REVIEW – OCEANUS BY SCOTT OVERTON
A new book, by Canadian writer Scott Overton, is a near-future thriller about first contact (maybe), telepathy, deep-sea habitats, and all sorts of really cool stuff. I think Steve likes it! Read this!
BOOK REVIEW – THE MALEVOLENT SEVEN by Sebastien de Castille
The Malevolent Seven is a dark humourous fantasy that moves very quickly. It’s not terribly deep, but for me it was a quick, fun read. (Bear in mind that my idea of fun is a bit twisted.)
Travels Through the Fourth Dimension
And it’s time time time, and it’s time time time, And it’s time time time that you love, And it’s time time time. ~ Tom Waits Time is an illusion: our naive perception of its […]
The Sky Tree: Upon the Shoulders of Shopping Mall Proprietors
Who stole the future and put a shopping mall in its place? The tallest freestanding tower in the world dominates the Tokyo skyline, but falls far short of touching the stars.
REVIEWS: THE VAMPIRE (1958) & I BURY THE LIVING (1958) *SOME SPOILERS*
After a long, hot summer, Steve returns with two old black-and-white movie reviews. No, wait, the reviews are new… the movies are old! Read it while it’s fresh!
F&SF NOV-DEC 2020 REVIEW
This week Steve reviews the November-December issue of F&SF. It’s also the second-to-last issue that will be edited by C.C. Finlay, who wants to return to writing. It’s a fine issue to end the year on!
“Ecos y cavernas”: la Tierra en el mundo virtual
Alejandro Veintimilla, Ecuadorian writer, has published Echoes and Caverns. 12 stories set in the context of cyberpunk science fiction. Its background is the technological world
WHAT DOES THE WIND BRING? Matt Hughes knows!
Author Matthew Hughes has written a “slipstream” historical novel with fantasy elements. But much of it is true. Is it SF/F? You decide (I already think so!)
CLUBHOUSE: I get inducted into the Canadian SF Hall of Fame! WooHoo!
Fan, editor and publisher R. Graeme Cameron shares his experience of being inducted into the CSFFA’s Hall of Fame
A MIKE MYERS-LESS SHREK and GIBSON’s ALIEN 3 SCRIPT!
Steve likes musical theatre. Steve watched Shrek the Musical. Did Steve like it? Read it and find out. Also, William Gibson writes an illustrated Alien 3 with Johnnie Christmas
Novedades de agosto.
A bilingual anthology, new releases and the latest issues of Fantastico magazine, Fantastic without Borders and an index of articles from LDP magazine
BOOK REVIEWS: ARTIFICIAL CONDITION and WALKAWAY
What effects will really advanced computing, AI, and 3D printing in a post-scarcity society have? Steve wonders if these books can become reality.
2018 SF/F ON TV—MY PERSONAL TAKE
This week Steve gives his personal opinion about TV SF/F. What does he watch and why? See if you watch the same things!
BOOK REVIEWS: ALL SYSTEMS RED and DESTINY NOWHERE
This week, Steve reviews two books: one hard SF, one pretty good zombie book. And wants to wish you all a belated Happy International Women’s Day!
Book Review: AUTONOMOUS (2017)
Steve prepares for a Vancouver visit from Annalee Newitz, whose latest book Autonomous, is reviewed here. He’ll be there, will you?
TESSERACTS, PLUS SCIENCE FICTION AND MUSIC #1: DAVID CROSBY
This week Steve plugs the new Canadian anthology Tesseracts 20 (shameless self-promotion), and interviews famed musician and self-confessed SF buff David Crosby of The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young), and his own group with his son James Raymond.
Estrategias de legitimación de la ciencia ficción en Cuba: estudio de un fracaso.
A discussion of three periods in Cuban science fiction.
CANADIAN AURORA AWARDS: LAST CALL TO VOTE!
This week Steve talks about Canadian SF/F, and those books, stories, and so on, that have been nominated for an Aurora Award this year. Oh, yeah—he’s a nominee too!
REVIEW: Cash Crash Jubilee by Eli K. P. William
Eli K. P. William’s Cash Crash Jubilee is a fun, smart read, a great way to start a trilogy of novels.
UNA DISTOPIA IN EXTREMIS: Entrevista a Ronald Rodríguez Gonzáles
Interview with Ronald Rodríguez Gonzales, a Bolivian cybergrind writer who has created the saga Hyperreality: The Book of Shadows.
Noticias Literatura 21-6
Interviews with authors Dioni Arroyo and Javier Sáchez, who talk about their latest novels.
NEW REVIEW, OLDER MOVIE: TIME LAPSE (2014)
Steve continues to travel in time—at least in his head—by reviewing a movie that came out a couple of years ago. A time-travel movie of a sort. It’s all timey-wimey stuff!
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder: Part 2
The first use of a computer assisted visual element in a major motion picture happened in 1973 with the movie Westworld.
Why Was Early Comic Book Art so Crude? Part 5: The Digital Revolution
Wrapping up the series by talking about a final and really influential technological change, the digital revolution.
FREAKS OF NATURE film review, plus POLAR BOREALIS—a new semiprozine!
This week, Steve reviews the 2015 Horror-humour film “Freaks of Nature” and finds it rather flat, then alerts the media (us!) about a new semi-pro Canadian SF/F e-magazine!
Can you Hear Me, Major Tom?: The Death of David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust has gone back to Mars. Major Tom can’t hear us anymore.
WRITING 101: WHERE DO I SEND THE SF/F BOOK I JUST WROTE?
If you’d love to sell your new book to one of the big SF print publishers, Steve–with a little help from his friends–tells you how to start!
REWIND: Interview with Award-Winning Author Michael Swanwick
Getting back together with Michael Swanwick, Launch Pad Workshop Alum
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!
MY PERSONAL TIME MACHINE (Last Part): Amazing’s First Full Year
Steve finishes his “time machine” with a look at the final three issues of Amazing’s first full year.
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