3 Places You Can Download High-Resolution Satellite Images
Three websites make ‘almost real-time’ high resolution satellite imagery freely available.
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!
NEW REVIEWS: WENDIG’S “INVASIVE,” SEPT/OCT F&SF and more!
A Book Review and a Magazine Review and a TV Review and an Exhibition Notice! Whoa! Lots going on in this week’s column by Steve! (And what’s with all the caps?)
Military SF or The Books With the BFG’s
We’re about as far away from Agent J’s Noisy Cricket as you can get….
Asni’s Art Blog: Sputnik
Let’s see if we can throw a ball into space so it stays in orbit, and attach some radio antennae!
Not the Hugos: The Chesley Awards
The Hugos are not the only awards given out at Worldcon. Celebrate the winners of the Chesley Awards.
Review: Wylding Hall Review by Elizabeth Hand
Wylding Hall is a mixed bag, but there is tremendous craft in the novella, and it can certainly be enjoyable to read.
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Station
Space stations are a technological reality, but also a quintessential locus for projecting dreams about a bright technological future which might take humans to the stars.
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Rabbit
I’ve been a bit stuck for a topic, so I punched “space rabbit” into DeviantArt’s search field. This is the result: Enjoy!
Fantasy and Science Fiction Art on the Web
Unlike in the olden days when we had to walk barefoot in the snow, uphill, both ways, to find fantasy art, today there are hundreds, if not thousands of online resources to slake your need.
Transit of the Holidays
As we transit from Christmas to New Years let’s take a look back at some of the images that got left behind.
Asni’s Art Blog: Supernova
The artists who have chosen “Supernova” as their topic, distinctly verge toward the trippy.
Asni’s Art Blog: Black Hole
Black holes represent a deep seated fear of being sucked into the void, propelled out of existence.
All I Ask is a Tall Ship… and a Window Seat!
What good is traveling through space if you can’t look out the window? A spaceship voyage is no good without a window to look out of.
Asni’s Art Blog: Exodus
Desolate cityscapes, future ruins, starships leaving among the debris of decay: one wonders if there is any place left in the universe where these travelers could find a better life?
Asni’s Art Blog: Apocalyptic Space Art
Space art may have started out as a visualization tool for astronomers and physicists, but the artists have turned the scientific concepts into a play with colours and form, which owes more to the abstract painters of the 20th century.
The Artful Collector: Where Are They Now? Spotlight on Artist Fred Gambino
Where’s Fred Gambino? Premiering a new art book at this year’s Worldcon!
GUILLERMO ROMANO – Ilustrador- por M.C.Carper
M.C. Carper interviews fan, illustrator and graphic designer Guillermo Romano.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Amazing Licenses Name To Open Road Brands LLC – Posters & Tintypes Coming
Amazing Stories licenses name to Open Road Brands, LLC
“Most Earth-Like” Planet Found Yet…Again. Get used to it, and enjoy it!
Back in the 1990s I remember reading several articles, concerning different projects, describing how the Hubble Space Telescope had just “discovered a black hole for the first time.” In almost every case it was indirect […]
ACE Doubles and Some Amazing Illustrators Part Two
This week’s piece covers the remainder of the main ACE Doubles cover artists and illustrators.
Exoplanets and the Steady Pace of Established Science
A little history on the discovery of exoplanets from an astronomer who was there at the beginning.
The Eagle and Dan Dare: My First Exposure to SF
Steve takes us through the pages of the historic British comic mag, The Eagle.
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