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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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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · Nov 20
1) Going OOC for a mo.

What is Galactic Journey? It is so staggeringly big, so comprehensive, that I suspect even our fans don't know all of its facets. We review every SFF story that comes out, but did you know we’re also a TV station? A radio broadcaster? A LARP?

Strap in—we're taking a ride:
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@holmesja.bsky.social has the scoop on the latest episodes of Time Slip!

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A black and white still from the episode shows a futuristic medical ward. In the foreground Joynton, a blonde woman with a 1960s-looking bouffant hairdo is writing on a sheet of paper, which is surrounded by glass beakers and tubes. She is wearing a shiny zip-up jumpsuit with a matte long-sleeved undershirt. In the background, Beth, a brown-haired woman in similar attire stands facing a large glass pod in which a girl is reclining as though unconscious. A second glass pod, similarly occupied by a boy, is behind the Joynton.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Some truly excellent fiction in this month's #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction :

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The cover of the December edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A color painting shows a red metal humanoid robot with sticklike appendages, lights for ears, and a grill for a face. It sits in a rowboat atop a sandy landscape that extends to the horizon. The oars are dipped into the sand as though rowing, and some sand has spilled into the back of the rowboat. The robot is seated facing away from the viewer with its head turned to look behind it. In the background, a full moon hangs against a black sky.
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Have you heard of the Orbiting Frog Otolith? Check out our latest feature—it's a croaking good article:

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A color photo of an arm in a white shirt sleeve, whose hand is holding up an approximately eight-inch brown bullfrog by the back of the neck. The frog, legs dangling, appears unbothered. A black and white photo of two men in hard hats looking down at a large cylindrical centrifuge, which takes up the entire bottom half of the image.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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This month's second #ScienceFIction book round-up starts rough, veers into the very funny, and ends (as one might expect) in the sublime. It is worth your attention!

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Three science fiction book covers described thoroughly at the article
November 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Dark Shadows is the #fantasy #horror soap opera that has swept the air waves. Now it's a movie... but is this adaptation any good?

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Promotional poster for House of Dark Shadows. It shows several people's faces, some of which have blood dripping from their fanged mouths. A woman can be seen with a sharp piece of wood stuck in her chest. The tower of a castle can be seen in the background. At the top of the poster is the sentence: Barnabas Collins, vampire, takes a bride in a bizarre act of unnatural lust. At the bottom of the poster is the sentence: Come see how the vampires do it.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Samuel R ("Chip") Delany has got a new anthology of #ScienceFiction out. @krisvm has the inside dope:

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Quark #1 cover showing a paperback saying (on both front and book: a paperback library original review quark/#1 a quarterly of speculative fiction adam bailey benford bernott boucher bryant delany disch dozois eklund fitzgerald gilden hickey lafferty le guin link priest russ stanley van vogt Cover shows the back of two heads, one of a wave of blonde hair, the other an afro, peaking out from under two flags tied together one the stars and stripes the other a confederate flag. Two arms of black people reach out, one holds a syringe, the other a Willendorf Venus attached to a push dagger, both pointing downwards.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Four books, four stars apiece—which stellar #ScienceFiction books should be next on YOUR reading list!

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Four science fiction book covers, each described more thoroughly in the article proper
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Laumer, Aldiss, Lafferty, and more in this month's high-speed #ScienceFiction magazine, Fantastic:

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Colour cover for December 1970's issue of Fantastic. Cover illustration features a collection of four bodies (rendered in grays) hunched and curled low to the ground, surrounding a standing figure whose arm is raised to clasp that of a final winged and masked figure, rising in flight. Red-helmeted white men's faces are superimposed in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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So long, Peter Cushing, hello... Ralph Bates? The newest #Frankenstein movie is not without its charms:

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Movie poster for The Horror of Frankenstein. Four black and white photos are superimposed over a yellow and orange background. Across the top, a banner reads New thrills! New Faces! New Horror! Clockwise from the top, the photos show: Victor Frankenstein in a puffy white shirt holding a syringe as the monster stands expressionless next to him; The monster stands shirtless holding a Frankenstein by the throat, brandishing a stick in the other hand; the monster stands looking down at a fainting woman held in his arms; Victor Frankenstein kneels in a straw-covered dungeon, holding chains that are attached to the monster who lies collapsed on the floor.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A middlin' issue of Galaxy #ScienceFiction but some exciting election results in today's article!

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The cover of December 1970's Galaxy Science Fiction featuring a man in a space suit with a looming structure behind him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Worlds of Tomorrow #ScienceFiction returns...with all the impact of a wet noodle. Is it worth your time? Read on!

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Cover of the magazine Worlds of Tomorrow. It announces the stories The Jagged Pink Marshmallow Kid by W. MacFarlane, Greyspun's Gift by Neal Barrett Jr., The Dream Machine by Keith Laumer and Seedling from the Stars by John Jakes. The cover illustration shows a human head wearing electric cables around the skull, inside a dark starry shape full of bubbles.
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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@holmesja.bsky.social on Timeslip: "The bottom line: it’s a fun series, it’s interesting to watch, just so long as you don’t think about it too hard.

That’s MY job."

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Gottfried (left) and Traynor looking one another in the eye. Gottfried is disguised as an officer of the Royal Navy.
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#Space isn't just a came for the superpowers anymore: read up on how the UK, France, and Australia are blasting their way into orbit!

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Souvenir envelope for ELDO f-9 flight. It has an illustration of a rocket launch, a list of ELDO mmber countires and a special postmark for the F-9 launch.
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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East meets West—two famed #cosmonauts visit the U .S. even as the Soviets score another #space triumph. Read all about it!

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Colour photograph of two cosmonauts appearing to attend a presentation using scale models of NASA crafts with a movie cameraman capturing the session in the left foreground
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Ecology is a major theme in this month's #Analog #ScienceFiction — does it make for a better mag? Read on!

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Colour cover of Analog Science Fiction Science Fact November 1970. The cover illustration is of a white man fleeing through a forest in terror closely pursued by a creature resembling a blue warthog with the size and horns of a bull, and the story advertised on the front is Keith Laumer's 'The Plague'.
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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@kris takes us on a tour of #ScienceFiction -al music! Check out these fantastic disks for your turntable:

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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King album cover showing a painting of a man with bright red skin screaming.
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Niven's newest, #Ringworld, and the ambitions Sorcerer's World by Damien Broderick are the two #ScienceFiction books on tap for review today:

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Covers for Ringworld and Sorcerer's World (see article for more in-depth description)
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It's time for Monday Night #Football!

Come see the #Vikings vs. the #Rams: October 26, 1970!

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Title screen: Los Angeles Rams VS Minnesota Vikings over a football field
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Jason Sacks takes on the dystopic, nihilistic, #ScienceFIction non-classic: NO BLADE OF GRASS:

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Promo phhoto for NO BLADE OF GRASS Featuring a woman in a car, screaming as her vehicle gets surrounded by men
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Bob Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril" comes to life in this brilliant West German adaptation—The Million Game! Thanks, @corabuhlert.bsky.social !

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In this striking still from The Million Game, host Thilo Uhlenhorst can be seen in front of an oversized portrait of contestant Bernhard Lotz with crosshairs on his face.
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Don't just read our latest review of #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction for the magazine—I've got a whole bit on the creation of #NOAA, too!

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A smiling Indian tumbler performs in The Games
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Terrence Stamp stars in this #ScienceFiction #horror : The Mind of Mr. Soames—read all about it!

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Poster for The Mind of Mr. Soames headlined, "Can this baby kill?" with a screaming, technicolor head of Terrence Stamp in a jail-like crib surrounded by toys.
October 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This month's first Galactoscope round-up of science fiction (yes, there will be two!) has both soaring heights and middling trots. Read on to see what #ScienceFiction you should be picking up off the shelves this month!

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Four book covers (all described in detail in the article)
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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@holmesja.bsky.social brings news of a brand new BBC #TimeTravel show: TIMESLIP! Is it good? Read on!

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Title card for TIMESLIP with the word rendered in MICR typeface
October 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"Good-looking package, attentive editorial presence, slickly written short pieces (and no doubt a capable Shaw novel based on his track record). But it’s all a bit light on substance..."

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Cover of Amazing magazine for November 1970. It announces the stories One Million Tomorrows by Bob Shaw, Enemy by Proxy by Jack Wodhams, A Time to Teach, a Time to Learn by Noel Loomis, Through the Dark Glass by Gerard R. Conway, and the article Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science by Barry N. Malzberg. The cover illustration shows a robotic hand against a multicolored background.
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM