J. J. Pierce (1941–2026): the critic who fought the New Wave, edited Galaxy, and whose father named the transistor (obituary).
J. J. Pierce, the critic who led the charge against SF's New Wave, edited Galaxy in 1977 and was the son of the…
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J. J. Pierce, the critic who led the charge against SF's New Wave, edited Galaxy in 1977 and was the son of the…
Salon, one of the web's first magazines, closes after 31 years. SFcrowsnest, online since 1991, on why genre readers keep us going.
Steve Davidson, who revived Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories online in 2012 and in print in 2018, has died aged 67, in the magazine's…
Starlog returns in print on 13 November 2026 as an annual, with Annalee Newitz as editor-in-chief. Yes, there's a poem.
Donato Giancola and John Picacio rejected cover contracts from Asimov's owner Must Read Magazines. The publisher has since promised to drop work for…
Starship Sloane's relaunched Worlds of IF reaches issue #180, nearly 300 pages, with cover art by Ninja Jo and a Bruce Pennington back…
As can be seen from the cover of this ‘Back Issue’, there is a selection of doctors from American comicbooks. Editor Roger…
Cryptology #11 from TwoMorrows dives into The Creature from the Black Lagoon, horror hosts, Richard Powers covers, the Golem and Hammer's The Nanny.
This issue of ‘Back Issue’ has the sub-title of ‘Support Staff’. I think I might have called it ‘Supporting Characters’ to be a…
Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is…
Asimov's Science Fiction is fifty years old this December. A look back at the magazine that gave us Enemy Mine, Bloodchild and Accelerando,…
Don’t be squeamish with this edition of Cryptology. It’s only spiders, and they aren’t really there to eat you.