Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Philip K Dick's "Paycheck" (novelette, treasure hunt, free)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Howard L Myers' "The Reluctant Weapon" (short story, space opera, free)

Monday, September 28, 2009

Happy Dashahra

21 new entries in the list of stories from John Campbell's Astounding/Analog

Best non-English sf works & authors with translations available in English

"Top Ten Science Fiction Novels"

Sunday, September 27, 2009

A E van Vogt's "The Mixed Men" aka "Mission to the Stars" (collection, space opera): Annotated table of contents & review

Saturday, September 26, 2009

I might have a fiction post later tonight

For readers not subscribed to Bot SF feed

Decoding ISBN numbers & what they tell about publishers & authors to those who can read them

Real science: "Coldest spot in the solar system"

Real science: "Round trip to the edge of cosmos"

Real science: "Water on moon" papers

"Water on moon" tidbits

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Real science: Water on moon?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Christopher Feliciano Arnold's "Light, Sweet Crude" (short story): Two ways of creating wealth are contrasted

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Henry Hasse's "He Who Shrank" (novella, adventure)

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Very erratic posts rest of this month (Navaratri + Dashahra)

Friday, September 18, 2009

Alice Sheldon's "Love is the Plan the Plan is Death" (as by James Tiptree, Jr) (short story, free): Fighting instincts can be fatal

Variety SF had its 1,00,000th visitor today

A curious observation

Bot SF feed problems

Frederic Brown's "Daymare" (novelette, murder mystery)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

No post tonight

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Margaret Atwood's "The Bad News" (short story, alternate history): A cynic's reaction to daily dose of bad news in morning papers

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A E van Vogt's "The Storm" (novelette, space opera, free)

Real science: Seas of Venus!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Paul Simms' "Attention, People of Earth" (short story, humor, free): Earth just received a "friendly" message from aliens

Free fiction: Large selection of mostly audio fiction

A very brief modern graphic commentary on an episode from "Ender's Game"

Sunday, September 13, 2009

J Francis McComas' "Brave New World" (short story, prehistoric fiction): When warriors became traders

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Isaac Asimov & Martin H Greenberg (Eds)' "Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories 5 (1943)" (anthology): Annotated table of contents & review

Free fiction: A E van Vogt's "Transgalactic" collection

Friday, September 11, 2009

Brian C Baer's "The Robot Whisperer" (flash fiction, robot debugging, free)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Two new sources tracked up by Featured Posts feed

Free fiction: A story from Mike Allen (Ed)'s "Clockwork Phoenix 2" (2009) anthology

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

No post tonight

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Q B Fox's "while (bDarwin) {" (flash fiction, software dystopia, free)

Free fiction: Roger Zelazny's "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"

Poul Anderson's "Hiding Place" (novelette, space opera): Best place to hide ... is in plain sight!

Two classes of disaster stories

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Anil Aggarwal's "The Mysterious Old Man" (short story, forensic mystery, free)

Murray Leinster's "The Machine That Saved The World" (novelette, free): Human descendants from future want to help us!

Friday, September 4, 2009

C M Kornbluth's "Gomez" (novelette, humor): Tale of a variant of Shrinivasa Ramanujan

Free fiction: Astounding, October 1930

Thursday, September 3, 2009

No post tonight ("Ganapati Visarjan")

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Ken Liu's "Single-Bit Error" (short story, religion, free): Faith = hardware bug!

Novels that trace the historical epochs of an alien civilization

Orhan Pamuk's "Distant Relations" (short story, non-genre, free): High society life in Turky some decades back

Free fiction: Astounding, June 1930