When Science Fiction is Not Science Fiction
s\Some writers who might have started off in science fiction soon reveal their true selves when they start publishing what they really want to write about.
DOMINGO SANTOS – ESCRITOR Y EDITOR por M. C. CARPER
Domingo Santos – Escritor – autor de Gabriel, Hacedor de Mundos y Volveré ayer entre otros libros – Editor de Nueva Dimensión M.C. Carper para Amazing Stories Magazine: Hola ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus palabras, […]
The Geek Test: What’s Your Score?
I believe people of all types should be able to join in geek events and have fun whether they’re sufficiently geek credentialed or not, but I wondered how one might one go about quantitatively evaluating “geekiness”
Introduction to SFF – 6 – Discovery
One of the joys of reading magazines, as opposed to books, is the thrill of discovery.
Noticias literatura 27-8
Se ha anunciado cuáles son los relatos que integrarán la segunda entrega de la antología “Terra Nova”
A Review of Thunder on the Battlefield Sorcery
This one falls into the school of warriors inherently bad, women inherently good type of story, which I don’t care for any more than I care for the men inherently superior, women inherently inferior story.
Introduction to SFF – 5 – Return to the Pulps
Of course, one of the great things about magazines, as with anthologies, is exactly the unexpected, the little surprises, the unknowns whose work thrills you
REVIEW- The Killing Fields (Legacy #2)
It reminds me of watching the Incredible Hulk when I was growing up. Bill Bixby was awesome, but I wanted to see a green-painted Lou Ferrigno tearing stuff up
Noticias literatura 20-8
Upcoming Spanish language releases in the Fantascy series from Random House Mondadori
Special Report: Science Fiction Publishing and Art in Italy
This Amazing Stories special report interviews several science fiction artist working at Edizioni Della Vigna (Vineyard Publishing). Included are responses to questions from Alessandro Bani, Alexa Cesaroni, and Guiseppe Festino. It’s richly sprinkled with dozens of images that will simply AMAZE you.
A Review of Thunder on the Battlefield: Sword
Sword and sorcery has gone through some lean decades since the boom of the 70s and early 80s, but things have been turning around in recent years
KHRISTO POSHTAKOV – ESCRITOR DE CF por M.C.CARPER
An interview with author, multi-lingual translator and first Chairman of Bulgaria’s SF organization, Khristo Poshtakov of Bulgaria.
Introduction to SFF – 4- Slick
After I was introduced to pulp magazines in the 70s and read Isaac Asimov’s stories of his encounters with John Campbell back in the Golden Age, I started seriously looking for science fiction. For one […]
Review – Falling Over by James Everington
Falling Over is a book about perception, about characters who come to doubt their sense of the reality of the world, whose perceptions are doubled, who extrapolate alternative realities or timelines or encounter, or imagine they encounter, doppelgängers.
Crossroads: The Challenge of Espionage in Speculative Fiction
If spy fiction uses SF/F techniques, then why doesn’t speculative fiction feature more espionage? Perhaps SF/F’s world-building is too much of a good thing, preventing the genre from leveraging tension the way spy fiction does.
JOSÉ JOAQUÍN RAMOS -ALFA ERIDIANI- POR M. C. CARPER
José Joaquín Ramos de Francisco – Editor de Alfa Eridiani M. C. Carper para Amazing Stories Magazine: Hola ¿Quién eres? Preséntate con tus palabras, por favor. J.J.R.F: Hola. Cuando tengo que presentarme siempre digo que […]
A Review of Mad Shadows
Mad Shadows: The Weird Tales of Dorgo the Dowser Joe Bonadonna iUniverse trade paper $19.95 ebook $4.99 Kindle Nook When I first came across this book, the title made me think it might be something […]
Crossroads: Society, World-building, and Estrangement in Spy Fiction
Growing up in a household where the legacy of Communism loomed large (my parents had fled Communist Poland during the ’60s), poison-tipped umbrellas and double-or-triple-agents were regular mealtime conversation. And with no James Bond showing […]
Noticias literatura 6-8
Festival Celsius 232 El pasado fin de semana se celebró con gran éxito el Festival Celsius 232 en la localidad de Avilés, dedicado a la literatura fantástica. En el blog del festival ya se pueden ver […]
A conversation with the Hall of Fame illustrator Murray Tinkelman
This past February I had the great pleasure of speaking with Mr. Murray Tinkelman, the famous and award winning illustrator. This came about by my wanting to do something different for once in the blog. […]
La ciencia ficción no es diversión vacía
Ante todo, deseo saludar educadamente, pues es mi primer escrito para Amazing Stories. Mi intención es hablar de muchos temas, entre los que estarán las reseñas y comentarios de obras de ciencia ficción venezolanas, artículos […]
Three Dangerous Ladies
With a Silken Fist Tom Doolan Ebook only $2.99 Kindle Smashwords Tom Doolan is a short story writer. He’s also a husband, father, full time graduate student, part time employee, and gamer. This means he […]
Introduction to SFF – 3 – Dark they Were, and Golden Eyed
I’d been introduced to the idea of owning my own books pretty young, but as a child in Vienna, I didn’t have much money to buy them – English books were expensive, and I was […]
Crossroads: I Spy, with My Little Eye…Espionage in Speculative Fiction
Hello and welcome to August! I was away for much of July on a “blogging vacation”, and I very much missed you and our ongoing genre mash-up conversation while I was gone. Now that I’m […]
Crossing the Divide Between Science Fiction and Fantasy
There are some people who have clear preferences among their reading genres. Myself, I read more science fiction than fantasy, but there are times when I definitely want the fantasy. Then there’s my dad. He’s […]
Interview with Steve Jackson, author of Fighting Fantasy and the Sorcery! Series
Steve Jackson is one of the biggest names in British fantasy fiction. Along with Ian Livingstone, he was one of the founders of Games Workshop, one of the first major stores selling role-playing games in […]
The Power of Myth in Storytelling
“If a being from another world were to ask you, ‘How can I learn what it’s like to be human?’ a good answer would be, ‘Study mythology.’ ”—Joseph Campbell For Joseph Campbell, perhaps our era’s […]
The Cost of Transformation: A Review of North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
What do you say to a man who’s fresh out of jail, whose wife has been sleeping around and who doesn’t know his daughter anymore? What do you say to a kid living alone with […]
Low Intensity – 1 – Jim Aikin
This will be an occasional series about good writers who either haven’t produced very much book-length speculative fiction, or are, in my opinion, under-appreciated. Jim Aikin is something of a mix of the two categories. […]
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