Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Christopher Anvil's "Top Rung" (short story, leadership, free): Even the man at the top needs something to look UP to

Humor: Real life "bopamagilvie"!

Real science: Firewall of China briefly controlling computers in US & Chile!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "Atomic!" (novelette, mutation, free): Precursor to Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris"?

Free fiction: Philip K Dick's "Second Variety"

Some real stempunk!

Some fiction recommendations - mix of scifi & fantasy

New story from Ted Chiang

Organizing your book library

Monday, March 29, 2010

Robert Abernathy's "The Record of Currupira" (short story, free): The origins of human speech & music

Sunday, March 28, 2010

H P Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (novelette, free): Sleeping alien awakens to claim earth!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Matt Cowens' "Waste Not" (flash fiction, energy, free)

Friday, March 26, 2010

"Astounding Science-Fiction", April 1943 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Liz Lafferty's "Life as a Drone" (flash fiction, software, humor, free)

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Gallegher Plus" (as by Lewis Padgett) (novelette, humor, free)

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Alan E Nourse's "Infinite Intruder" (novelette, grandfather paradox, free): When a man was his own grandfather!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Jack Vance's "The Miracle-Workers" (short novel, free): A future society gone retro rediscovers the scientific method

Real science: Some very cool pictures of the first test flight of Virgin Galactic's inproc VSS Enterprise space shuttle & carrier aircraft

Off topic: Google: "today we stopped censoring our search services" in China

Monday, March 22, 2010

Brendan D Carson's "The Heresy of Darren Wexmouth" (flash fiction, Christianity, free): Sorry, technology not welcome here!

ToC of forthcoming collection "Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance"

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Charles Pappas' "Different Day, Same Chip" (flash fiction, chip implants, free)

Arthur Clarke's interview with Ken Kelley for Playboy, July 1986

Saturday, March 20, 2010

David Means' "The Knocking" (short story, non-genre, humor, free): The art of driving your neighbor nuts

Free fiction: "Unknown", November 1939 (magazine)

Jury finds Peter Watts guilty

Friday, March 19, 2010

Free fiction: A year's worth of "Weird Tales"

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "The Spawn of Dagon" (short story, fantasy, free): Saving the Atlantis from sinking!

Free fiction: "Tops in Science Fiction", Spring 1953 (ed Jack O'Sullivan) (magazine)

ToCs of 6 forthcoming collections: Henry Kuttner, C L Moore, Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton, Jack Williamson

Likely erratic posting rest of this month

Paul Ernst's "The World Behind the Moon" (short story, adventure, free): Did you know earth has a second, invisible, moon too?

Free fiction: Amazing Stories, November 1947 (ed Raymond A Palmer)

Free fiction: Poul Anderson's "Outpost of Empire"

Real science: Our bacterial fingerprints!

Webscription broken links

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Late or no post tonight

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Ralph Williams' "Business as Usual, During Alterations" (novelette, free): Economic changes when copying is free

Monday, March 15, 2010

H P Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (novella, free): Intelligent sea-based amphibians have been interbreeding with humanity!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Steve Carper's "Epidemic" (flash fiction, flu, free): An unusual way of delivering medicine

2009 novels by how often they appear in various best-of-year lists

Niall Harrison lists "Some 2009 short fiction" worth looking up

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Nebula Awards 2009 - short stories: Nominees & my ranking

Friday, March 12, 2010

"Galaxy Science Fiction", Vol 1 No 2 (November 1950) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Bryant Pocock's "Drifting" (flash fiction, hard sf, free)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Shock" (as by Lewis Padgett) (short story, time travel, free): Curiosity killed the cat!

Controversy: Norman Spinrad

Free fiction: Amazing Stories, January 1950

Larry Shone's "I Don't Have a Wooden Heart"

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Malcolm Jameson's "When is When?" (short story, time travel, free)

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