ANOTHER RETRO — STAR SCIENCE FICTION #3
As a follow-up to last week’s column, Steve reviews Star Science Fiction Stories #3. It’s got some good ‘fifties SF in it, although it’s not overall as strong as the previous one.
Sword & Sorcery – What’s In A Name?
Sword & Sorcery has become a term of derision since the 1980s. There are good reasons for this but much of that derision is out of ignorance. The barbarian baby has been thrown out with […]
MY LAST COLUMN: Lisa Mason’s CHROME and F&SF Nov.-Dec. 2019
For his last column of the year and the decade, Steve reviews two excellent items: a new book by Lisa Mason, and the last 2019 F&SF. Both are well worth the read!
TWO FAVOURABLE REVIEWS AND A BLURB
This week Steve takes on a blurb and a book review and a movie review. And he has a good time with all of it! He doesn’t think your mileage will vary much!
The Grand Masters’ Reading List
It would be tough to go wrong with this list of recommended Holiday reads by the Grand Masters of Science Fiction
AMAZING THINGS: William Shatner Talks Cops & Robots Fiction at ORIM
Open Road Integrated Media has put together a collection of space detective tales (where’s Gil ‘the Arm’?) and are promoting it with an interesting video featuring William Shatner, Simon R. Green, Walter Mosley, and Liz Williams, […]
The 72nd Worldcon Voters will Forge History
The Hugos are upon us. RK gives you even more (and better reasons) to join up and vote!
Interview – Jonathan Oliver
Gary Dalkin interviews one of the hardest working editors in the UK – Jonathan Oliver
PAPERBACKS: ACE Doubles, “D-Series,” the “Good Old Stuff”
Ahh nostalgia. For a book series? Certainly, so long as its the tete-beche wonder of the Ace Double. Two books in one! Steve waxes eloquent on a reading experience that is sadly largely forgotten.
Interview with Science Fiction Critic Gary K. Wolfe
An interview with Gary K. Wolfe discussing his work as a reviewer and his opinions about the Science Fiction genre.
Addicted to Science Fiction
Award winning authors discuss how they discovered science fiction.
Bad Science Fiction and Fantasy Art
In order to understand what makes really good science fiction and fantasy art, you have to look at a few pieces of bad science fiction and fantasy art.
Hugo by the Numbers Part 2
Let this serve as your reminder that final ballots for the 2013 Hugo Awards are due today. (07/31/13) With that in mind, I bring you my continued parade of Hugo Award statistics from across the […]
JACK VANCE: VISIONS OF A DYING EARTH
After the last few S&S works of the early 1940s, such as “Dragon Moon” by Henry Kuttner and the short-lived Unknown, Sword & Sorcery lost steam. With Robert E. Howard dead for five or more […]
BLUE PENCILS AND BLOODY SWORDS: EDITORS OF S&S
It’s easy to discuss authors for their contributions are evident. You just have to read the stories. The great editors are harder to corral, for the editor’s job is one of selection, guidance, subjective acts […]
Crossroads: The Western Hero in Speculative Fiction
Someone once said that every story starts with someone either coming to town, or leaving town. And there is no genre for which this adage holds more true than the western. It probably takes us […]
Crossroads: Is this a Kissing Book? SFF’s Relationship with Romance
Whenever I think of speculative fiction’s relationship to romance, I am always reminded of that scene in The Princess Bride where Fred Savage’s character interrupts his grandpa and – voice dripping with scorn – asks: […]
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