Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Carrie Vaughn's "Marrying In": Pains of a country newly divided

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Frederik Pohl's "Gateway" (novel): Survivor's guilt of a reluctant hero

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Neal Asher's "Alien Archaeology" (novella, science fiction): A criminal is hunted & punished

Arthur C. Clarke's "The Steam-powered Word Processor": A spin on the life & works of Charles Babbage

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Arthur C. Clarke's "Crusade": No life, but intelligence!

Cory Doctorow's "0wnz0red": Software to tone up your body!!

Short stories, novels, & fan fiction of Cory Doctorow: A reading guide by quality

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Larry Niven's "Ringworld" (novel): An interesting artificial space habitat

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Will McIntosh's "One Paper Airplane Graffito Love Note": Love story that was doomed from the beginning

Monday, October 22, 2007

Ellen Klages' "The Green Glass Sea": Picnic at the site of first test of the atom bomb

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Jack Vance's "Meet Miss Universe": When "feminine beauty" needed to be defined with mathematical rigor!

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Eric Frank Russell's "Sinister Barrier" (novel): Earth & humans are "owned" by higher sentient species!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Charles de Lint's "Make a Joyful Noise": A woman finally prepares to grow out of her past

Jason Stoddard's "Making Payments": Hopeless techno-babble

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

John G Hemry's "Small Moments in Time": Is he a murderer, or a messiah?

Arthur C. Clarke's "Publicity Campaign": Scared humans turn benevolent aliens to malevolent ones!

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Elizabeth Bear's "Tideline" (short story, science fiction, free): An emotional robot teaches life skills to an urchin

Ted Chiang's "Catching Crumbs from the Table": Humans live an uncomfortable existence in a mixed society with superhumans

Monday, October 15, 2007

Lisa Mantchev's "A Dance Across Embers": A freedom fighter is born

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Quotes from Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" (novel)