Revisionist Science Fiction History
How well do you know the history of the creation of the science fiction genre?
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The Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time Part 3
Find out what novel has just been added to the Greatest Fantasy Novels of All Time list
What Got YOU Started?
Most of our greatest founding authors got bit by the SF bug when they discovered science fiction magazines – notably those published by Hugo Gernsback
Space Shuttle First Flights: Mike Mullane (“No Place for Civilians”)
Astronaut Mike Mullane knew Shuttle was an experimental spaceship sitting atop highly volatile explosives. When NASA allowed civilians to ride they were implying it was safe when it was not. Unfortunately, he was right.
Space Princesses: Royalty in Science Fiction
“For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories about the death of kings.” Richard 11, Act 3, Scene 2 Shakespeare knew how to entertain a crowd and teach history at […]
Noticias Literatura: una guía especial a los recursos españoles de ciencia ficción en línea
A roundup of spanish language internet resources
Space Shuttle First Flights: STS-1 (Columbia) The First Orbital Flight
Our Shuttle flight software team had the “distinction” of hearing Walter Cronkite describe, live and on national television, whether we’d done our work correctly.
Historia y fantasía: La Senda del Kharisiri, de Dennis Morales Iriarte
Dennis Morales is a daring and intelligent writer who breaks with the traditional paradigms of narrative.
Amazingly Enough: Lost And Found – Glub, Glub, Glub…
What happened to the city of Mologa…and its inhabitants?
Space Shuttle First Flights: Dick Truly – The Approach and Landing Tests
I had visions of the Space Shuttle Enterprise getting jostled during separation and colliding with the 747’s vertical stabilizer – which would definitely make for a bad day all around.
Excerpt: The IX by Andrew P. Weston (part 2)
Andrew P. Weston has been a regular contributor to Amazing Stories for quite some time now. A former UK Marine, he has retired to the Greek Isles, where, in addition to writing for Amazing and […]
Narrativa fantástica y ciencia ficción en Bolivia en el 2014
Bolivian science fiction – 2014 style
Can There Be Too Much Of A Good Thing?
History Repeats: Marvel & DC strangled the comics publishing industry forty years ago. Are they doing the same to film?
Amazing Stories is Personal: A Bit of History
The history of Amazing Stories is a personal one.
Five Common Mistakes in American Civil War Alternate Histories
We sense a whole new series of Civil War Alt Hists coming down the pike…on the road from Gettysburg
Fannish Resources on the Web: Part 1
The start of an occasional list of online fannish resources
Apollo 8 (Christmas 1968)
The crew of Apollo 8 delivered a special Christmas message from the Moon forty-six years ago this week.
AMAZING PEOPLE: Andrew Weston’s Novel THE IX: Set for January Release by The Perseid Press
Amazing Stories contributor Andrew P Weston’s novel The IX set for January release!
The Birth and Growth of AppleCore – The Largest SFF Fandom in Eastern China
The founding of a Chinese fan organization – Apple Core. The essential idea is to get science fiction and fantasy fans together, providing them the opportunities to learn new things and have fun.
The Most Recommended Novels: Now with 25+% Genre!
David McCandless likes to take numbers and put them together in engaging ways. One of his most recent efforts takes book recommendation data, from sources like Goodreads, the Pullitzer Prize, Oprah’s Reading List and more […]
WHA…? JOHNNY CASH and SF? I FELL INTO A BURNING RING OF…
Steve gets all excited over a shared-universe anthology series. And tells you where to get FREE SF!
Space Shuttle First Flights: John Aaron (“Exceptional” Flight Software)
NASA’s John Aaron set high standards for IBM, and Space Shuttle onboard software came closer to “error-free” than any large, complex software ever built.
Science Fiction Christmas
Since this is my last post before Christmas I feel I should at least acknowledge the holiday season. Not everybody celebrates, true, but in this day and age everybody knows about it. So, Christmas is […]
HAPPY (BELATED?) 85th BIRTHDAY, FANDOM
This month of this year, or this past June, marks the 85th anniversary of the start of science fiction fandom.
Space Shuttle First Flights: John Aaron (Software Failure Is Not An Option)
I met with John Aaron to explain why IBM couldn’t fulfill a Shuttle software contract that required zero errors. His answer changed my mind.
Amazingly Enough: Lost And Found – Absence Makes The Heart…
IN the age of the internet, nothing disappears or gets lost, but some things were never found.
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