AMAZING STORIES

Welcome to my site for the world’s first, greatest, most enduring and fantastic science fiction magazine that ever was – and will be again. Back in 1926, a man named Hugo Gernsback (you might have heard of him) decided that it was about time to find a home for the new type of stories he [...]

Strange Divisions & Alien Territories The Sub-Genres of Science Fiction Edited by Keith Brooke Contributions by Michael Swanick, Gary Gibson, Alistair Reynolds, Justina Robson, Katherine Asaro, Kate Dolan, John Grant, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, James Lovegrove, Adam Roberts.Keith Brooke, James Patrick Kelly Paul di Filippo. and Tony Ballantyne 2012 222 pages: 12 chapters with forward, contributors [...]

Amped by Daniel H. Wilson Release Date – June 5th 2012 $25.95 270 pages – Doubleday I reviewed Wilson’s first novel – Robopocalypse – last year over on the Crotchety Old Fan site.  And here’s where I must fill you all in on a bit of my review philosophy: I’m much kinder to new writers, [...]

Via HuffingtonPost – All Five Star Trek Captains (Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway and Archer) will be appearing together at a LOndon-based Trek con this coming October. Tickets go on sale April 30th.  You can read the detail here. I’m pleased to see that someone over at Reuters got it right by referencing ‘Trekkies’ rather than [...]

I’ve always been one for coming up with creative ideas – the root ideas, not necessarily fully fleshed out ones. Normally I write them down in a tickler file, saving them for later development, or incorporation with other ideas. Usually they’re concepts for stories, and usually for stories that I’m not yet ready to tackle.  [...]

Norman Spring, who authored the Trek script Doomsday Machine, announced several weeks back that he’d rediscovered another script that was submitted but never filmed. He Walked Among Us was commissioned by Roddenberry as a vehicle for Milton Berle, but was eventually ‘re-written’ by Gene Coon and ended up being unacceptable to Norman, who asked Roddenberry [...]

Today, March 28th, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of Arthur Bertram Chandler’s birth. Born in Aldershot, England, Captain Chandler would grow up to become a merchant seaman, emigrate to Australia and would eventually become that country’s leading science fiction literary light. In 1944, Chandler arrived in New York aboard a merchant vessel he served aboard [...]

Tomorrow, March 23rd, is the Lobby Day of Reason in DC. A creation of the Secular Coalition for America, nearly 300 atheist lobbiests will be meeting with legislators in Washington DC tomorrow and participating in various secular activities through the weekend. You can’t sign up for the march anymore, but you can do other things. [...]

Today at noon my column on Grasping for the Wind goes live. This month I tackle the disappointment that was John Carter, the Disney film vaguely based on Edgar Rice Burrough’s tales of Barsoom – A Princess of Mars and The Gods of Mars. I’ve already reviewed the film, now I take a look at [...]

March 25th, 2012 was a very important date. It was the drop-dead filing date for submitting an “intent to use” statement with the USPTO for the Amazing Stories trademarks (classes 009 for electronic publications and 016 for printed publications). I had two options – either filing a form that provided samples of how I was [...]

Giant Freakin Robot covers Netflix’s possible resurrection of Terra Nova and offers up ten other cancelled shows they suggest would be a better choice. (Considering Terra Nova, I can think of about 100 cancelled shows I’d rather see them do, including My Mother The Car!) GFR also gives you a chance to vote for one [...]