Friday, August 31, 2007

Eric Frank Russell's "Allamagoosa": Fudging data can have unintended consequences

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Marc Schultz's "Practicing My Sad Face": Moving & plausible, if not original

Arthur C. Clarke's "An Ape About the House": A famous painter, to be

Short stories & novels of Eric Frank Russell: A reading guide

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Robert Heinlein's "Beyond This Horizon" (novel): A society of supermen

Quotes from Robert Heinlein's "Beyond This Horizon" (novel)

Arthur C. Clarke's "Quarantine": A humorous post-apocalypse story!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Eric Frank Russell's "... And Then There Were None": Astrix as a novel - only "magic potion" is replaced with "Gandhigiri"

Arthur C. Clarke's "The Longest Science-fiction Story Ever Told": Not quite a story

Arthur C. Clarke's "Travel by Wire!": Email yourself for dinner, please!

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Robert Heinlein's "It's Great To Be Back": A couple gets homesick

Robert Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth": Spaceman extraordinary, & a great poet too

David Brin's "Reality Check": Reason we have never met aliens

Caroline Lockwood Nelson's "The Captain Is the Last to Leave": Probably a vampire story

Robert Metzger's "Perchance To Dream": Yet another confused "always dreaming" story

Arthur C. Clarke's "Guardian Angel": Prelude to "Childhood's End"

Friday, August 24, 2007

Darja Malcolm-Clarke's "The Beacon": Background sketch of an aliens' story series

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Joanne Merriam's "Little Ambushes": Stories a painting can tell

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Michael Crichton's "Next": Good writing, messy presentation

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Jetse De Vries' "Qubit Conflicts": The ultimate AI!

Clarkesworld magazine: Story list ranked on quality, plus story summaries & ratings

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