Tuesday, July 27, 2010

No post for may be a week beginning tomorrow or day after

L Sprague de Camp's "Finished" (short story, free): Knowledge finds a way around "sanctions"

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Alfred Coppel's "The Invader" (short story, alien invasion, humor, free)

For authors: Heinlein on his story writing technique

Some recommended short fiction anthologies

Ted Chiang on his writing technique, sf vs fantasy, & some other things

"Lightspeed", #1 (June 2010) (ed John Joseph Adams) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Friday, July 23, 2010

"Astounding Science Fiction", October 1949 (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Walter M Miller, Jr's "Check and Checkmate" (novelette, diplomacy, free): An unusual weapon for diplomatic haggling & espionage

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Frank Belknap Long's "The Trap" (short story, first contact, free): Life can exist as pure shape too!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Clark Ashton Smith's "Xeethra" (short story, fantasy, free): From goat-herd to king & back to goat-herd

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

John W Campbell, Jr's "Forgetfulness" (as by Don A Stuart) (novelette, first contact): Technological progress involves forgetting old knowledge

Sunday, July 18, 2010

David Barr Kirtley's "Cats in Victory" (short story, religion, free): Crusaders spare the lives of world's last living "animals"

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Bruce W Ferguson's "Goliath" (flash fiction, humor, free)

Peter Flom on some short fiction of John Varley

Paul on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Ghosts"

Free fiction: Basement Stories

Free fiction: The Absent Willow Review

Free fiction: "New Dead Families"

Friday, July 16, 2010

"Galaxy Science Fiction", Vol 9 No 4 (January 1955) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Real science: Some very interesting tidbits about space

An index to nouns in "Red Mars"

No post tonight

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Raymond Z Gallun's "Stamped Caution" (novelette, first contact, free): Humans-Martians successfully make peaceful first contact

Free fiction: James P Hogan's novel "Inherit the Stars"

The origins of Barry N Malzberg's pseudonym "K M O'Donnell"

Real science: Moon map (1829)

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

E M Hull's "Abdication" (short story, free): A rich man manipulates another rich man

Free fiction: 13 stories of Terry Bisson

RIP: James P Hogan (27 June 1941 - 12 July 2010)

Monday, July 12, 2010

Joanna Russ' "When It Changed" (short story, free): It's a women's world!

And the Campbell Award goes to ... novel that Campbell would have disliked most!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Ian R MacLeod's "Recrossing the Styx" (short story, immortality, free): A machine that forces your partner to love you!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

K S Kim's "Senility" (flash fiction, old age, free)

Prescience, precognition & free will in science fiction

For authors: Beware of Night Shade Books

Friday, July 9, 2010

"Startling Stories", "Thrilling Wonder Stories", & "Fantastic Story Magazine" as a single magazine issue - Summer 1955 (magazine, free): Annotated ToC

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Alan E Nourse's "Marley's Chain" (short story, racism, free): What if racial prejudice in the US reversed color?

Real science: The first step towards "The Proud Robot"!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Henry Kuttner & C L Moore's "Open Secret" (as by Lewis Padgett) (short story, free): Men have created a monster

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Poul Anderson's "Sargasso of Lost Starships" (novella, space opera, free): Humans humble god-like aliens

Free fiction: Eric Frank Russell's "Sole Solution"

Noel Miller Loomis' "You Too Can Be A Millionaire" (short story, insurance dystopia, free): Another kind of "Midas Plague"

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Charles Coleman Finlay's "Your Life Sentence" (short story, dystopia, free): Where pre-born too have all the human rights...

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Paolo Bacigalupi's "Small Offerings" (short story, population dystopia, free)

Some old novels posted to Internet Archive today

Friday, July 2, 2010

"Astounding Science Fiction", Vol XLIV, No 3 (November 1949) (ed John W Campbell, Jr) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

New at Project Gutenberg (2 July 2010)

Ray Bradbury's "The Disease"

Redstone Science Fiction

Science fiction dealing with the idea of "sanity", including its weird forms

No post tonight

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Bud Sparhawk's "Encounter in a Yellow Wood" (short story, free): There's a human problem with long gestation projects...

Some websites that host public domain fiction