Sunday, September 30, 2007

Eric Frank Russell's "Mesmerica": Very hostile telepathic aliens don't welcome humans on their world

Arthur C. Clarke's "Cosmic Casanova": A playboy meets his match

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Cory Doctorow's "Scroogled": Screwed by Google

Ted Chiang's "Understand": Clash of two supermen

Charles Stross' "Snowball’s Chance": A criminal cons the Devil

David Charlton's "Moon Over Yodok": On civil rights abuses in one of the Koreas

Jerome Stueart's "Brazos": Matrimonial negotiations of a god & a human

Elizabeth Bear's "Black is the Color": Monster hunting girls

Friday, September 28, 2007

Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" (novel): On leadership & winning

Quotes from Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" (novel)

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Gene Wolfe's "Unrequited Love": For admirers of Asimov's robot stories

"Subterranean" magazine, Summer 2007 issue: 8 stories

Arthur C. Clarke's "Improving the Neighborhood": A shorter version of "The Star"

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Nancy Kress' "Fountain of Age" (novella, science fiction): An old man cannot get over love of his youth

Arthur C. Clarke's "The Hammer of God" (short story): An asteroid on impact course with earth

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven" aka "April 2000: The Third Expedition": Humans explorers conned by hostile Martians

Larry Niven's "Wait It Out": A man in natural stasis, on Pluto

Adam-Troy Castro's "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's": Description of an enigma

Larry Niven's "Smut Talk": Sentient bacteria of alien origin!

Friday, September 21, 2007

William Gibson's "Neuromancer" (novel): A world of cyborgs

Arthur C. Clarke's "Summertime on Icarus": Shipwreck near the Sun

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent Into The Maelström": A man survives by not losing his wits

Arthur C. Clarke's "Maelstrom II": A totally crazy but effective rescue operation

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Stanley G Weinbaum's "Parasite Planet": Very filmi romance - on Venus

Eliot Fintushel's "How the Little Rabbi Grew": Coming of a messiah

Benjamin Rosenbaum's "A Siege of Cranes": A witches tale, or a terrorists' one

Monday, September 17, 2007

Brian Stableford's "The Trial": A drug trial is more successful than expected!

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