The Coming Death of Commercialized Art
An introductory examination of the impact that deep learning AI technologies will have on the arts.
Classic Science Fiction Theater: Iron Man before Iron Man: Lost Planet Airmen
A rock album this ain’t! What does Starship Troopers have in common with Iron Man and the Rocketeer? Maybe its helmets you can’t really see out of…or maybe its something else
MOVIE REVIEW: BEYOND WHITE SPACE (2018) (Minor spoilers)
Steve reviews a “sci-fi” movie from 2018, which cribs… er, steals… er, is loosely based on Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.”
NEAR-PERFECT MOVIE (Spoilers) REVIEW: ALIENS!
In the first of two columns, Steve deconstructs and reviews James Cameron’s “Aliens,” the first sequel in what proved to be a profitable franchise. What’s he got to say? Read it and find out!
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 8/27/2017
Brian Aldiss, WSFA Small Press Award, ST: TNG, floating rocks (unobtanium?) Starship Troopers sequel, Jay Kay Klein convention photos and the Pixel Scroll
RETRO DAYS: ROBERT A. HEINLEIN and SPIDER ROBINSON
This week, Steve tries to go Back to the Future but ends up in the past, where he meets Spider and Jeanne Robinson as well as Robert and Virginia Heinlein! Come with him and see!
Imágenes de la interculturalidad en Star Trek
Star Trek was the first science fiction television show to deal seriously with multiculturalism and the “other.”
MOVIE REVIEW and a TV Pilot: CHAPPIE, AN UNDERRATED SF MOVIE, and SUPERGIRL
Steve returns with two reviews: a film and a TV pilot. The film’s a good one; the pilot not so much. See what you think!
Review: Crash, by Guy Haley
Who wouldn’t be discombobulated, finding oneself expelled from suspended animation amid the remains of a starship scattered across an alien world?
How Big is a Book?
How big is a book? SF & Fantasy books were slim volumes in wire racks until market forces created the massive tomes we’re used to today. What happened?
MY YEAR IN REVIEW—Looking Backward and Forward!
Steve celebrates his first year of blogging for Amazing Stories online.
Heinlein’s YA Novels From Scribners and Other Things, continued
Heinlein’s YA (Juvenile) work is still generating praise and controversy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S JUVENILES: Are they still good? (Part Two of Three)
Steve posits some similarities between Robert A. Heinlein and Captain America in this continuation of his examination of the RAH “juveniles”.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN’S JUVENILES: Are they still good? (Part One)
I seem to be unable to do single columns about stuff I’m passionate about. Heinlein is no exception. Robert A. Heinlein, who was characterized as the “Dean of Science Fiction,” though he was not necessarily the oldest or the best writer of SF during his lifetime, began his writing career before he went back into […]
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 least we juveniles (except for the “delinquents”) never took it as disparaging. Nowadays teens are called “Young Adults,” and fiction […]
AMAZING News 11-17-13
This past week in entertainment, fandom & more
A Defense of Starship Troopers the Novel (and Why the Film is not Misunderstood)
Comparison of Startrip Troopers novel and film.
The Iron Man Cometh
Welcome internet traveler. I will be stockpiling neatly organized bits into a collective known as a blog along this portion of your journey. Do not fear for your personal safety, as I will take great care to observe the rules of hospitality during your visit. As I am a certifiable Tech Geek, I will spend […]
Will the Real Tony Stark Please Stand Up
Over the past few decades the uber rich have had an increasing influence on our technological future: Peter Diamandis funds various space-oriented X-Prizes, one of which saw the development and successful flight of SpaceShip One. Soon, very soon, SpaceShipTwo will be taking tourists on sub-orbital flights – backed by another billionaire – Sir Richard Branson. […]