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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Winners Announced for the 38th Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards for Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests for Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The most plaintive words, across languages, could be "If I could turn back time/the clock". While what the future will bring hangs heavy on most people, and many may not forgo a way to plumb its secrets; while human science has yet to ...

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Sometimes, a casual conversation turns out to be prophetic and stays with you for decades to come. In 2006, I had lunch at the LA World Science Fiction Convention with Eric Flint when the subject of…

In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. It might seem counterintuitive, but there are many books about warfare that take a comedic approach. This is probably rooted in the ...

It was a genuine surprise to get Grantville Gazette VII (The Ring of Fire): I was planning to grab it at some point, but one of my many, many Totally Awesome Readers picked up for me, presumably as a birthday present.  Much obliged: I’ve already started reading it. And if you aren’t reading Eric Flint’s 163x alternate-history series, you should: it’s a lot of fun, and is maybe the most successful shared-world sandbox that I know of. Posted on

(Scribe US 978-1-950354-42-9, $16.00, 240pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, April 6, 2021) Post-apocalyptic SF novel of survivors in the only two city-states left, literally fed only by the suffering they see in graphic footage of perpetual war. [ Black Mirror… Rise & Shine does not shy away from the complex moral terrain of political agency. Carefully, subtly, Allington lets the tension between multiple propositions build: that law and order form a part of collective survival; that ...

A driver who crashed her car while swerving to avoid a couch falling from a truck on Interstate 95 will get a reprieve from the Florida Highway Patrol. Lt. Yanko Reyes told the South Florida SunSentinel that the agency will recommend dismissing the $166 traffic citation that a trooper issued