More sad news today… Science fiction’s ultimate fan, Forrest J. Ackerman, died yesterday of heart failure, December 4, 2008, at the age of 92. (Forry fell ill [...]
UPDATE: Locus Online is was reporting that well-known science fiction fan and collector Forrest J. Ackerman has had passed away — but they have since retracted the [...]
Perry Rhodan is a 46 year-old, unapologetic space opera started in Germany that’s still running strong, spanning thousands of volumes. Ace published an English run of [...]
Website at the End of the Universe points to Mission Stardust on YouTube, a movie based on the Perry Rhodan books. Sweet! I confessed Perry Rhodan as my guilty pleasure a [...]
The March 2006 Internet Review of Science Fiction is available: Editorial: Octavia Butler, A Remembrance by Steven Barnes Interviews: Bruce Holland Rogers and Charles Stross [...]
I’m not a reading snob. I’ve talked before about the guilty pleasures of reading: I do enjoy the guilty pleasures of reading. While reading literary works make me [...]
SF Crowsnest posted an article about translating science fiction and fantasy. Interesting, but I would have liked to see some name-dropping examples. For example, a brief [...]