La collection Anticipation
Fabien Lyraud gives a brief overview of Anticipation, a collection of short novels published by Black River that focused on science fiction written in French.
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Scide Splitters: Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell
Scide Splitters reviews Eric Frank Russell’s classic novel, Next of Kin. A story of one man’s ingenious plan to escape an alien POW camp.
Top 10 Young Adult Books You Need To Read By Fall
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!
Noticias Literatura 27-7
A report on the filming of Game of Thrones in Basque country and an interview with Joe Abercrombie. (Basque country looks pretty GoTy to me!)
Book Review: The Book of Esther by Emily Barton
Golems, Kabbalists and NAZI Germany collide in The Book of Esther
Noticias Literatura 20-7
The latest issues of Helix magazine (interview with Le Guin) and a report on the Malaga presentation
Noticias Literatura 13-7
The con schedule for Celsius 232 and a presentation on Stephen King in Malaga
Book Review: The Big Lie by Julie Mayhew
Napoleon Bonaparte once famously said “history is a set of lies agreed upon;”
Book Review: Fallout by Harry Turtledove
Bombs Away by Harry Turtledove was a good, if flawed, book. That being said, how does its sequel, Fallout, hold up to the original? Our story continues (and maybe skip the next two paragraphs if you haven’t read […]
Scide Splitters: Deep Quarry by John E. Stith
Next year, John Stith will publish his first novel in twenty years. In the meantime, his entire backlist is being reissued starting with Deep Quarry, a SF mystery featuring the wisecracking detective “bug eye” Takent.
Noticias Literatura 29-6
2016’s Minotaur Prize for best novel – “The Last Days of Magic” by Jose Antonio Fideu, is now available.
Review: Moonwalk by H. B. Fyfe
Moonwalk by H. B. Fyfe is science fiction’s short story equivalent of Hemingway’s classic The Old Man and the Sea, minus all of the fanfare and accolades.
Book Review: Bombs Away by Harry Turtledove
Most nuclear war stories usually involve a quick and devastating war where we then follow civilians trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. In Bombs Away, however….
Noticias Literatura 22-6
Legends of the Metaverse, a seriaized story by Ricardo Manzanaro and a new issue of miNatura
Book Review: Showdown City by Todd Berger
…our characters find alcoholic children, rampant inflation, polygamy, universal gun ownership and a bandit who steals everyone’s fine linens.
Novedades de Marzo, Abril y Mayo
New releases and happenings in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and more
Noticias Literatura 15-6
Malaga’s SF boom, a talk on a short SF film and an interview with Yoss, Cuban SF superstar
Anthology Review: Thirty Days Later edited by AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes & Dover Whitecliff
A time-shifting steampunk anthology
A Coordination Game in “The Isolinguals”
Classic SF and Contemporary Popular Culture collide
Noticias Literatura 8-6
The latest issues of Terbium released; an international micro-story contest; several thesis on science fiction published on the Universidad Complutense website and a new novel released.
A Time to Share, a Time to Enjoy – The Closing Ceremony of the 8th Shanghai Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival.
Apple Core closes out its 8th annual (massive) convention.
Scide Splitters: The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams (for Towel Day)
Fans had been waiting for the third Dirk Gently novel for over a decade when Douglas Adams passed away with the novel still unfinished. All we have are precious fragments of what might have been.
Noticias Literatura 25-5
A live presentation of Roberto Garcia Alvarez’s Lovecraft bio; a new release from David Casas
Book Review: The House of Daniel by Harry Turtledove
I was happy to get a chance to read The House of Daniel, a fantasy story about baseball set during the Great Depression.
Noticias Literatura 18-5: Interview with Manuel Benitez Bolorinos, Visions 2016 Story Selections
Relatos seleccionados para la antología Visiones 2016 Reunidas las encargadas de realizar la selección de la antología Visiones 2016, Mª Concepción Regueiro Digón y Lola Robles Moreno, han acordado que los relatos que formarán parte […]
Book Review: The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock
Some might argue I am spoiling The Last Pilot, but it is important to talk about this because Johncock’s description of what parents go through when they lose a child is very realistic.
EBOOKS & MOVIES! A New Storybundle plus 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE and BATTLE PLANET!
Chocolate and bacon, the only things better than cheap eBooks and SF movies! (Okay, there’s sex and alcohol too.) Steve offers you both! (No, not sex and alcohol—ebooks & movies!)
About Author
Steve has been an active fan since the 1970s, when he founded the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association and the more-or-less late MosCon in Pullman, WA and Moscow, ID, though he started reading SF/F in the early-to-mid 1950s, when he was just a sprat. He moved to Canada in 1985 and quickly became involved with Canadian cons, including ConText (’89 and ’81) and VCON. He’s published a couple of books and a number of short stories, and has collaborated with his two-time Aurora-winning wife Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk on a number of art projects. As of this writing he’s the proofreader for R. Graeme Cameron’s Polar Borealis and Polar Starlight publications. He’s been writing for Amazing Stories off and on since the early 1980s. His column can be found on Amazing Stories most Fridays.
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