiction
Profiles of women science fiction authors – including the mother of it all, Mary Shelley.
Animanga: Surprisingly Not A Man’s World
I am glad that I’ve never had to defend myself and what I love because of something so trivial as my gender expression. I can only hope that the entirety of fandom can grow to this point and further as dialogues surrounding hobbies and sexism continue to spring forth.
A Farewell To My Caped Crusader: An Ode to Batwoman
Saying goodbye to good friends is one of the hardest things to go through – and sometimes it can be even harder when they’re not even real.
The Language of Scandal: Why Do Speculative Fiction Writers Love Disgusting Scatological Insults?
Why has this man been labelled “a poo-flinging chimp,” among other, less printable things? I have an idea or two (a rare occurrence, I know, I know).
Shameless Self Promotion: “Metropolis” exhibition in Wellington
For being such an eclectic bunch of people, the exhibition seems surprizingly congruent, and everyone’s work looks pretty fab
Noticias Literatura
La web “Ficción Científica” cumple un año y , para celebrarlo, ha editado un ebook gratuito, titulado “Ellos son el futuro”
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