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Fiction November 21, 2025

BACK TO A FUTURE—Howdershelt’s 3rd World Products (and self-publishing)

This week Steve reviews a series that he spoke about ten years ago; the author recently died, and Steve has taken another look at the series. He thinks you might find it interesting. (You may thank him or curse him depending on how the books hit you.)

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Fantasy January 22, 2016

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!

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Review October 15, 2015

Scide Splitters: Unidentified Funny Objects 4 edited by Alex Shvartsman

Unidentified Funny Objects returns with its fourth annual anthology, this time engaging a theme of dark humor and including stories from the likes of George R. R. Martin, Mike Resnick, Eric Kaplan, Tim Pratt, Piers Anthony, Jody Lynn Nye, Gini Koch, Esther Friesner and more.

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Fiction September 18, 2015

VCON, HOWDERSHELT REVIEW AND MORE ON SELF-PUBLISHING!

This week, Steve hypes his local convention and talks to best-selling ebook writer Ed Howdershelt, plus there’s advice on writing and selling ebooks!

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Review March 4, 2015

Scide Splitters: Infinite Jests edited by Robert Silverberg

Scide Splitters reviews an anthology of dark comedies originally published by the people that brought you such fine car repair manuals as Dune.

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Fiction November 21, 2014

DAYS OF FUTURE NOW: “THE PERIPHERAL” by William Gibson

Steve reviews William Gibson’s significant new SF book and talks about his last non-fiction book. And mentions having lunch with the author.

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Fantasy October 17, 2014

Your Reviewer, Some Modern Urban Fantasy and Some Thoughts on Publishing and Stuff

Steve talks about himself (what an ego!) a new urban fantasy, and other stuff.

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Review September 17, 2014

Scide Splitters: Unidentified Funny Objects 3 edited by Alex Shvartsman

Science fiction and fantasy’s only annual humor anthology returns with stories from Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick, Tim Pratt, Piers Anthony, Kevin J. Anderson, Jody Lynn Nye, and more.

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News August 13, 2014

COVER REVEAL: Piers Anthony’s FIVE PORTRAITS

The latest Xanth novel is one of Piers Anthony’s favorite books. Coming this October from Open Road Media.

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Art October 3, 2013

Bad Science Fiction and Fantasy Art

In order to understand what makes really good science fiction and fantasy art, you have to look at a few pieces of bad science fiction and fantasy art.

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Fandom March 9, 2013

A Blog Horde Interview with C.E. Martin

Welcome to the Amazing Stories BLOG HORDE INTERVIEWS! The ASM Blog Horde is a diverse and wonderful species. I have the privilege of talking with all of them, and I get to share those chats with […]

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