Amazing Histories, April 1926: The Dawn of Scientifiction
Doris V. Sutherland kicks off a new series, reviewing Amazing Stories – from the beginning!
Doris V. Sutherland kicks off a new series, reviewing Amazing Stories – from the beginning!
Apollo 8: December 25, 1968 (the spirits of another Christmas)
John Glenn was the last surviving member of NASA’s remarkable first group of astronauts, the Mercury 7.
This December marks the end of Amazing Stories first year of publication…90 years later we’re still in the game!
The recently translated graphic novel Pacific from Titan Comics is a bizarre tale that will appeal to the speculative fiction crowd, but fans of historical fiction should take notice too.
In 1960, twenty years before the Space Shuttle, NASA launched another manned, airplane-shaped spacecraft to the fringes of space. Neil Armstrong was one of its pilots.
A look at what’s coming your way from the anime world in October.
Astronaut Mae Jemison has flown in space on both the NASA Space Shuttle and on the Starship Enterprise. And, along the way, she became the first female African American astronaut to travel into orbit.
Anna Fisher is an emergency physician, a Shuttle flight veteran, and the longest serving American astronaut. And one photo of her has gone viral!
On Rhea Seddon’s Space Shuttle flights her training as a medical doctor was pivotal.
News from Ansible…new book…trademarks…all from across the Big Pond!
With the launch of Columbia on July 23, 1999, Eileen Collins became the first woman astronaut assigned Commander of a Space Shuttle mission.
In 1961, 13 exceptionally experienced women aviators performed well in tests developed for NASA astronauts. None of them were selected as astronauts.
Now that summer is winding down a bit, it’s time to start stocking up for winter reading – or – you’re TBR pile is just not tall enough!
Sally Ride was one of the first six women NASA astronauts in 1978. All six made it into space.
ISS Astronaut Captain Samantha Cristoforetti is one of the first women fighter pilots in the Italian Air Force, logging over 500 flight hours on six types of aircraft. She’s also a big SF fan!
Preview of the upcoming crowdfunded anthology
“This magazine was produced in Canada, on Canadian Paper, by Canadians.”
Why was early comic book art so crude? It wasn’t all the artist’s fault….
A Method For Madness, book 5 in the War Against the Chtorr series will soon be released. It’s time to take a look at books 1 thru 4.
Not just scuba divers, but spacewalking astronauts could also experience decompression sickness. i.e. “the bends”
Astronaut Mike Mullane has some insights into the ramifications of the Apollo 1 fire. Also, Gus Grissom was buried at West Point and as a cadet Mike marched in his funeral.
NASA’s “Failure Is Not An Option” culture was born three days after the Apollo 1 fire.
Audio presentation of the 1977 Hugo Awards – including the naming of names
Part 2 of Fanzine review: OPUS #20 Opus (V.2 #7 Whole Number #20) January 1953 Faned: W. Max Keasler Of supreme interest (to me at least) is that this column “The Club House” (which I […]
Before von Braun, before even Goddard, there was Pedro Paulet, the Boy Who Dreamed of the Moon

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