The 2017 “Inclusion” Theme Begins: Announcements, Details, and Guest/Author Calls
2017 has arrived. It’s a thing. It’s happening. And it’s not the year many of us hoped for. When we first set out to create a theme for 2017, we didn’t know that it would become something more than a broad gesture about what we believe is crucial to the continued significance of science fiction […]
2017 Awards Season (Hugos, etc.): All the Eligible Things from a Year of Skiffy and Fanty!
Last year, we were honored to have many incredible authors, bloggers, and others, either on the show or posting guest blog posts on our page and we love being able to share their work with you. Many of our guests and our members are eligible for awards so we hope you’ll take a minute to […]
New Digs: Transcripts of Podcast Episodes!
In an effort to make our podcast more accessible, Jen has kindly offered to transcribe some of our episodes for those who cannot listen to podcasts or prefer the written format. The following episodes have officially been transcribed: 2017: Episode 313: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Anticipating 2017 2016: Episode 301: An Interview w/ David D. […]
Retro Childhood Review: The Neverending Story
Bastian Balthazar Bux’s passion was books. If you’ve never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger — If you’ve never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well meaning person has switched off […]
Book Review: Galactic Empires, edited by Neil Clarke
In the 1970s Brian Aldiss published a seminal anthology of SF stories. Called Galactic Empires, it was a two-volume set of over two dozen stories set in such realms, with authors ranging from Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Poul Anderson to A.E. Van Vogt and Clifford Simak. The age of the stories spanned from […]
Torture Cinema Poll: The first of 2017!
Well, we haven’t done as much Torture in the last year, because we were too busy watching good movies! Isn’t that awful of us? But frankly, we need something to metaphorically shred into tiny pieces. So help pick what we’re going to torture ourselves with!
