Saturday, December 22, 2007

Taking a short break

Anne McCaffrey's "Weyr Search" (novella, fantasy): A low-status woman ends up a queen

Erica L Satifka's "Automatic" (short story, science fiction): Earth & humans are aliens' property!

Friday, December 21, 2007

Larry Niven's "The Borderland of Sol" (novelette, science fiction): Hunting the space pirates

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Larry Niven's "Safe at Any Speed" (short story): Folklore adapted as a science fiction story

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Jules Verne & Michel Verne's "In the Year 2889" (short story, science fiction): Beware! Future telling can come true!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Bruce Sterling's "Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct": AIs have taken over from humans!

Arthur C. Clarke's "Love That Universe": When humans wanted to make first contact with aliens

Friday, December 14, 2007

David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF": Annotated table of contents & review

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Larry Niven's "Cloak of Anarchy": An experiment in anarchy-based society

John Scalzi's "Pluto Tells All": What Pluto feels - about its "demotion" from the status of a planet!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Arthur C. Clarke's "The Lion of Comarre" (novella): A man resists the temptation of eternal pleasure

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Hal Clement's "Uncommon Sense": Curiosity saves a man his life on a weird world

Friday, December 7, 2007

Clarkesworld magazine, December 2007 issue: 3 stories, 1 good

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Brief posts: 8 stories, some good

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

William Barton's "The Rocket into Planetary Space": Current state of the art in space travel

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Larry Niven's "Intent to Deceive": Robots go bonkers because of a software bug!