Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Fred Warren's "Bullies With Big Fat Heads" (flash fiction, alien invasion, free)

Brief summaries of several short stories of H G Wells

Free fiction: Astounding Stories, August 1931

Best new stories of 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Winston K Marks' "Tabby" (short story, alien invasion, free): Spiders as aliens' weapon to kill all land life on earth!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Jay Lake's "The Dead Man's Child" (short story, star travel, free)

Paul Di Filippo's "A science-fiction fantasy" (flash fiction, free): An alternate history of science fiction & its development

New at Project Gutenberg (26 June 2010)

Real science: Africa in the process of physically splitting into 2 pieces!

Locus Awards 2010: Winners announced

Saturday, June 26, 2010

"Astounding Science Fiction", June 1955 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Berkeley Livingston's "Death of a B.E.M." (short story, humor, free): A parody of bug-eyed monster stories

Good space operas

Humor: Cartoon: Another kind of Jurassic Park

Decoding "Dune"

Real science: 1958 version of an IBM "hard disk"

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Henry Kuttner's "Dark Dawn" (as by Keith Hammond) (short story, adventure, free)

New at Project Gutenberg (24 June 2010)

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Stanley Mullen's "Master of the Moondog" (novelette, adventure, free): Treasure hunt on moon

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Fritz Leiber, Jr's "The Mutant's Brother" (short story, telepathy, free)

Monday, June 21, 2010

No post tonight; may miss tomorrow too

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Junot Díaz's "The Pura Principle" (short story, non-genre, free): Mother's pain from a sick irresponsible grown son

New at Project Gutenberg (20 June 2010)

William Tenn's "The Ghost Standard" (short story, farce): Defining what is "human"

Saturday, June 19, 2010

New at Project Gutenberg (19 June 2010)

Friday, June 18, 2010

"Thrilling Wonder Stories", Spring 1945 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

New at Project Gutenberg (18 June 2010)

RIP: Everett F Bleiler, 1920-2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

New at Project Gutenberg (17 June 2010)

Free fiction: Audio of Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps"

Some supposedly good short story collections

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Winston K Marks' "Forsyte's Retreat" (short story, humor, free): Fun managing a 4D hotel!

New at Project Gutenberg (16 June 2010)

For readers who weren't regulars a year back

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Clifford D Simak's "The World That Couldn't Be" (novelette, first contact, free): Hunting an unkillable "animal"

New at Project Gutenberg (15 June 2010)

Monday, June 14, 2010

Ursula K Le Guin's "The Word For World is Forest" (novella): Natives throw out ruthless & evil colonists

New at Project Gutenberg (14 June 2010)

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sean Craven's "Tourists" (short story, horror, free)

New at Project Gutenberg (13 June 2010)

"SF Materworks" series

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Ian Tregillis' "What Doctor Gottlieb Saw" (short story, free): A telepathic woman grabs control of a WWII German training camp

New at Project Gutenberg (12 June 2010)

Motifs in J G Ballard's short fiction

Friday, June 11, 2010

"Galaxy Magazine", Vol 16 No 5 (September 1958) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

New at Project Gutenberg (11 June 2010)

Winston K Marks' "Mate in Two Moves" (novelette, plague, free): A highly infectious virus that makes people fall in love!

New at Project Gutenberg (10 June 2010)

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Roger Dee's "The Anglers of Arz" (short story, perspective inversion, free): Some very unusual "fishing"

Free fiction: Space Science Fiction, March 1953

New at Project Gutenberg (9 June 2010)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Philip K Dick's "Second Variety" (novelette, doomsday, free): Retelling Joseph Kelleam's "Rust"

New at Project Gutenberg (8 June 2010)