Saturday, January 31, 2009

Isaac Asimov & Martin H Greenberg (Eds)' "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 2 (1940)" (anthology): Annotated table of contents & review

"Astounding Science-Fiction", August 1938 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & download links

For authors: Online Presence 101 by Neil Beynon

Correction: Astounding & Avon download links posted a couple of days back

Won't be able to post today

Friday, January 30, 2009

Brian Plante's "The Astronaut" (short story, free)

"Science fiction is a literature of ideas"

Free fiction: Astounding & Avon

For authors: Advise from veterans

Frederik Pohl on his life & editing, plus a short bibliography

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Isaac Asimov & Martin H Greenberg (Eds)' "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 1 (1939)" (anthology): Annotated table of contents & review

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

No post today

Abraham Merritt's "The Moon Pool" (novelette, lost civilization, free)

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Free fiction: Gaslight

Free fiction: G W Thomas collects links to online stories of Murray Leinster on one page

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Julian Barnes' "The Limner" (short story, non-genre, free)

Aravind Adiga's "The Elephant" (novelette, non-genre, free)

Joyce Carol Oates' "Pumpkin Head" (short story, non-genre, free)

Free fiction: 16 monthly issues of "The Argosy" magazine of Frank A Munsey at Internet Archive

Terra Incognito on proto-SF stories of Edgar Allan Poe

For authors: "Fantastic Stories of the Imagination" is seeking submissions

Stories from Playboy magazine, 2009 issues

Aurealis Awards 2008 winners are announced

Friday, January 23, 2009

Greg Egan's "Crystal Nights" (novelette, AI, free): A retelling of Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God"

Online movies: Archives of "National film Board of Canada"

Free fiction: James Turner links "The Best Webcomics You're Not Reading"

Jo Walton chooses 18 good genre stories of 20th century

Terra Incognito recommends the best short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (with short commentaries)

Jared R Cloud's "On the Job Training" (flash fiction, humor, free)

BSFA Awards 2008: Short fiction nominees & download links

Free fiction: HTML version of the Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" (as by Lewis Padgett)

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Arthur Clarke's "Death and the Senator" (short story, space hospitals, free): Certain heart ailments may be best treated in a zero gravity environment

Free fiction: Audio versions of a bunch of old stories at LibriVox

Frederik Pohl now has a blog

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ted Kosmatka's "Divining Light" (novelette, quantum mechanics, free): Who else besides humans is special in God's scheme of things?

Free fiction: Several more Nebula Awards 2008 short fiction preliminary nominees are now online

Free fiction: Pulp.Net

Real science: Is space-time a grainy hologram?

Real science: Some stunning orbital images of earth

Recommended stories from Frederik Pohl's Galaxy & If magazines during 1962-1967

A classification of reviews

For authors: James Van Pelt on commercial considerations in publishing single author collections

For authors: Sharon Lee shares some experiences on serializing novels on web

Very terse notes on some Heinlein novels

Monday, January 19, 2009

Robert A Heinlein's "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" (novel, space opera): Two teenagers defending earth in a multi-galaxy courtroom!

Quotes from Robert A Heinlein's "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" (novel, space opera)