¿Qué está Pasando en AS? Literatura del Género versus “Mainstream”
Further explorations – and personal experience – with the genre-mainstream divide
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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.
La Estrella Solitaria, Sunday Evening/Special Masquerade Edition
Worldcon’s Daily Newsletter
La Estrella Solitaria LoneStarCon3 Daily Newsletter
Read LSC3’s Daily Newsletter – La Estrella Solitaria – and find out the latest happenings on Worldcon’s very own scandal sheet
AMAZING News August 25, 2013
Conventions, Readings, Scientific Advances, Awards, Trouble Makers and Just Plain Fun Stuff
A Fan’s History, Part the Next….
Fan Fahnestalk takes us through dead tree ‘zines, ‘live pixel’ zines, IBM Selectrics, toner feel and more in this personal fan history.
Nobody Goes It Alone: Best Friends Make Anime Better
This is the story of two little girls. They live down the street from each other, take the bus to school together, and are often mistaken for sisters.
Friday’s Fanzine: Askance 28
Fannish Fridays offers our readers a concentration of content that is squarely focused on fandom. Or, I should say FANDOM. Those people for whom terms like SMoF, Dirty Old Pro, Femmefan, Fen, GAFIA, FIAWOL, FIJAGH, BNA & BNF, not to mention Roscoe, Ghu,Yngve and Smooooth!, DUFF & TAFF are not unfamiliar fanspeak.
Swimming Anime – Not Just Fan Service (Really!)
Back in March, the studio Animation Do released a trailer for a nameless anime about a group of hunky male swimmers. The trailer caught fire on the internet, with folks all over begging for an […]
A Fan’s History — Fanzines, Continued….
Fanzines, continued: Okay, Mr. Smartypants, what’s a “sercon” zine? Actually, I’m glad you asked that question. It’s another of those annoying (well, to an outsider) fannish neologisms and acronyms. In this case, we have “serious” […]
Top Post de Julio en Amazing Stories
El mes pasado hubo de todo un poco en cuanto a los artículos favoritos. He aquí un recuento de los mismos LITERATURA Reseñas: Cedar Sanderson nos hace una reseña de Use Enoung Gun, antología de […]
Interview with SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl
Today we are joined by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Grand Master Frederik Pohl. Frederik was one of those wild-eyed youths who through force of will and determination spread science fiction across […]
Why yes, I’m going to WorldCon by Christopher J Garcia
I love WorldCons, and not just because that’s where the Hugos are given. I’ve been to a few of them, and had a great time at every one of them. This year has some promise […]
There’s Something About Night Vale
If you are a citizen of the internet – and especially if you are a Tumblr user – you have picked up on the recent hype about Commonplace Books’ year-old podcast, “Welcome to Night Vale.” […]
AMAZING News 8/4/2013
SPECIAL REPORT Amazing Stories is now selling a limited edition T-shirt. Only 150 copies of this special shirt, featuring the SS Amazing: EXP – 01, designed and illustrated by Duncan Long, will be made available. […]
A Fan’s History – Fanzines
Fanzines: What the heck is a ‘zine, anyhow? Well, ‘zine (usually abbreviated without the apostrophe) is short for fanzine, which should be self-explanatory. Unless I’m very much mistaken, SF fans were the first ones to […]
BEHÍQUE 2013 6ta edición dedicado a la ciencia-ficción Post-apocalíptica.
Por Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas El Behíque era un representante en la Tierra de la Diosa Atabey[1] en las Antillas, y tenía a cargo las artes religiosas, era además hechicero o brujo y médico. El behíque […]
Doujinshi: Distinctly Japanese
There are many expressions of fandom that cross genres and cultures – fan fiction, fan art, even cosplay. But there is one form in particular that is distinctly Japanese, both in its origin and in […]
SOFACON THIS WEEKEND
Sofacon, StarshipSofa’s first annual international online convention will take place this Sunday. Amazing Stories will be making an appearance when Amazing’s publisher, Steve Davidson, is joined by blogger and author Chris Gerwel to discuss Fandom’s […]
Les articles les plus populaires : fin juin
Littérature: Un article de Michael Sullivan vous expliquera avec de nombreux chiffres à l’appuis que les bénéfices des éditeurs ont augmenté au détriment du revenu des auteurs. Les contrats concernant le livre électroniques sont en […]
Who Got Cultural Studies In My Fandom?
Bendições from Brazil! By the time this post goes live, I will have been in this lovely country for two whole weeks, and will be getting ready to head back Stateside. But being here has […]
There Will Be Girls There: A Few Notes on the Changing Face of Fandom
As I begin writing this, it pains me that such a post is even necessary here in the early years of the twenty-first century, to a group that purportedly celebrates things like the future, science […]
You Might be Interested in This…
I have hardly had time haven’t quite finished the novel I was reading to review, so this is going to be a short post this week. One of the things that’s great about blogging for […]
AMAZING News! July 7th, 2013
APOCALYPSE AVATAR Roger ‘Floating Mountain‘ Dean Sues James ‘I swear I didn’t see it on the Outer Limits‘ Cameron FANDOM 12 Angry Weasels – not a sequel Anti-Harassment Policies – sign up Con Anti-Harassment Project Sexual […]
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Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
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