Top 20 Vampires in Books & Literature
With so many vampires (vampyres) to choose from, you’re bound to find one that tastes just right!
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FutureDaze2: Reprise Review
A review of the second volume of this successful YA anthology series.
Heinlein’s YA Novels From Scribners and Other Things, continued
Heinlein’s YA (Juvenile) work is still generating praise and controversy.
AMAZING PEOPLE In the News: John Dodds Releases The Mechanikals
John Dodd’s latest, a steampunk YA novel, The Mechanikals (Michael Moorcock reads him!)
BOOK REVIEW: “The Alphabet Stones” by Ursula Pflug
A YA fantasy that is for adults and accessible to teens; about a young woman who might be living in two worlds. And if so, are either or both real? Which one?
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 […]
SOME OF THE BEST YA SF EVER: The “Winston YAs” Part II
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.
MOVIE REVIEW: The Hunger Games Part Two: Catching Fire
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that we’re approaching the kind of TV pictured in Robocop or Kornbluth’s The Marching Morons. Whether it’s “I’d buy that for a dollar” or “Would you buy that for a quarter?” there’s a level of “entertainment” in movies and television which I and a bunch of others—I hope you’re one of them, too—don’t find particularly entertaining.
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 […]
Review: Cemetery Girl by Charlaine Harris
Alastair reviews the new graphic novel by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden and Don Kramer
IlluXcon Roundup: Interview with Iris Compiet
The story is about a little princess whose parents want her to marry a prince, but all the princes are just not very interesting to her, they are nice but there’s no spark… and that’s when she falls in love with another princess.
Review: The Colors of Space
In the tradition of Heinlein, The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a provocative space adventure for young adults. But upon closer look, there is a lot more to the story as it becomes a prime example of an archetypical hero’s journey.
Why Doesn’t Science Fiction Care About the Threat of Nuclear Apocalypse Anymore?
Nuclear weapons, of course, are another story. The book you should be reading right now, if you care even a little bit about, er, not getting mushroom-clouded or dying a horrible death from nuclear fallout, is Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser.
Carniculture in Science Fiction and Real Life
Like going on a brewery tour, except at this farm, the vats are full of meat.
Interview with Chad Connell from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Like Twilight and The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments offers something new and exciting for young adults…this series also brings more of an edge to modern fantasy
Broken Claws: When the X-Men Got Boring
This time last year, Marvel’s X-Men were mired in perhaps the most insipid event in their entire forty year history: Avengers vs. X-Men. Its name provides pretty much all of the plot: X-Men fought Avengers, […]
La ciencia ficción no es diversión vacía
Ante todo, deseo saludar educadamente, pues es mi primer escrito para Amazing Stories. Mi intención es hablar de muchos temas, entre los que estarán las reseñas y comentarios de obras de ciencia ficción venezolanas, artículos […]
Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction (Excerpt)
Edited by Hannah Strom-Martin & Erin Underwood Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction includes 33 original short stories and poems that spark the imagination, twist the heart, and make us yearn for the possibilities […]
How Young is a Young Adult?
The science fiction novels I read as a teen weren’t written for that age group. The themes were adult, as were the character dynamics and main issues. There just weren’t enough young adult books to […]
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