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6x Best Fanzine Hugo-finalist. Blast back to 1970: #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, and the #Space Race! Broadcasting the Moon Landings "as they happen" and discussing classic #ScienceFiction here:

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@krisvm.bsky.social tackles the latest issue of Quark — whatever it is, it ain't #ScienceFiction!

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Cover for Quark 2 showing a picture of a boy with a fishtail for legs against crumpled material background. Text at the top says: A paperback library original review Quark/2 A quarterly review of speculative fiction by John Brunner, Thomas Disch, Carol Emshwiller, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Lieber, James Sallis and Others. Edited by Samuel R. Delaney and Marilyn Hacker.
February 10, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Amber determines that the next batch of Rod Serling's Night Gallery is way better than the first!

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Rod Serling stands presenting his work
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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David tracks the mediocritization of IF #ScienceFiction... and memorializes the most important cartoonist you've barely heard of:

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Cover of IF. Orbs of various colors and textures circle the head of a woman wearing a circlet.
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Tune in tonight at 1am Pacific for all night LIVE Apollo 14 Moon landing and Moonwalk coverage!

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February 5, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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A tremendous #space success for the Soviets! And... a less than stellar outing for John Campbell's Analog #ScienceFiction

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Colour photograph of the cover of the February 1971 issue of Analog, depicting a space craft closely resembling a fighter jet taking off from a rather carrier-esque vessel and curving in flight towards Earth, featuring the story 'The World Menders' by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Venera 7 approaches Venus (painting) Spherical capsule emblazoned CCCP on the hellish surface of Venus (painting)
February 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Starting in less than two hours!!!! Don't miss it!
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This is it! Apollo 14 coverage starts THIS WEEKEND (January 31st) at 11am.

This is to-the-second "live" coverage of the entire Apollo 14 mission with all extant footage: YOU ARE THERE.

PLEASE tell all your friends and mark your calendars.

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#NASA #Moon #space
The three Apollo 14 astronauts in front of their mission insignia
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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This is it! Apollo 14 coverage starts THIS WEEKEND (January 31st) at 11am.

This is to-the-second "live" coverage of the entire Apollo 14 mission with all extant footage: YOU ARE THERE.

PLEASE tell all your friends and mark your calendars.

discord.gg/QzJWRrPZwx?e...

#NASA #Moon #space
The three Apollo 14 astronauts in front of their mission insignia
January 29, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Lorelei takes on LA 2017, and Jason reviews Brewster McCloud: two #ScienceFiction pieces for the price of one!
LA 2017 in MICR font overlays a desolate, orange-filtered landscape with an ambulance parked in the distance
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Jason Sacks is positively verklempt over the newest National (DC) Comics creation:

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Cover of the first issue of the New Gods featuring a masked man in an orange and purple skinsuit flying a rocketpack away from a green planet
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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"Two pets, both alike in dignity..."
A person holding a bearded dragon standing next to a brown and white pug dog, both pets looking quizzically at the camera
January 24, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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So much space news, it wouldn't fit in one article! Learn about the Russian "Man" on the Moon... and what the French are doing:

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Full-scale model of Lunokhod-1 Soviet Moon rover looking like a truck mated with a spider
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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@holmesja.bsky.social serves up another funny review for the latest #DoctorWho

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The Master's first appearance. He has dark hair slicked back, a goatee and sports a black Nehru jacket.
January 24, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Who is Marjorie Townsend, and how will her #Uhuru satellite discover new secrets of the universe? Kaye Dee has a thrilling story for you:

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A man and woman stand on either side of the Uhuru satellite. The man is Riccardo Giacconi, the woman Marjorie Townsend.
January 22, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Jack Vance starts a new #ScienceFiction classic in the latest #Fantasy and Science Fiction!

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cover of the issue, predominately in reds, featuring a stylized, golden figure of a man hanging in the ropes beneath a hot-air balloon
January 22, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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More than half of the latest Worlds of Fantasy magazine was written by women! Unprecedented! And a pretty good issue. Check it out:

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Cover for Worlds of Fantasy #3, depicting Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin, showing two robed figures walking over a desert landscape with seven dark standing stones behind them. Behind them is the transluscent image of a skull in orange wearing a bat winged helmet. Text on the cover: Worlds of Fantasy Issue 3, 1970-71 75¢ MAC What do you mean - Fantasy? Theodore Sturgeon In a blue blox: Complete new novel by this year's Hugo winner! The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin Bottom text reads: In the Cards - Robert Bloch Among the Grimoires - Lester Del Rey"
January 21, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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We covered 12 #ScienceFiction books this month! See the verdicts:

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Five SF book covers Seven SF book covers
January 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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The British #ScienceFiction show, "TimeSlip", is finally starting to warm up to itself... pun intended:

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Traynor, an older man with messy white hair and close-trimmed beard and mustache, holds Liz in a headlock, aiming a large knife at her face.
January 15, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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A pair of terrific vignettes make the latest Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy worth your time!

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February 1971 cover of 'Fantastic Stories' featuring a woman in dark robes covered in planets and stars standing before a large pillar. pink clouds billow behind her.
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Rod Serling's Night Gallery has become a regular part of this year's television season... but does it live up to the pilot's promise? Amber has the details:

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Title card for the TV series Night Gallery. It shows the words Night Gallery in block letters in a frame over a dark, obscure image.
January 12, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Someone's hijacked Galaxy #ScienceFiction — can someone bring it back from Cuba?

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"Cover of Feruary 1971's cover of Galaxy Science Fiction featuring a round robot with a large green eye, holding an American flag and wearing a peace sign necklace.
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Mod or hippie? The new mode of fashion combines both!

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Colour photo of a fabric sample with repeating tessellated geometric hexagonal patterns suggesting spirals. The patterns are composed of black, mustard, and lime trapezoidal bars against a white field
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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The Cold War is thawing... why did West German prime minister Willy Brandt drop to his knees in Poland? @corabuhlert.bsky.social has the news:

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Willy Brandt kneeling on the cover of issue 51/1970 of Der Spiegel.
January 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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The latest edition of Orbit #ScienceFiction starts rough, but there are enough good stories to make it worth your time:

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Cover for the Orbit 8 anthology. A list of authors appears below the title. Beneath, a huge spherical alien creature with eyes and tentacles emerging from the sphere at various angles appears to be floating through a yellow expanse of space. A rocket, appearing minuscule next to the alien, points upward in front of it.
January 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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James H. Schmitz delivers the #ScienceFIction goods in the latest issue of #Analog!

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Cover of Analog magazine for January 1971. It announces the story The Telzey Toy by James H. Schmitz. The cover illustration shows a man in a lab examining a shining cube where two naked women in a red forest are visible.
January 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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@drfionamoore.bsky.social and George offer up reviews of a pair of new British productions: Tam-Lin and Robin Redbreast!

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Poster for 'The Ballad of Tam-Lin'
December 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM