Personal Best
Gary offers up his own (well-informed) listicle of influential Science Fiction
Artículos Populares de Febrero
February’s popular post round up for our Spanish reading friends
AMAZING NEWS: 10-6-19
October is Meteor Month; skull & bones sugar lumps, black hole may be orbiting our sun, space rocks may be spying on the Earth, Sandford calls for change of name to Clarke Award, Venkman says dogs and cats are living together, reading SF may not make you stupid after all and lots more stuff of biblical proportions this week in Amazing News
The Dark Between the Stars
The Dark Between the Stars is one of those books that grabs you which readers will love.
Man of Two Worlds
Written by Brian Herbert, in collaboration with his gifted father Frank Herbert, this tale first started with a germ of an idea way back in 1983, and was published in 2015. Set in the future, the novel opens with an alien Dreen by the name of Rhyll who, bored with his life and wanting to […]
Star Wars and SF cinema: Where would the genre have gone without it?
You think Star Wars ruined the possibility for “legitimate science fiction” to appear on the big screen? Darren Slade suggests that you think again.
On Ecology, Women and Science Fiction: Part 2, Praxis
Nina Munteanu explores issue surrounding eco-fiction and optimistic science fiction with four female speculative fiction authors and/or publishers.
TWO AVERAGE FILMS: “THE BOY” (2016) and “THE FOREST” (2016)—AND MORE EBOOKS!
Ebooks and more ebooks! Cheap and plentiful; Steve finds them for you! Oh, and Steve reviews two so-so “horror flicks” that should have been better. But that’s what the film industry seems to be offering this week!
Scide Splitters: Infinite Jests edited by Robert Silverberg
Scide Splitters reviews an anthology of dark comedies originally published by the people that brought you such fine car repair manuals as Dune.
Space Princesses: Royalty in Science Fiction
“For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories about the death of kings.” Richard 11, Act 3, Scene 2 Shakespeare knew how to entertain a crowd and teach history at the same time. His plays are rife with kings, queens, dukes, barons and various and sundry other royal personages. His […]
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 13
he 13th inductee into our growing list of The Greatest SF Novels of All TIme!
The Illustrated Dune (or, Why I Hate Sam Weber)
Frank Herbert’s Dune has been a favorite subject for science fiction illustrators for years. Now Sam Weber is about to release a new illustrated edition.
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 12
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time. Kate Wilhelm is one of the cornerstones of the science fiction industry, and many consider this her best work.
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 11
One author gets onto the list a second time!
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 10
A well traveled novel makes its way on to our Best of All Time list.
The Greatest Science Ficition Novels of All Time Part 9
This week we are going back before the science fiction awards were created to find our entry into the list of the greatest science fiction novels of all time. In fact, we are going back before science fiction was science fiction. Science fiction has always been around, but it wasn’t until the 20th Century that […]
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 8
A new inductee into the Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 7
The Greatest SF Novels of ALL TIME list enters new territory!
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 6
RK Troughton continues to assemble a list of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, based on objective measures
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 5
The fifth inductee into Amazing Stories list of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.
The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time Part 4
Dune has now been added to our list of the Greatest SF Novels of All Time!
Noticias literatura 18-6
Ediciones Irreverentes (Irreverent Editions) introduces two science fiction novels & the new issue of Valinor Magazine is available for free download.
Atttack of the Amazing, Spectacular Uncanny Media Tie-ins
Really? They did a comic about that?
Top Ten Best Science Fiction Movie Villains of All Time
The top ten villains to grace the screen.
Review: Try to Remember by Frank Herbert
Try to Remember by Frank Herbert is a fitting finale to the 1969 edition Best of Amazing anthology and a fitting story to represent what is best about Amazing Stories. First published in the October 1961 issue, the novella is one of those stories that makes the reader think.
Introduction to SFF – 7 – Grandmasters
Who are your Grandmasters of Science Fiction?
Great Science Fiction Artists – John Schoenherr
When I was young I purchased most books and magazines in the science fiction field based on their covers. Nowadays that still applies, though much less so since I now know what to look for in a book or in an author–regardless of cover. In fact, there are times when covers don’t matter and I’ll […]
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Recently a documentary had its debut at the Cannes Film Festival called Jodorowsky’s Dune. The documentary by filmmaker Frank Pavich, examines a very early attempt to make a movie based on Frank Herbert’s iconic science fiction novel. Most people know the story of how in 1974, long before Star Wars came along and ushered in […]
