[GUEST POST] Jamie Todd Rubin Revisits The Handheld Games of the 80s
Author Jamie Todd Rubin takes a trip down memory lane and reminisces about the awesomeness of 80s handheld games. [...]
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“Daddy, What’s Dungeons & Dragons?”
A week ago I noted that a new version of the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook made its debut. Though it has been about 30 years since I last played D&D, I [...]
[The Wayward Time-Traveler] Anchors Away: Remembering Malcolm Jameson
When I first started on my Vacation in the Golden Age, I expected to “discover” writers that I hadn’t read much of, but certainly heard of. That was part of [...]
INTERVIEW: Chatting with Hugo- and Nebula-Award Nominee Nancy Fulda at Nebula Weekend
Nancy Fulda is a 2012 Hugo and Nebula Nominee and has been honored by Baen Books and the National Space Society for her writing. She has been a featured writer at Apex [...]
INTERVIEW: Talking Shop with Hugo-, Nebula-, and Campbell-Award Nominee Brad R. Torgersen
Brad R. Torgersen is a healthcare computer geek by day, a United States Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer on the weekend, and a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer by [...]
[The Wayward Time-Traveler] Survival of the Fittest: Science Fiction Magazines
What a curious species, the science fiction magazine. If you consider that first issue of Amazing Stories, published in April 1926, as the birth of the modern science [...]
The Wayward Time-Traveler: Do You Remember Your First Time?
A recent SF Signal Mind Meld asked participants “what was your introduction to fantasy and science fiction?” I thought this was an interesting question because it [...]
Lost on the Science Fiction Landscape – What Should I Read Next?
Remember a few months back when a remarkable infographic of the history of science fiction was let loose on the web? I think I spent hours looking at that infographic, [...]
The Wayward Time-Traveler: De Stella Novella
It has been said that the novella is the perfect form for science fiction: enough space for an author to build worlds, and short enough to read in an afternoon. My habit, [...]
The Golden Age Isn’t Always Golden
I sometimes think that the term “Golden Age” leads to the idea that all stories from that era are light or optimistic tales with valiant heroes and happy endings. [...]
The Wayward Time Traveler: Naming Pseudonyms
Over the last year, as I’ve made my way through my Vacation in the Golden Age, I’ve read stories by a number of writers who I’d never heard of before: [...]
A Correspondent to the Past, Part 4: 2039
For those who missed the first three parts: I was finally let in on SF Signal’s little secret: they have a time machine and they allowed me to use it to travel back to [...]
A Correspondent to the Past, Part 3: 1995
For those who missed the first two parts: I was finally let in on SF Signal’s little secret: they have a time machine and they allowed me to use it to travel back to [...]
A Correspondent to the Past, Part 2: 1957 – How I Met Isaac Asimov
For those who might have missed Part 1: I was finally let in on SF Signal’s little secret: they have a time machine and they allowed me to use it to travel back to [...]
INTERVIEW: Barry N. Malzberg and The Galaxy Project
Barry N. Malzberg‘s Beyond Apollo was in 1973 the winner of the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year; he twice won the [...]
A Correspondent to the Past, Part 1: 1939
The good folks at SF Signal waited 15 installments before letting me in on their little secret: back there, in that storage room, behind the shelves of bagels, and the [...]
Science Fiction Creates a New Golden Age
You can find it scattered throughout older science fiction stories: characters would visit libraries filled with “book-films.” They had “players” in [...]
Let’s Get Meta: Science Fiction About Science Fiction
The following are some notes for an idea for a possible column for the Wayward Time Traveler on SF Signal: In the November 1993 issue of Science Fiction Age, Scott Edelman [...]
On SF/F Art: A Few Words on a Thousand Pictures
There is the old adage: don’t judge a book by its cover. This may be true, but in science fiction and fantasy, we can certainly identify a book–sometimes even a [...]
And the Award Goes To…
Back in May, winners of the 2011 Nebula Awards were announced at the Nebula Weekend in Washington, D.C. In a little less than two weeks, the winners of the 2011 Hugo Awards [...]
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