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

Locus Awards 2009 ballot is open

May not post some days next week

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Hal Clement's "Dust Rag" (short story, lunar atmosphere)

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