Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Robert Moore Williams' "The Sound of Bugles" (short story)

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Adventure involving a well intentioned human researcher & a greedy human villain - both trying to figure out how Martians are able to l...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Roger Dee's "The Obligation" (novelette, free, first contact): An alien's adventures at a human camp on Venus

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A shape-shifting surveyor ("Cseth Abrii of Pselpha from the binary suns Kornephoros") from an alien elder race saves a human fi...
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Donald A Wollheim (ed)'s "Adventures on Other Planets" (anthology)

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Table of contents. [novelette] Roger Dee 's " The Obligation " (B); read online ; Startling Stories , September 1952 : ...
Monday, January 5, 2015

C H Robinson's "Longhead: The story of the first fire" (novella, free): Down of human civilization

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Longhead, a man from a time before there were homo sapiens , accidentally discovers fire & helps kickstart the ideas that would start t...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

Jules Verne's "Ticket No '9672'" aka "The Lottery Ticket" (novel, non-genre, free): Introducing idyllic Norwegian countryside

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I actually picked it up expecting an adventure, & got disappointed. It's readable enough, if you are in mood for a slow moving stor...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

Anand Neelakantan's "Asura" (novel): Retelling Ramayan from the point of view of Ravan!

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This post may not make a lot of sense for readers outside South Asia. Ramayan is a well known epic here, & my commentary below assumes...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Mangalyaan, India's maiden Mars probe, is now orbiting Mars!

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@ ISRO .
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