Ten Essential SF Tales: Part 1 – Way Before Shelley
Ten works from ancient history that every science fiction reader should be familiar with.
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Science Anomalies: Books to Think About for Science Fiction Readers
The theory is still a theory, but it suggests that life may have started very early on the earth (and now possibly on Mars because it, too, had ancient volcanoes), and it says that life is constantly being created way down deep in the earth. Or on any planet, moon, or body with an active volcanic core.
A Science Fiction Timeline: Yesterday and Tomorrow
A timeline of the development of science fiction, from one fan’s viewpoint.
Afrocentric Science Fiction Conventions
Black Age of Comics Convention An artist, entrepreneur, author, art therapist, educator, and publisher, Turtel Onli founded the Black Arts Guild (BAG) in 1970, which was based in Chicago. The BAG sponsored art exhibitions and published […]
Fred and Me
“It is rare that someone who you first come to know as an icon becomes a human and a friend, and that is what happened with Fred in the years that I’ve known him
We are a Starfaring Species
It’s a first giant step, perhaps preparing a humongous leap for an entire species.
When Science Fiction IS Science Fiction
It is a profound mistake to interpret the genre of science fiction literally
The Tom Swift Jr. Series
The Tom Swift Jr. books had great, evocative covers, quite pulp-like, and were quick reads.
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: The Command Module Training Simulator
The Apollo astronauts had more than a dozen really cool simulators to train them for a flight to the Moon. I had to learn how to fly one.
Is Science Fiction Fundamentally Retro?
Jaron Lanier says science fiction is fundamentally retro. Is he right? Do SOOPER SPACE ROCKETZZZ run on Ribena?
La ciencia ficción en Bolivia: Resumen histórico
Hasta fines del siglo pasado, no se tenían muchas referencias respecto al desarrollo de la ciencia ficción en Bolivia, y esto condujo a pensar falsamente sobre una carencia de obras de ciencia ficción en el ámbito literario boliviano.
César Vallejo, ¿autor de ciencia ficción?
Si a un peruano cualquiera le piden que nombre al poeta más conocido del Perú, lo más probable es que responda “César Vallejo”.
The Apollo Program, A Personal Journal: Engineer’s Toolkit
To explain to a generation born after PlayStation how we simulated Apollo reentries in 1968, using Stone Age implements and dragging our knuckles, I’ll need to go into a little detail.
Review: 1945 by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
Without Hitler, Nazi Germany doesn’t declare war on the United States; instead, saner men take the helm and use more rational policies to bring the USSR to its knees
The Winston Science Fiction Series
Paul Cook looks back at an early science fiction influence – the Winston Science Fiction Series.
Stuck for a Story Idea? Go Old School. As in Old Testament.
If you really want a character to react in a way that would seem alien, then trap her in an impossible situation with only one way out.
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.
Do Videogames Have to Be Fun: Papers, Please and Monotony
Papers, Please, a game by Lucas Pope for PC and Mac, endeavors to be boring. You’ll spend your hours as a border guard in 1982 Russia analogue Arstotzka, checking and double checking papers…
Úrsula K. Le Guin, o la maravillosa dualidad
Si se considera que la Ciencia Ficción nació de mujer, que Mary Shelley es su madre, entonces puede decirse que la CF moderna es hija de Úrsula K. Le Guin
Review: The Draka Series
The world of the Draka is the dark reflection of our own world. The core idea behind the series is that refugees from British North America settle South Africa (captured in the war) instead of Canada.
Sexual Harassment at Science Conventions: Who Let the Dogs Out?
This is partially in response to K. Ceres Wright’s recent blog entry, “Having a Sexual Harassment Policy is not Enough”, but from an entirely different angle. I think that what’s happening at science fiction conventions […]
La ciencia ficción y la ciencia contra la inquisición
*México es un abanico de tradiciones, muchas datan de la época prehispánica antes de la llegada de los españoles, en un mundo gobernado por exóticos dioses y cobijado por la magia y los llamados chamanes, […]
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