Saturday, February 28, 2009

Free fiction: Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" (audio)

RIP: Philip José Farmer

Free fiction: Couple of genre stories of Yvette Tan from Rogue magazine

Free fiction: 2 Hindi novels & a short story of Zeashan Zaidi & Yashwant Kothari

Amazon "Kindle 2"'s text-to-speech features

Friday, February 27, 2009

No post today

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Donald A Wollheim (Ed)'s "Avon Fantasy Reader No 14" (July 1950, anthology, free): Table of contents & download links

Mike Resnick's "A Four-Sided Triangle" (novelette, humor, non-genre, free): Lucifer in a multi-sided love relationship

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Donald A Wollheim (Ed)'s "Avon Science Fiction Reader No 3" (April 1952, anthology, free): Table of contents & download links

Feeds are healthy

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Kevin Grazier & Ges Segar's "Planet Killer" (novelette, space opera, free): Life needs a lot of luck

Free fiction: Poul Anderson, James H Schmitz, Harry Bates

Likely feed problems tomorrow

Off topic: Adjustable-height chairs considered dangerous

James P Hogan's "The Tree of Dreams" (novelette, free): Colonists meet more than their match in apparently pacific natives

Monday, February 23, 2009

Donald A Wollheim (Ed)'s "Avon Fantasy Reader No 17" (June 1951, anthology, free): Table of contents & download links

Masters of Adventure, Issue 1: Some recommended classics

Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Private Eye" (as by Lewis Padgett) (novelette, crime)

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Donald A Wollheim (Ed)'s "Avon Fantasy Reader No 15" (February 1951, anthology, free): Table of contents & download links

Real science: Liquid water observed on the surface of Mars?

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Mark Clifton's "The Dread Tomato Addiction" (flash fiction, satire, free): Logic as used by certain classes of people!

Free fiction: Genre fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle

Free fiction: BEN'S WEB PAGE

Friday, February 20, 2009

James P Hogan's "Jailhouse Rock" (novelette, space opera, free): The making of a hero

Donald A Wollheim (Ed)'s "Avon Fantasy Reader No 12" (January 1950, anthology, free): Table of contents & download links

Thursday, February 19, 2009

E S Strout's "First Contact" (short story, free)

Free fiction: Mike Brotherton's anthology "Diamonds in the Sky"

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Ted Kosmatka's "The Prophet of Flores" (novelette, free): What if we are god'd lab animals?

Free fiction: Some 2009 Filipino fiction

Real science: iPhone software acts somewhat like device in Randall Garrett's "Or Your Money Back..."

Off topic: How to click on "I Agree" button of EULA agreements of software without responsibility for the contract!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Henry Kuttner's "The Disinherited" (short story, free): A god-like being protects worlds from barbarian space invaders!

Free fiction: A E Van Vogt

The genesis of Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein"

Real science: Magenta is not a real color, but an invention of our brain!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Italo Calvino's "The Daughters of the Moon" (short story, fantasy, consumerism, free)

Free Fiction: Christopher Anvil

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Ben Bova's "The Next Logical Step" (short story, virtual reality, free): Serious implications of the ability to realistically simulate war games

Free fiction: MP3 audio of a lot of old stories, including some very famous ones

Active space probes by year since 1961

Meme: Best review post according to reviewers

James Alan Gardner's "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" (novelette, mysterious gadget, free)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Free fiction: Isaac Asimov, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey Landis

Possible posting trouble

Ludoshi's "Blue Marbel" (short story, free)

Free fiction: Arthur Clarke's humorous flash fiction piece "Quarantine"

Friday, February 13, 2009

Free Fiction: Jerry Pournelle, Tom Godwin

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Michael Cassutt's "Skull Valley" (short story, ape man, free)

Free fiction: Christopher Anvil, Vernor Vinge, Lloyd Biggle

David Brin's "The Crystal Spheres" (short story, first contact, free): An answer to Fermi's Paradox

"The Ultimate Guide to Modern Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy"

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Henry Slesar's "Reluctant Genius" (flash fiction, uplift, free): How aliens aided the beginning of modern physics!

Asimov's robots are lineal descendants of vampires!

SF Signal's Top 5 recent genre novels for those not into the genre

A note for Indian readers on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

A note on John Kessel's "Pride and Prometheus"

Free fiction: Abraham Merritt, Greg Bear

A short story, novelette, novella distinction that is not based on word count!

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Patricia Stewart's "Triton" (flash fiction, first contact, free): How earthmen learnt of the impending doomsday...

On clasifying fantasy stories

Anil Aggarwal's "The Mystery of the Burnt Bride" (short story, environment, free): Could air pollution be affecting human evolution?

Free fiction: G W Thomas links online stories of Ray Cummings

Free fiction: Scans of Jack Williamson's "In the Scarlet Star"

Gary K Wolfe names his last year's pick from normal, revolutionary, & middle ground scifi novels

Mike of File 770 names some great stories of yesteryears

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