Keep Watching the Skies!
There have been an awful lot of things falling from the skies this last month from Chinese spy balloons to Unidentified Flying Objects to falling asteroids and comets. So what are we to make of […]
Multiverse Madness!
In my recent discussion about time travel I touched on the idea of the branching timelines. It’s an idea that is very attractive. We’ve all thought, at one time or another: “What if I had […]
Travels Through the Fourth Dimension
And it’s time time time, and it’s time time time, And it’s time time time that you love, And it’s time time time. ~ Tom Waits Time is an illusion: our naive perception of its […]
Ciberpunk en “El arca de los sueños” de Cedeño Menéndez
Ivan extols the virtues of emerging Ecuadorian author Richard Cedeño Menéndez. and his El arca de los Sueños (Ministry of Culture and Heritage of Ecuador, 2017) collection.
Retrofuturismo andino en los cuentos de “Cosmonauta” de Revollo Romero
A review of Bolivian author Hugo Revollo’s collection Cosmonaut: Retrofuturist and Fantastic Tales
“Perseidas”, nueva ciencia ficción ecuatoriana
Introducing a new anthology of Ecuadorian SF
As Always on Halloween, we turn to the Master Storyteller, H.G. Wells, for some inspiration
It’s been 121 years since Wells unleashed the Martian invasion on us, and 81 years since Orson Welles made us take to the streets in panic.
“Volver a la piel” de Porcayo: volver a lo sensible
Mexican author Gerardo Horacio Porcayo’s novel, Back to the Skin, evokes Well’s Island of Doctor Moreau.
Pensando la literatura fantástica con Borges
Coverage of a 1967 lecture by Jorge Luis Borges on – “Fantastic Literature”
The War Of the Worlds 121st, 92nd & 81st Anniversaries
It’s been 121 years since Wells unleashed the Martian invasion on us, and 81 years since Orson Welles made us take to the streets in panic.
F&SF 70th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE (SEPT/OCT 2019)!
Steve reviews the 70th Anniversary Issue of F&SF and finds it good. Excellent, in fact. There’s still time to read the issue before the Nov./Dec. one comes out!
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
Profiles in Pulp: The First Science Fiction Magazine(s)
Is Amazing Stories the world’s first science fiction magazine? Yes. Did it get there all on its lonesome? No.
RETRO REVIEW: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
Exploring the fictional Professor Bernard Quatermass, whose experiments lie (as Rod Serling says) “between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge”! Go get some!
Review: Frankenstein Dreams
Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Science Fiction is a gallery of literary wonder edited by Michael Sims
Teatro de ciencia ficción en Ecuador
An overview of Spanish language science fiction theatre, starting with a Spanish language adaptation of Orson Well’s War of the Worlds.
Amazing Histories, January 1927: Start of a New Year
The first issue of Amazing Stories for 1927 features writing by, among others, Murray Leinster and H. G. Wells, as well as the magazine’s first…letters column!
Amazing Histories, December 1926: Moon-Men and Murders
Amazing Stories closes out its first year of publication with excerpts from novels by H. G. Wells and Garrett O. Serviss, and much, much more.
Amazing Histories, November 1926: Apocalyptic Visions
The November 1926 issue of Amazing Stories contained a lot of dark stories, including the conclusion of the serialization of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.
REVIEW: Dangerous Worlds by Brian Herbert
Brian Herbert’s first short story collection, Dangerous Worlds, charts his meteoric progression as a writer.
Book Review: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist is an excellent example of the true magic that happens when literary fiction and genre fiction work together.
Amazing Histories, September 1926: Novel Matters
the sixth issue of Amazing Stories focuses on novel excerpts rather than short stories, but what novel excerpts they are!
Amazing Histories, August 1926: The Mind Electric
A recurring theme in Amazing Stories #5 is the alteration of the human mind.
Amazing Histories, July 1926: Science or Fantasy?
In issue four of Amazing Stories, Hugo Gernsback editorializes about how much science should appear in stories in his magazine; but, does the fiction deliver?
Comic Review: Grimm Tales of Terror
The eerie stories behind the Grimm Tales of Terror comics examine some of the most popular fictional events from film, literature, and anywhere else one might find twisted elements of the imagination.
Amazing Histories, June 1926: World’s End and Wacky Inventions
What strange stories would be put in front of readers of the third issue of Amazing Stories?
TV or NOT TV, IS THAT THE QUESTION? TV Reviews!
Steve watches lots of TV for YOU! He’s trying to save you from bad shows and point you to good shows. That’s how selfless he is. Why else would he put in the hours in front of a lighted box?
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