Saturday, October 30, 2010

Bhavin Jankharia's "A new tiger roars!" (flash fiction, political fable, free)

"Venture Science Fiction", #9 (Vol 2 No 3) (May 1958) (ed Robert P Mills) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Friday, October 29, 2010

Eric James Stone's "The greatest science-fiction story ever written" (flash fiction, humor, free)

Some "brilliant" but forgotten SF books

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Philip K Dick's "Piper in the Woods" (short story, free): A world that turns men into plants!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Eric Frank Russell's "Venturer of the Martian Mimics" aka "I, Spy" aka "Spiro" (novelette, detective, free): Exploits of a Martian spy on earth

Monday, October 25, 2010

Giri Vijayakumar's "Genome" (flash fiction, humor, free): Capitalism at work to contain mosquito breeding!

John Gilbey's "Corrective action" (flash fiction, fatal software bug, free)

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Voltaire's "The Dog and the Horse" (short story, non-genre, free): Never look at pugmarks of royal animals!

Friday, October 22, 2010

"Weird Tales", Vol 38 No 4 (May 1947) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations & Other Stories" (ed Eric Flint) (collection, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

H L Gold's "No Charge for Alterations" (novelette, free): A society that alters its members psychologically & physically, as needed!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Eric Frank Russell's "Afternoon of a Fahn" aka "Rainbow's End" (short story, free): When human explorers landed on a "trap" world

Monday, October 18, 2010

Subterranean Online, Summer (July-September) 2010 (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Free fiction: Weird Tales, May 1947

Sunday, October 17, 2010

"Robot" (Hindi, English) aka "Enthiran" (Tamil) aka "Robo" (Telugu) (movie, 2010): A review of various robot & monster tropes

Saturday, October 16, 2010

No post for 3 nights, beginning tonight (Navaratri weekend + Dashahra)

Thursday, October 14, 2010

"Startling Stories", Vol 24 No 2 (November 1951) (ed Samuel Mines) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

What if I were to edit a short fiction anthology?

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" (novella, free): Training AIs takes a lot of time & commitment

Monday, October 11, 2010

Winston K Marks' "Unbegotten Child" (short story, cancer, free): Evolution's retaliation against birth control!

Clyde Brown's "First Man" (short story, humor, free): Record of the first manned trip to moon

Friday, October 8, 2010

"Imagination: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy", Vol 2 No 2 (April 1951) (ed William L Hamling) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

No post tomorrow (Saturday) night

Thursday, October 7, 2010

William P McGivern's "The Chameleon Man" (short story, invisible man, free)

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

No post tonight

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Eric Frank Russell's "Postscript" aka "P.S." (short story, philosophy, free): How appearances affect our perception

Tom Godwin's "Empathy" (novelette, bureaucracy, free): Actions speak louder than words

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Eric Brown's "Laying the Ghost" (short story, grief, free)

Saturday, October 2, 2010

"Science Fiction Plus", Vol 1 No 6 (October 1953) (ed Hugo Gernsback) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

A couple of funny stories based on Mahatma Gandhi's ideas

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