Sunday, May 30, 2010

Maria's "A Different Person" (short story, dementia, free)

New at Project Gutenberg (30 May 2010)

Microfiction: H G Wells distilled

Stephen Ross' "The Trouble With QWERTY" (short story, humor, free): Be polite to your computer!

New at Project Gutenberg (29 May 2010)

Friday, May 28, 2010

"Galaxy Science Fiction", Vol 7 No 5-A (February 1954) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

New at Project Gutenberg (28 May 2010)

Harry Gore Bishop's "On The Martian Way" (short story, interplanetary commerce, free)

Jonathan Franzen's "Agreeable" (short story, non-genre, free): A teenager's alienation from parents

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "What Hath Me" (novelette, adventure, free): Good & evil posthumans fight, using a man as tool

New at Project Gutenberg (27 May 2010)

Malcolm Jameson's "Alien Envoy" (short story, first contact, free): Friendly aliens want a trade treaty

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Judith Merril's "Exile from Space" (novelette, first contact, free): Human girl, raised by aliens, returns home

(Canadian) Prix/Aurora Awards 2010: Winners announced

New at Project Gutenberg (24-25 May 2010)

William Tenn's "Project Hush" (short story, satire): On military secrecy

Monday, May 24, 2010

E G von Wald's "Fair and Warmer" (short story, free): Where intellectual curiosity is a disease!

New at Project Gutenberg (23 May 2010)

May not post tomorrow

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Murray Leinster's "The Invaders" (novella, first contact, free): What could aliens technologically only a few centuries ahead of us want from us?

New at Project Gutenberg (22 May 2010)

Off-topic: Encrypted Google search

Friday, May 21, 2010

"Astounding Science Fiction", November 1945 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Jesting Pilot" (as by Lewis Padgett) (short story, free): Hypnotized are looking for reality

Paolo Bacigalupi on environment

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Murray Leinster's "Sam, This is You" (short story, humor, free): Girlfriend trouble due to cross-time talking!

"What science fiction books should be in every fan's library?"

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Poul Anderson's "The Sensitive Man" (novella, free): A superman rescues a hostage

Quotes from Poul Anderson's "The Sensitive Man"

Monday, May 17, 2010

Eric Frank Russell's "Three To Conquer" aka "Call Him Dead" (novel, alien invasion): Invasion by intelligent microbial parasites of Venus

Free fiction: Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June 1961

New at Project Gutenberg (17 May 2010)

ophiucha's "Top 10 Underrated Sci-Fi Stories Before 1864"

Different phases of John Varley's career

For those looking for a story about recent volcanic eruption in Iceland that disrupted European air traffic

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Some recent B-fiction (16 May 2010)

Nebula Awards 2009: Winners announced

Free fiction: Galaxy, September 1958

New at Project Gutenberg (16 May 2010)

Asimov's & Analog Readers' Poll winners for fiction originally published during 2009

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Sruthi Thekkiam's "Friday Afternoons on Bus 51" (short story, non-genre free): A very Indian love story!

Free fiction: Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, February 1960

New at Project Gutenberg (15 May 2010)

"Million Writers Award top ten stories of 2009"

Various pen names of Frederik Pohl

Mark Bould, Andrew M Butler, Adam Roberts, & Sherryl Vint (eds)' "The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction" (2009): Reading lists

New at Project Gutenberg (14 May 2010)

Larry Shone's brief comments on some genre works

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "The Eyes Of Thar" (short story, first contact, free): A meeting of two universes

New at Project Gutenberg (13 May 2010)

New at Project Gutenberg (12 May 2010)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Isaac Asimov's "Youth" (novelette, first contact, free): On daring of the young

New at Project Gutenberg (11 May 2010)

Real science: Some optical illusions, courtesy of Scientific American

Monday, May 10, 2010

Nathan Englander's "Free Fruit for Young Widows" (short story, non-genre, free): Turning a man into a monster

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