Showing posts with label AntiSF 139. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AntiSF 139. Show all posts

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Aidan Doyle's "Upgrade" (flash fiction, Frankenstein, free)

This actually sounded a lot like Henry Kuttner 's "By These Presents" - a man makes a deal with the devil: make me immortal from everything except suicide, & you can have my soul if I ever do commit suicide!

Here we have a couple of robots - one in the role of Kuttner's devil, another in the role of Kuttner's human. End & motivations, of course, are different from Kuttner's story.

Fact sheet.

First published: AntiSF, #139 (January 2010).
Download full text from publisher's site.
Rating: B.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Jamie Richter's "Aloha Or Bust" (flash fiction, humor, free)

Someone is putting pressure on a spaceship captain to make a detour to pick up some VIP passengers. But the captain is adamant, until he learns that the VIPs are...

Fact sheet.

First published: AntiSF, #139 (January 2010).
Download full text from publisher's site.
Rating: B.