Cesar MallorquíHoy charla de Cesar Mallorquí en Vitoria, EspiralVideo del próximo título de “Espiral CF,” Cambio en las bases del Premios UPC de CF 2014, Charla en Vitoria “Escritoras de ciencia ficción” y Revista miNatura 133 “Vampiros” ya disponible.
John Dodds interviews the makers of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, David Langford and John Clute.
An essay on the history and themes of French Science Fiction.
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.
Gary Dalkin reviews the novel that gave the author of Old Man’s War – John Scalzi – his start.
Novedades editoriales, certámenes literarios, webs del género y convención anual de la cf española.
In the latest Scide Spitters series, David Kilman takes a look at the new collection, The Hogben Chronicles, with stories from Henry Kuttner and an introduction by Neil Gaimon.
A look at self-publishing promotional strategies.
Updates on the Ignotus and Minotaur awards and a literary conference covering your favorite subjects in Spanish.
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 […]
A review of the new short story collection from Fabián Álvarez López
Niles Golan is an ex-pat Brit in Hollywood. Never grown-up, he narrates his life with an internal monologue transforming his everyday inadequacies into triumphs. Niles is his own fictional creation: to himself, a genius novelist […]
Ricardo introduces us to some of the latest spanish language releases.
Now there are classic science fiction stories, and then there are classic science fiction stories used by educators to introduce young impressionable readers and writers to the age old argument of science and religion. The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke is THAT kind of story.
A journey down Lugosi lane: a documentary on the famous Dracula star leads to the discovery of Kim Newman’s mashup – Anno Dracula.
This week’s piece covers the remainder of the main ACE Doubles cover artists and illustrators.
Laura delivers a nice roundup of the career and influences of one of our best – C. J. Cherryh
The Kings of Eternity is a novel with one foot happily in the mainstream and one in genre. As such it is a book which may baffle those who don’t ‘get it’; a novel written unapologetically for those of us who have grown-up with genre fiction but have also read and appreciate ‘literary’ fiction.
“Terra Nova 2” con Mariano Villarreal y Felix Linares, Inauguración de la nueva tienda Gigamesh, Presentación de “Gente Muerta” de Juan González Mesa, Crowfunding para reeditar “El señor de la rueda” de Gabriel Bermúdez y XVIII Convocatoria de Calabazas en el Trastero: Aparecidos.
Review of Ronald Delgado’s Ficha La tierra del cielo sin sol.
Tanya profiles the latest spanish language happenings in genre – and announces a change to the ways in which she is presenting her findings.
Gary Dalkin interviews one of the hardest working editors in the UK – Jonathan Oliver
Declaraciones de editor y autores de la colección “2099,” novedades de miNatura y artículo sobre la literatura fantástica española.
Reasons why you should read What Mad World by Fredric Brown, if you haven’t already.
The 2011 movie Real Steel staring Hugh Jackman was inspired by the Richard Matheson 1956 short story titled Steel. A 1963 episode of Twilight Zone was also based on the story. Which cinematic version held true to the story, or would the minds of Hollywood been better off leaving the story to the pages.
The Fictional Man, published by UK imprint Solaris, is based on an impossible conceit, one of those high concept movie-friendly ideas where one aspect of reality is altered from our world but things continue just the same. Absurd, but depending on how well it’s done we buy into it for the duration. Here it is generally very well done. Al Ewing is a breathtakingly clever writer and his conceit is that human cloning was perfected decades ago but then outlawed because everyone is entitled to their own unique identity.
Science Fiction in Ecuador: Tanya profiles a new spanish language contributor to Amazing Stories
Fallece el escritor Juan José Plans; Convocatoria para el “Visiones 2014”; Ediciones Irreverentes presenta la colección 2099.
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.
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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