Thursday, May 2, 2013

Saturn's North Pole

Sometimes just a picture is awe-some enough.

 Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA


But here's some related music to go with it, "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" from The Planets by Gustav Holst.

And here are a couple of previous blog posts having to do with Saturn.


Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Galaxy's Edge



The May issue of Galaxy's Edge is now available for free online reading!

This month's contents include both new and reprint stories, by Ken Liu, Robert Silverberg, Tina Gower (recent winner of the Writers of the Future contest Golden Pen Award), Gio Clairval, and Charles Sheffield. Gregory Benford is the magazine's science columnist. And editor Mike Resnick presents another intriguing editorial.

For a full listing of the 12 stories, novel excerpt, serialization, and columns, go to the Galaxy's Edge home page. You'll be able to read Issue 2 free online until Issue 3 debuts on July 1.

If you'd rather not read online, the magazine can be purchased for reading as a MOBI or epub file, or as a PDF. A print version is also available, and you can get an annual subscription via Weightless Books. (Links are on the home page.)

We hope you enjoy what each issue of Galaxy's Edge has to offer!


Monday, April 1, 2013

April-wise


Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. was born on April 1, 1942. Happy 71st birthday to him!

Have you read any of his work? Here are some links:

Delany's Facebook page
"There's Not Been Enough of Samuel R. Delany" by Jo Walton at Tor.com
Interview at Public Radio International (audio available on the site)
Frederik Pohl on Delany
Works at gutenberg.org
"Notable Quotes"
"A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany"




Friday, March 1, 2013

New free online science fiction magazine has arrived

It's here! The first issue of Galaxy's Edge, a free online magazine from Phoenix Pick.

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Some mini-excerpts from various stories:

"You know how it can be done, right? Actually make a big bang. No, I’m not kidding. Look, it’s not really that hard. Theoretically. All you have to do is pack a few kilograms of ordinary matter into a sufficiently small space, really small, considerably smaller than an atomic nucleus. Then, when you release the pressure that constrains it, the thing explodes."

As he walked, he could hear the faintest snick of gears, the moto-robo-electronic zizzing of invisible mechanics in the room around him. Where was he? Who was he? Why was he? He had no idea.

Twelve hundred years had elapsed since the blood had been siphoned out of my body and oxygenated antifreeze had been pumped in to replace it. We’d spent the first of those years accelerating, and presumably the last one decelerating, and the rest—

Her father came from Thana, near Bombay, and her favorite flavor of chewyfrute was watermelon and she’d had five lovers and when she was eleven she had wanted to be a gymnast but instead she had become a biomaterials engineer who at age twenty-nine had volunteered to go to the stars to learn how to grow artificial eyes.


You can read Galaxy's Edge free online or download a digital version (PDF / Mobi / ePub) for $2.99. A print version will be available soon.


Friday, February 22, 2013

New science fiction magazine - in one week

On March 1, Phoenix Pick is launching a new science fiction magazine: Galaxy's Edge


A new issue of Galaxy's Edge will be published every two months, and will include new stories, great reprints, a serialization, commentary, and book reviews.

The first issue includes new stories by Lou J. Berger, Nick DiChario, Robert T. Jeschonek, Stephen Leigh, and Alex Shvartsman. The reprints, including a Hugo winner, are by Kij Johnson, James Patrick Kelly, Jack McDevitt, and Robert J. Sawyer. The first novel being serialized is Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye, a Hugo finalist that lost to Stranger in a Strange Land.

Mike Resnick is the magazine's editor, Horace Cocroft and Barry Malzberg each have a column, and Paul Cook is doing the reviews.

The website for the magazine is www.galaxysedge.com; links go live on March 1.


Friday, February 15, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

A free ebook from Phoenix Pick

Our February 2013 free ebook:



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Thanks to SF Signal for helping us let people know about this offer!