Monday, June 30, 2008

Darwin's Evolutions, June 2008 (online magazine)

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Mark Clifton's "What Now, Little Man?" (novelette, science fiction, free): On racial superiority prejudices

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Hal Clement's "Halo" (short story, science fiction): Good & bad of the heavy micro-meteor density in space around earth

Friday, June 27, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke's "Playback" (short story, science fiction): Reincarnation not possible with a corrupt mind dump

Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" (ss) is online

Ralph Williams' "Cat and Mouse" (novelette, science fiction, free): A colorful pest control problem!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke's "A Meeting With Medusa" (novella, hard sf): Exploring the upper atmosphere of Jupiter in a manned vehicle

Cold Equations audio is online!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Cory Doctorow's "After the Siege" (novella, free): Citizens' pain - in a city under military siege

Monday, June 23, 2008

Joan D Vinge's "To Bell the Cat" (novelette, science fiction, free): A discredited man finds a purpose in life

James Nicoll's new post on 1989 Locus Awards First Novel longlist is out

Sunday, June 22, 2008

C L Moore's "Fruit of Knowledge" (novelette, religion): First few days of Adam, Eve, & the second woman - in the Garden of Eden

Locus Awards 2008

Hal Clement's Iceworld & Phoenix' discovery of subsurface ice on Mars

James Nicoll's new post on 1988 Locus Awards First Novel longlist is out

Saturday, June 21, 2008

James Nicoll's posts on "Locus Poll Best First Novel" lists under "Old Tea Leaf Reviews" label

Friday, June 20, 2008

Robert Sheckley's "A Wind Is Rising" (as by Finn O'Donnevan) (short story, science fiction, free): Camping on a world with constant hurricanes

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Gardner Dozois' "Flash Point" (short story, non-genre, free): Enumeration of violent incidents in a town

C L Moore's "Daemon" (novelette, fantasy): Precursor to "Flowers for Algernon"?

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Jason Fischer's "Toilet Town" (flash fiction, science fiction, free)

C L Moore's "No Woman Born" (novella, science fiction): Among the defining cyborg stories

Quotes from C L Moore's "No Woman Born" (novella)

Monday, June 16, 2008

Hartwell & Cramer's "Year's Best SF 13" is out (many stories are also online)

Saturday, June 14, 2008

No post tomorrow

Alice Sheldon's "The Women Men Don't See" (as by James Tiptree, Jr) (novelette, free): A woman is very unhappy in a male dominated society

Philip José Farmer's "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World" (short story, science fiction, free): Romance in a weird overpopulated world

Friday, June 13, 2008

Frederik Pohl's "The Midas Plague" (novella, science fiction, humor): What if you were REQUIRED to regularly meet a consumption quota?