Friday, July 31, 2009

C M Kornbluth's "The Education of Tigress McCardle" (short story, humor): An unusual population control program

Thursday, July 30, 2009

James P Hogan's "Murphy's War" (novelette, humor, free): When computer hackers rendered a nuclear war harmless!

Ursula K Le Guin on

Free fiction: Hindi: A short story & a novel of Zeashan Zaidi

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Brian W Aldiss' "Let's Be Frank" (short story, free): How humanity became a hive intelligence

Realms of Fantasy offering free ads in its print issues to small press & semi professional magazines

"SF/F/H Book Reviewers Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition Submissions"

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

James L Cambias' "Makeover" (flash fiction, humor): Changing yourself too much to suit your lady love considered harmful

Monday, July 27, 2009

Joshua Ferris' "The Valetudinarian" (short story, non-genre, humor, free): All the lonely old man needed was shock therapy!

Free fiction: Alternate SciFiction sites

Guardian on Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants" (short story, copyrights, free)

Saturday, July 25, 2009

scifi.com links are fixed

Friday, July 24, 2009

Damon Knight's "To Serve Man" (short story, humor): An encounter with "altruistic" aliens!

Key attributes of Cordwainer Smith's fiction

A note for readers sending private messages

Murray Leinster's "Invasion" (novelette, war, free): When a "Martian" spaceship landed in Colorado, US!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Parting thoughts on Hartwell/Cramer's "Year's Best SF 14" (2009)

Hugo Award winners by number of wins

Some memorable short fiction

Might occasionally miss posting during monsoon

Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" (novel, survival, free): Hate begets hate, love begets love

A guide to major novels of Jack Vance

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Murray Leinster's "The Grandfathers' War" (novella, family dispute, free): When kids won't talk to parents...

Free fiction: scifi.com links broken, alternate links

Free fiction: George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" & "Animal Farm"

Real science: How Helium was discovered & named, & the element's Indian connection

"61 essential postmodern reads"

Sunday, July 19, 2009

John W Campbell, Jr's "The Last Evolution" (short story, singularity, free)

"Ten of the best…science fiction novels"

Free fiction: "Just Free Books"

No connectivity yesterday

Friday, July 17, 2009

Vylar Kaftan's "Pointing at the Moon" (short story, problem solving, free)

Unusual media: Significant Objects

Real science: 12 mile long Arctic monster?

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Joseph Lachance's "Subject to Change" (flash fiction, humor, free): Could universe itself be "alive"!

Free fiction: Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Guardian on Ray Bradbury

No post tomorrow night

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Mack Reynolds' "Subversive" (short story, economy, free): A case against white collar jobs!

Monday, July 13, 2009

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's "Next Door" (flash fiction, free): Sometimes, "being helpful" is extremely inadvisable!

Free fiction: Astounding, April 1930

Free fiction: Republibot

Jeff Vandermeer's "Fixing Hanover" (short story, steampunk)

Paolo Bacigalupi's "Pump Six" (novelette, dystopia, free)

Mary Rosenblum's "The Egg Man" (novelette, dystopia)

Gwyneth Jones' "Cheats" (as by Ann Halam) (short story, computer games)

Kathleen Ann Goonan's "Memory Dog" (novelette)

M Rickert's "Traitor" (short story)

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Carolyn Ives Gilman's "Arkfall" (novella, adventure, free)

Friday, July 10, 2009

Karl Schroeder & Tobias S Buckell's "Mitigation" (short story, environment): When a robbery did some good too!

Free fiction: From Bleiler Checklist (1978), part 4 (Breton-Caryl)

Claire Messud's "Land Divers" (short story, non-genre, free): Three adventures of an Australian 8-year old

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Some good short fiction of Fritz Leiber

Free fiction: From Ellen Datlow's forthcoming "Digital Domains"

Free fiction: The Human Genre Project

PC World looks at technology in Gibson's "Neuromancer", now 25 years old

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Alastair Reynolds' "Fury" (novelette, space opera): Punishment for crimes committed long long ago

Average age of Analog & Asimov's subscribers = 59 years!

Monday, July 6, 2009

4 newly filled up entries in Hartwell & Cramer (Ed)'s "Year's Best SF 14" (2009)