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70sscifiart: Vincent Di Fate, “Christmas Eve”

This, from Techcrunch, seems like a good summary of a bad situation facing this blog: Death Of A Forum: How The UK's Online Safety Act Is Killing Communities. This blog is just that: my personal …

The BBC Television Shakespeare, which I’ve just completed watching, was an essentially comprehensive collection of all William Shakespeare’s plays, but it has a couple of omissions by modern standards. The series excluded a play that …

Science fiction writers can’t predict the future but some aim to speculate on times to come by extrapolating current trends. One of the most famous SF novels to do this was Stand on Zanzibar by …

More people came to Carol’s funeral than there were seats in the crematorium chapel: our families, her friends and mine, some of whom had travelled a long way. The funeral directors, P B Wright and …

Over in Every, I wrote about how writing is more than a method for capturing ideas, it’s a way of exploring them: By externalizing your thoughts, writing puts you into conversation with yourself. It’s always …

Get to know author and coder Matthew Kressel in this enlightening Q&A that delves into the themes and inspirations behind “Five Hundred KPH Toward Heaven,” Kressel’s story from our [January/February issue, on sale now!] Asimov’s …

by George Pritchard First off, hello from the United Kingdom! I have been moved over to a new office here, which has been quite the process! Nice people, but quieter than I expected. Now, to …

This blog post is the twenty-sixth in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is here.At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, September 2, 1983 at the Baltimore …

Karen Lord, The Blue, Beautiful World, Del Rey, 2023.Audiobook available.The Blue, Beautiful World is a fascinating science-fiction stand-alone novel about first contact. Owen is a global music star. The crowds flock to his concerts, commune …

I recently unleashed upon the interwebs a blog post casting aspersions on some stories from the 1970s by Grand Master Frederik Pohl. Today we'll address the same topic, Pohl's 1970s work, but with a little …

Mark Salwowski’s cover for the 1989 edition 3.25/5 (Above Average) In The Drift (1985), a fix-up novel comprised of two Nebula-nominated short works–“Mummer Kiss” (1981) and “Marrow Death” (1984), maps a new way forward in …

I've always posted irregularly and I don't think that's going to change, that's just how I roll (no, I'm not bipolar). On the other hand, I need to recharge the batteries, so my absence will …

Movies & TV Dune: Prophecy Dune: Prophecy’s First Season Ends With Operatic Highs in “The High-Handed Enemy” As usual, the Corrino family are a mess. But who’s going to pick up the pieces this time? …

In Japan, riding a steam train through outer space is a melancholy symbol of the human journey. Like the gentle drift of the sakura petal, the whistle of a train means a transition in life. …

An ex-soldier, Skif, is annoyed when his flat is destroyed by an "artifact," a strange, reality-warping device brought out of the Zone, the huge stretch of countryside surrounding the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant which has …