Thursday, September 30, 2010

Samuel R Delany's "Aye, and Gomorrah" (short story, free): Fetish of sexually normal towards sexually abnormal

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Theodore Sturgeon's "What Dead Men Tell" (novelette, puzzle, free): Need to pass test to join immortality brigade

Monday, September 27, 2010

Tom Godwin's "No Species Alone" (novelette, alien invasion, free): Snakes are afraid of cats!

New at Project Gutenberg (27 September 2010)

Michael Shaara's "Wainer" (short story, evolution, free): What's it like to be an evolutionary link!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Vaughan Stanger's "Dark they were, and strange inside" (flash fiction, weird physics, free): Dangers of blind dating

Friday, September 24, 2010

"Fantastic Universe", Vol 1 No 1 (June-July 1953) (ed Sam Merwin, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Vern Fearing's "The Sloths of Kruvny" (short story, humor, free): Why the hell is there no war!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A E van Vogt's "War of Nerves" (novelette, space opera, free): Cultures reach an _inferior_ stage, & then forever stay there!

A E van Vogt's "Space Beagle" series of short stories

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

George R R Martin's "... for a single yesterday" (novelette, free): Some choices can be so hard

Saturday, September 18, 2010

"Clarkesworld", #48 (September 2010) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Friday, September 17, 2010

"Other Worlds Science Stories", Vol 1 No 4 (May 1950) (ed Raymond A Palmer) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Eric Frank Russell's "It's in the Blood" (short story, tragedy, free): Don't force your career choice on your child

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Alfred Coppel's "Turnover Point" (short story, revenge, free): A man avenges the killing of his son

Milton Lesser's "Prison of a Billion Years" (as by C H Thames) (short story, evolution, free): All life on earth is ultimately descended from...

RIP: E C Tubb - 15 October 1919 to 10 September 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Some recommended works of Heinlein

Monday, September 13, 2010

Eric Frank Russell's "The Army Comes to Venus" aka "Sustained Pressure" (novelette, Christianity, free): Persistence pays

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Kevin Hosey's "IT!" (flash fiction, first contact, free)

Friday, September 10, 2010

"Fantastic Universe", Vol 11 No 3 (May 1959) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Might skip posting a few days this fortnight

Jack Vance's "The Mitr" (short story): Man is sometimes so heartless

New at Project Gutenberg (9 September 2010)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

A E van Vogt's "Final Command" (short story, revolution, free): A man helps contain a revolution by robot slaves

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Peter Watts' "The Island" (novelette, space opera, free): Life cannot be peaceful

New at Project Gutenberg (6 September 2010)

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Joe Haldeman's "More Than the Sum of His Parts" (short story, free): A man's transformation into a cyborg, then monster

Hugo awards 2010: winners announced

"Astounding Science-Fiction", March 1940 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "The Creature From Beyond Infinity" aka "A Million Years to Conquer" (novel, free): Superfast evolution considered harmful

Friday, September 3, 2010

No post tonight

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Sam Merwin, Jr's "A World Apart" (short story, time travel, free)

Free fiction: 6 stories of Christopher Anvil

10 websites for free audiobooks

Next big trend or movement in sf

Robert H Wilson's "Out Around Rigel" (novelette, free): An adventure with relativity implications