Publisher: Random House Audio (Books On Tape) Publication date: August 2, 2016 Language: English Disks: 9 Duration: 10 hours 43 minutes ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3627-9 Author: Colson Whitehead Read by: Bahni Turpin The Underground Railroad by Colson […]
Publisher: TURNER PUBLISHING CO (TN) Publication date: 04/01/2010 Copyright Date: 2009 Pages: 344 ISBN: 978-0-470-60203-4 Author: Fred Kaplan 1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan is not a book I would normally review […]
“I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it’s written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary […]
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publish Date: 1969 Copyright Date: 1962 Pages: 434 Author: Richard Hofstadter ISBN (The version I read from the library pre-dated ISBN, but a more recent edition): ISBN13: 9780394703176 ISBN10: 0394703170 Anti-intellectualism […]
Just because history is the most dangerous place to visit doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go. It’s also the most interesting. You just need a guide. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Photos via Wikimedia Commons under […]
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 […]
One of the ways writer Kelly Sue DeConnick is developing the new Captain Marvel is by giving her firm links to the history and culture of women’s aviation. This approach combines the real world and […]
Most of our greatest founding authors got bit by the SF bug when they discovered science fiction magazines – notably those published by Hugo Gernsback
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.
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.
In her debut column, Linnea takes a look at four fantasy series.
Two people stand inside an observatory, staring up at the sky. They have access to a large telescope, but they are not looking through it. The object that has caught their attention is clearly visible […]
I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB by Jacques Tardi is one of those rare books that will stir, teach, and leave you in admiration of those who endured what hopefully, nobody else ever will.
extraterrestrial diseases, chemically-created spectres, man-eating plants, electric deathtraps and people being turned to stone…and it’s ONLY 1927….
The debut of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, and an iconic Frank R. Paul cover.
Two-fer, as Doris dives deep into both the July 1927 issue and the one and only Amazing Stories Annual.
A milestone of publication.
It’s certainly the most influential of all science fiction films, and the most often referenced of all the films in the genre.
The Trailer for the 50th anniversary release of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Roger Ebert’s 1997 review of the film he originally saw in premiere in 1968
Kubrick’s cut has been found, but there will never be a DVD that includes it.
“Films that were being made in an analogue way need to be presented in an analogue way.”
A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films contains arguably the most complete list of movies produced between the earliest silent films to the mid-seventies
Gernsback video kinda sorta almost gets the story straight
In this latest issue, Hugo Gernsback announces that he and his associates have chosen the three contest winners from around 360 entrants
Tribute to Ike and a bit of inside baseball on fanzines
Harry Harrison, Eastercon 1971 and Vincent di Fate, MagicCon, 1992
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