Tuesday, September 30, 2008

No post today, & posts will be erratic for a fortnight

Monday, September 29, 2008

Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Los Amigos Fiasco" (short story, humor, free): A method to turn mere mortals into supermen!

List of stories by year, decade, or century (or watch for new additions by these criteria)

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Original free fiction feed now tracks 9 more sources

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Free fiction: Science fiction of Dr Anil Aggarwal

Friday, September 26, 2008

Mack Reynolds' "Summit" (short story, Cold War, free)

Quote: Villains in hard sf

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Jack Williamson's "The Metal Man" (short story, adventure, free): Some earthlings may be stranger than aliens!

Free fiction: More scans of Astounding Stories (all 1932 issues)

Some experience reading scans

The Subprime Primer

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Mike Resnick's "Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia" (novella, free): A primer on organizing a society afresh

Online: Astounding Stories of Super Science - some more early issues

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Update: List of stories from John W Campbell's Astounding (later Analog)

Major bugfix: Original free fiction feed

Monday, September 22, 2008

Online: Stanlay Weinbaum stories

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Update: Original free fiction bot & feed - 4 new sources, more fiction from 1 sources, more reliable pickup from 1 source, & performance data

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (flash fiction, apocalypse, free): Too much oxygen can be very harmful!

Kat Beyer's "A Short History of the Supreme Democratically Elected Tyrant" (flash fiction, humor, free)

For authors: What gets a story submission rejected by this editor?

Online: Murray Leinster's collection "Med Ship" (ed Eric Flint & Guy Gordon)

Friday, September 19, 2008

Fredric Brown's "Answer" (flash fiction, AI, humor, free)

Robots also snore!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Online: Murray Leinster's collection "Planets of Adventure" (ed Eric Flint & Guy Gordon)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Murray Leinster's "Gateway To Elsewhere" aka "Journey to Barkut" (novel, adventure, free): What if djinns actually existed!

Lauren Davis lists some ancient science fictional stories at io9

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "The Mortal Immortal" (short story, immortality, free): It's no fun to be immortal in a society of mortals

Hindi audio of Arthur Clarke's The Star

Tracking free fiction (part 2 of 3): online publishers of reprints (including classics)

Monday, September 15, 2008

Update: Original free fiction bot & feed - 5 more sources, more fiction from 2 old sources, performance data, & bugs

Edward M Lerner's series on sf "tropes"

Friday, September 12, 2008

No post during the weekend

Voltaire's "Plato's Dream" (flash fiction, religion, free): Even god isn't perfect!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" is online!

Online: 14 classics + 2 new, all short fiction, at The Wondersmith

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Murray Leinster's "Evidence" (short story, non-genre, free): Cars during early twentieth century

Kelly Melcher's "Defining the Genre" series

Some online stories of Harry Harrison

Some online stories of Paolo Bacigalupi

Funny: "Rules for Computing Happiness"

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Harry Harrison's "The Misplaced Battleship" (novelette, crime, free)

Some issues about hard sf, & the stories that primarily deal with these issues

Monday, September 8, 2008

Patricia Stewart's "The Terraforming Equation" (flash fiction, business, free): There are opportunities even in a failure!

Behave, child - or...

Real science: A Gene Map of Europe!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Gareth Owens' "A New Note For Nat" (flash fiction, generation gap, free): What if adults couldn't hear kids' music?

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Fredric Brown's "Earthmen Bearing Gifts" (flash fiction, first contact, free): First contact that never happened!

James W Harris' List of Good Time Travel Stories

What's bad about science fiction?

Real Science: Mars water mystery

Original free fiction feed: Will henceforth publish weekly updates

Friday, September 5, 2008

Ernest M Kenyon's "Security" (short story, free): There are ways of circumventing the most stifling bureaucracy!

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Jack Vance's "Green Magic" (short story, philosophy, free): It's natural to long for a lost innocence?

Original free fiction bot update - 4 September 2008

Bot SF now has a commulative feed too

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Murray Leinster's "Morale: A Story of the War of 1941-43" (novelette, superweapon, free): There are multiple ways of defining terrorism