ANOTHER RETRO — STAR SCIENCE FICTION #3
As a follow-up to last week’s column, Steve reviews Star Science Fiction Stories #3. It’s got some good ‘fifties SF in it, although it’s not overall as strong as the previous one.
REVIEW: THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION (F&SF) MAY/JUNE 2021
Steve reviews the May/June 2021 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It’s the first one fully edited by Sheree Renée Thomas. Is it good? Read the column and see!
F&SF REVIEW: MAY-JUNE 2020
Steve reviews the May-June issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and finds that it holds treasures for the readers of both science fiction and fantasy!
MY LAST COLUMN: Lisa Mason’s CHROME and F&SF Nov.-Dec. 2019
For his last column of the year and the decade, Steve reviews two excellent items: a new book by Lisa Mason, and the last 2019 F&SF. Both are well worth the read!
TWO FAVOURABLE REVIEWS AND A BLURB
This week Steve takes on a blurb and a book review and a movie review. And he has a good time with all of it! He doesn’t think your mileage will vary much!
La SF et la société de l’information
La société de l’information qui se développe depuis quarante ans transforme radicalement nos vies rendant les vieilles idéologies issues de la société industrielle inadaptées à résoudre bon nombre des problèmes que rencontre aujourd’hui l’occident. Il […]
DOUBLE, DOUBLE, WHAT’S THE TROUBLE?
An all-new follow-up to Steve’s Ace Doubles columns. He’s doubled up with laughter, because he’s doubling his Ace writings!
ACE DOUBLES and AMAZING ILLUSTRATORS PART II (Redux)
For the last of his NaNoWriMo “redux“ columns, Steve finishes his look at Ace Doubles cover illustrators. Nostalgia, indeed! Good old stuff from the Good Old Days!
MAGAZINE REVIEW: F&SF FOR JAN/FEB 2016
The January/February issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF) is under review by Steve, who likes it a lot, even though a couple of the stories kind of depressed him. You will probably like it too!
Small Press Book Review: Tales From Super-Science Fiction
50s redux – Super Science Fiction!
The Grand Masters’ Reading List
It would be tough to go wrong with this list of recommended Holiday reads by the Grand Masters of Science Fiction
Entrevista con Scott Lynch, Autor Nominado al World Fantasy Award
An interview with World Fantasy Award nominee Scott Lynch
Last Flight of the Muses, or: Fates on a Rampage?
Don’t search too hard for a blog post subject, you might end up writing a novel instead!
AMAZING THINGS You Should Know: New F&SF Anthology (Update)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction announces a forth coming Best Of anthology
Asni’s Art Blog: Interview with Tais Teng
Tais Teng is a well established and prolific science fiction and horror writer and illustrator from the Netherlands. He has made several hundred covers and interior illustrations – most notably the Jack Vance e-books. His particular affinity is for the work of H. P. Lovecraft.
SOME OF THE BEST YA SF EVER: The “Winston YAs” Part II
The Winston SF series – part two – in all it’s juvenile glory. Steve has some good info on how to obtain copies, reprints and replacement dust jackets.
SOME OF THE BEST YA SF EVER: The “Winston Juveniles”—Part One
Back in the Good Old (or Bad, depends on your point of view) Days, fiction—especially SF—that was written for a teen audience was called “Juvenile” fiction; I don’t believe any disparagement was meant, or at […]
PAPERBACKS: ACE Doubles, “D-Series,” the “Good Old Stuff”
Ahh nostalgia. For a book series? Certainly, so long as its the tete-beche wonder of the Ace Double. Two books in one! Steve waxes eloquent on a reading experience that is sadly largely forgotten.
Interview with SFWA Grand Master Robert Silverberg
Today we are joined by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Grand Master Robert Silverberg. Mr. Silverberg writes speculative fiction that travels where he wants it to go, pushing aside the traditional limitations with which many writers confine themselves. He has written countless novels and works of short fiction, and his list of non-fiction books is staggering. Mr. Silverberg has been so prolific that his total word count rivals the quantity of stars in the galaxy.
The Winston Science Fiction Series
Paul Cook looks back at an early science fiction influence – the Winston Science Fiction Series.
Introduction to SFF – 3 – Dark they Were, and Golden Eyed
I’d been introduced to the idea of owning my own books pretty young, but as a child in Vienna, I didn’t have much money to buy them – English books were expensive, and I was […]
Low Intensity – 2 – Katie Waitman
Katie Waitman was the Del Rey Discovery of the Year for 1997 with her novel The Merro Tree. Del Rey stopped the series soon after, but if Waitman was the measure of it, I’m not […]
Eric Brown Interview
Eric Brown is the author of over forty books including Helix and Kethani. His latest novel, The Serene Invasion features an eerie conquest of earth that sweeps away the old order without a drop of […]
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