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On this day in 1933, my pal Harlan Ellison, one of the most influential speculative-fiction writers of the twentieth century and, was born. Trying to summarize the breadth and inf...
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On this day in 1933, my pal Harlan Ellison, one of the most influential speculative-fiction writers of the twentieth century and, was born. Trying to summarize the breadth and inf...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE “Out of the Sun.” First published in If, February 1958. Collected in The Other Side of the Sky (Harcourt, Brace & Co., hardcover, 1958). Reprinted in The Mammo...
On this day in 1920, Ray Bradbury -- one of the 20th century's most brilliant and prolific authors -- was born in Waukegan, Illinois. And memories of that town -- trolley cars, lak...
Will we allow the intolerable tyranny of rules and regulations to get in the way of progress (and profit)?! The post Five Classic SF Tales of the Nanny State Gone Mad! appeared fir...
(1) ALPHA AND OMEGA MEN. “The Man Who Saw Humanity From Two Billion Years Away” – Olaf Stapledon is profiled in The MIT Press Reader. … Stapledon’s imagination is profuse. He can b...
(1) WAYWARD WORMHOLE WRAPUP. [Item by Cat Rambo.] Thank you to The Wayward Wormhole Barbados attendees. Once in a while, elements come together in a way that creates an epochal shi...
(1) THE VOTES FOR COUNT BINFACE HAVE BEEN COUNTED. “Count Binface gets almost 10,000 votes in Clacton by-election” – BBC says he came in second. Count Binface has enjoyed his best...
(1) ALLOY ALLIES. The Guardian declares: “Bite my shiny metal ass! TV’s all-time top robots”. Surprising no one, ranked right at the bottom is – 20. Twiki (Buck Rogers in the 25th...
(1) HWA DEFENDS VOLUNTEERS. Horror Writers Association Executive Director Maxwell Ian Gold posted an update from the HWA Board on Facebook today. (For context, see yesterday’s post...
(1) MASS BOOK THEFT FOLLOW-UP. L.W. Currey Inc. has sent an additional alert to their customers about the major book theft they suffered. The original report estimated $250,000 wor...
(1) STAYING FROSTY. To explain one of his plot points in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon returns “To the Kelvinator Station” at Tragic Magic. ….I deci...
(1) BREVITY. Ancillary Review of Books presents “Gernsback’s Grandchildren; or, A History Of The Hugo Awards In Seventy Sentences” by William Shaw. “A poem composed of one sentence...
William Shatner. A name that echoes across galaxies as a beacon of sci-fi optimism, he has long since cemented his status as a living legend of the fantastical. But the Star Trek u...
James Ellroy, the boss of concisely-written fast-on-the-draw prose, returns with another slice of relentlessly gripping Los Angeles-based noir. The post Nixon, Hugh Hefner and Bobb...
(1) THE ANSWER, MY FRIEND. Dean Wesley Smith wants readers to know “Why Am I So Negative About Traditional Book Publishing?” …Now, here in 2026, traditional publishing will buy all...
The Onion: The Onion: How did you get into the entertainment industry? Ellison: I remember going to the movies as a kid, and when the houselights went down and that hush fell...
Morlocks? We've got 'em! Because on this day in 1960 in my former stomping grounds of Chicago, Illinois, the citizens of the Windy City enjoyed an exclusive theatrical screening...
(1) UTOPIAN STORYTELLING. Evan considers “Those Who Disbelieve in Omelas” at Papyrus Rampant. …But there’s another interpretation of Omelas. Le Guin doesn’t just give us a picture...
(1) NO GODS, NO MASTERS. [Item by N.] For The Ringer, Helena Hunt wrestles with the gods—or rather, Christopher Nolan’s decision to mostly excise them from his adaptation of The Od...
Read 'Dreamweavers' by Alexander Weinstein right here on io9, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine.
ALDEN NORTON, Editor – Futures Unlimited. Pyramid T-2048; 1st printing, June 1969. Cover art by Peter Bramley. An uneven look at the future, mostly through the past and the eyes of...
By Daniel Dern: I came late to discovering John Crowley’s Engine Summer – the book came out in 1970, during the years I was reading less SF – but it became one of my two favorite S...
(1) READERLESS DIGESTION. Brian Keene’s blog for “8/18/26” ends with a provocative question: …You probably remember how the generative AI companies — to get around pesky authors co...
(1) THE DRIVEL IS IN THE DETAILS. “How Nolan’s Odyssey Departs From Canon” is Camestros Felapton’s attempt to provide the authoritative answer. Firstly, there are no cannons in Nol...
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