Thursday, December 31, 2009

No post tonight

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Omkar Wagh's "Simulation" (flash fiction, free)

Free fiction: "Planet Stories", Summer 1955

Free fiction: 8 stories from Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and Grey Mouser" collection

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Henry Kuttner's "Call Him DEMON" (novelette, haunted house, free): Little child "beats" the ghost

Real science: A visual aid to comprehend relative gravity of different worlds in Sol

Free fiction: Hindi novel: Zeashan Zaidi's "Platinum Ki Khoj" (tr "Discovery of Platinum")

Monday, December 28, 2009

Iva Koevska's "It Feels Like" (flash fiction, environment, free)

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Ian McEwan's "The Use of Poetry" (short story, love story, free)

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Free fiction: 3 years worth of "Amazing Stories" magazine

Frederik Pohl on the last days of Arthur Clarke, & their joint novel "The Last Theorem"

Frederik Pohl has been telling a history of Astounding magazine

Friday, December 25, 2009

Robert Billing's "Harnessing the brane-deer" (flash fiction, weird physics, free): What if large masses could be made to show visible wave behavior?

Thursday, December 24, 2009

China Miéville's "'Tis the Season" (short story, farce, free)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Looking for some Christmas humor?

Science fiction with at least a major thread involving beer

Telepresence fiction

Science fiction involving intersteller empired headed by a woman

Robert Silverberg critiques Arthur Clarke's fiction

"Best Science Fiction Stories" is 2 years old

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Isaac Asimov's "Christmas on Ganymede" (short story, humor, free): Even fairy tales can have serious side effects!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Free fiction: 6 years worth of Astounding

Free fiction: Astounding, December 1930

Most important sf writers by decade since 1901

"Diary of a SF Addict"

"25 notable Mars books of the past decade"

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Rich Horton (ed)'s "The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition" (anthology): Annotated table of contents

A Hindi review of Hollywood movie "Avatar"

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Jonathan Strahan (ed)'s "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year", Volume 4 (anthology, 2010): Table of contents

Friday, December 18, 2009

Patricia Stewart's "An Ounce of Prevention" (flash fiction, diplomacy, free)

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Timothy Miller's "Vaccine" (flash fiction, population dystopia, free)

Rich Horton's "best of 2009" recommendations from "Jim Baen's Universe"

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", February 1948 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Free fiction: 3 stories from JBU, #22 (December 2009)

Free fiction: "Realms of Fantasy", Feburary 2010

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", December 1947 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Monday, December 14, 2009

Phredd Serenissima's "Dr Luscious Franks and the Amazing Recyclotron" (short story, mad professor, free): Curing the sickness that is "life"!

Free movie: Don Taylor's 1977 adaptation of H G Wells' novel "The Island of Dr Moreau"

Free movie: Russian movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Sunday, December 13, 2009

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", June 1939 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents