Sunday, February 28, 2010

H P Lovecraft's "Dagon" (short story, free): A man discovers a still thriving ancient undersea civilization!

Free fiction: Asimov's Nebula Award 2009 nominees

No post tomorrow (Holi)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Nebula Awards 2009 - novelettes: Nominees & my ranking

Mark Pontin lists a half dozen favorite classics (novels)

"The Art of Penguin Science Fiction"

Real science: "Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of Luxembourg"

Friday, February 26, 2010

"Famous Fantastic Mysteries", Vol 8 No 2 (December 1946) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Charles Stross describes publisher's workflow to turn manuscript to a book

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "By These Presents" aka "Satan Sends Flowers" (short story, immortality, free)

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mike Resnick's "Voyages" (collection): Annotated table of contents & review

Mike Resnick's "Heads and Tails in Paradise" (short story, non-genre, humor, free): When Lucifer Jones was god!

Free fiction: F&SF's two Nebula 2009 nominees

Some recommended Heinlein novels

Free fiction: Audio of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" at LibriVox.

Science fiction vs historical fiction

Charles Stross outlines the general structure of publishing industry

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Anthony Boucher's "One-way Trip" (novelette, slow glass, free)

Monday, February 22, 2010

Rachel Swirsky's "A Memory of Wind" (novelette, feminist dystopia, free): An innocent girl is killed by her monster of a father

Graham Sleigh briefly looks at some stories of Bob Shaw

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Free fiction: Arthur Clarke's "Superiority", plus Eric Frank Russell, Murray Leinster, & Keith Laumer

ToC of forthcoming collection "Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories", edited by Jonathan Strahan, is online

Loonies illustrated

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Irvin S Cobb's "Fishhead" (short story, racism, bkp): Racist murderers get their due

This year's Nebula award nominees announced

Friday, February 19, 2010

"Galaxy Science Fiction", Vol 1 No 5 (February 1951) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Robert Heinlein's "Space Jockey" (short story, hard sf, free): Nitty-gritty of regular earth-to-moon travel

For authors: Call for submissions for Speculative Ramayan anthology

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Fredric Brown's "Nothing Sirius" (short story, first contact, free): Adventure on an alien world

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "Happy Ending" (short story, humor, free): When a man got what he "desired"!

Hayakawa's SF Magazine's All-Time Best SF: short fiction, novels, & authors

Monday, February 15, 2010

Mike Resnick's "Harboring Pearls" (short story, non-genre, humor, free)

Sunday, February 14, 2010

David G Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Eds)' "Year's Best SF 15" (2010, anthology): Annotated table of contents & review

"Twelve Greatest Living Science Fiction Writers"

Frederik Pohl on some stories of William Tenn

Sharon Lee lists a few favorite short stories

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Nancy Kress' "Exegesis" (flash fiction, humor, free): How language evolves...

Free fiction: Audio of several stories of William Tenn

Real science: Bill Gates on clean energy

Experimenting with Twitter

Friday, February 12, 2010

"Astounding Science Fiction", July 1958 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "Ghost" (short story, free): Exorcising a computer center of its resident ghost!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

L Sprague de Camp's "Alanias" (novelette, war, free): A device to turn people into "pathological liars"!

Free fiction: Lot of online fiction at Munseys Mobile

Optical illusion: "A simple yet effective levitation"

"Stories you wouldn’t know are Martian Science Fiction", Volume 5

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Robert A Heinlein's "Delilah and the Space-Rigger" (short story, hard sf, humor, free): Ensuring sex-neutral employment opportunities

Feeds are all ok now

Monday, February 8, 2010

Claire Keegan's "Foster" (novelette, non-genre, free)

RIP: William Tenn: 9 May 1920 - 7 February 2010

Free fiction: C J Cherryh recommends some fiction from Project Gutenberg for "very young readers"

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Larry Niven's "Plaything" (flash fiction, hard sf): Mars rover meet Martians

Free fiction: Some online stories of Leigh Brackett

Tale of 2 recent Hindi movies featuring geeks: "3 idiots" & "Pyaar impossible!"

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