Free fiction: Lots of stories of Greg Bear & H P Lovecraft

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Free fiction: Abraham Merritt, Greg Bear

1. G W Thomas links a lot of online stories of Abraham Merritt at Dark Worlds (some appear to be under pseudonyms).
2. Free SF Reader links Greg Bear's collection Sleepside at Webscription. 3 stories from collection are online.
   
   He also links MP3 audio of one of these stories, "Webster", at Internet Archive.

Gary K Wolfe names his last year's pick from normal, revolutionary, & middle ground scifi novels

At Locus Roundtable.

For a "best of" list, his is a slightly unusual post - names 1 novel each that represents the familiar, future, & middle ground:

1. Normal: "Paul McAuley’s The Quiet War. In terms of the familiar literary merits of character, plot, and style, it’s one of his very best novels—but as SF it’s essentially conservative, representing a 23rd-century interplanetary war of the sort we’ve seen often before, but seldom with such attention to current science and such political and psychological acumen."
2. Revolutionary: "Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, which may draw on a number of familiar SF tropes, but which seems to violate nearly every principle we’ve inherited about what SF usually is—in terms not only of its massive length, its leisurely pacing (at least in the opening few hundred pages), its language, its humor, its preoccupations with systems, puzzles, and entire philosophical systems for their own sake. Like much revolutionary science, it may take some years for us to realize its full effect on the field, as people actually begin to finish it."
3. Blend: "Greg Bear’s City at the End of Time ... both hauntingly familiar and energetically innovative."

Related: "best of" lists.

Greg Bear contrasts SFF with literary fiction, from SFF author's perspective

@Locus: "We spend far too much time thinking about science and nature, not so much time puzzling over the vagaries of fashion and social interaction".

* Greg Bear's "Tangents" (short story, science fiction)

A very gifted boy, under tutelage of mathematician dealing in multi-dimensional space can see in the forth dimension! He sees creatures & life there. Rigs up a musical instrument to attract their attention. The two will eventually go with them traveling in 4D space - off our limited 3D space!

Collected in.

1. David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF".
   

Fact sheet.

First published: Omni, January 1986.
Rating: C

Note: Why is this post so short?