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Noticias Literatura 13-7 Resurrected Review: Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville Hugo Novel Ballot Review: Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky Novedades de Julio en Hispanoamérica 1 (2025) Matt’s Reviews: Babayaga by Toby Barlow
Fandom August 29, 2024

Announcing the Debut of Amazing Stories’ Convention Wear Line of Shirts!

Conventions are very special events for Fans…an in-gathering of the clans, a chance to hobnob, to learn, to relax and to have a great time hanging out with “Your People”. And “Your people” won’t have […]

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Review September 26, 2019

Amazing Histories, August 1928: Space Opera Takes Off

Amazing Stories’ most collectible issue, featuring the birth of Space Opera and the origin of Anthony ‘Buck’ Rogers.

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Fantasy May 26, 2017

REVIEWS: THE IMPOSSIBLES (retro) and 9 TALES OF RAFFALON (new!) 

This week Steve jumps back and forth in his reviews. Back to the early part of the century, forward from there to the ‘sixties, and back (forward) to the present! Are you confused? Well, I think we all are at this point.

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Science Fiction February 17, 2017

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!

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Science Fiction February 27, 2015

MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE: AMAZING STORIES’ FIRST YEAR (part 2)

Continuing his series on the first year of Amazing Stories, Steve sees what “scientifiction” was trying to become: US!

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The Princess Bride: Is this a Kissing Book?
Fantasy February 28, 2013

Crossroads: Is this a Kissing Book? SFF’s Relationship with Romance

Whenever I think of speculative fiction’s relationship to romance, I am always reminded of that scene in The Princess Bride where Fred Savage’s character interrupts his grandpa and – voice dripping with scorn – asks: […]

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Chris Gerwel is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Raised in New Jersey, he spent ten years in Central & Eastern Europe in the market research industry, and today when he isn’t reading or writing speculative fiction, he works in the software industry. He lives in northern NJ, with a beautiful wife and a rambunctious puppy, and also writes the weekly blog The King of Elfland’s 2nd Cousin.

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