Showing posts with label Lloyd Biggle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lloyd Biggle. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Lloyd Biggle, Jr's "Monument" (novelette, colonialism, free): Non-violent, non-Gandhian, resistance against colonialism

So far, the only stories of peacefully & successfully fighting off the far more militarily powerful alien colonists I've read have been Gandhian. This one is different. And beautiful resolution.

Story summary.

An unnamed alien world, later in the story named Langri - after the local name of a human who foresaw their doom & gave them tools to fight it. An idyllic world human colonists want to grab. A lot of things happen, many of them familiar ones, until the natives throw their masterstroke.

Fact sheet.

First published: Analog, June 1961.
Download full text from Webscription. [via Bill Garthright @ ClassicScienceFiction Yahoo group].
Rating: A.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
Nominated for Hugo Award 1962.
Related: Stories of Lloyd Biggle.

Friday, September 10, 2010

"Fantastic Universe", Vol 11 No 3 (May 1959) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents

Cover, designed by Norman Siegel, of Fantastic Universe magazine, May 1959 issue
Scans of this magazine in CBR format are online as part of a larger package.

Table of contents. 

Links on author fetch more fiction by author.

  1. [novelet] Eric Frank Russell's "The Army Comes to Venus": "He was secretly surprised to find himself enjoying this spell of gallantry. But worse was to happen."
  2. Robert F Young's "The Wistful Witch": "Anybody might think that she wanted to be a witch--& anybody thinking so would have been correct."
  3. Ron Goulart's "Parlor Game": "Luanne made it almost a challenge. She really was pretty. And there were so few women on Prospero II."
  4. Sam Rosenfeld's "Citizen Meekle": "What happens when a little man who's not aggressive--but who does dream--finally makes a startling discovery?"
  5. Lloyd Biggle's "Traveling Salesman": "The Feds were getting tough. It was costing too much to distribute the stuff. He'd probably have to go away..."
  6. Joy Leache's "Miss Millie's Rose": "a very different story about Tomorrow's Mars."

    'The Customs man announced he had an old dame there "with one of them Jap trees." How was he to know what'd happen?'
  7. John Victor Peterson's "The Amnesic Men": "Venus! She remembered the harsh record of hostory & shuddered at the thought of the many men who had died."
  8. G Harry Stine's "Letter from Tomorrow" (as by Lee Correy): "Maybe the man was nutty as a fruitcake. Maybe he thought he was a little green man--& maybe he was very sane..."

See also.

  1. Fiction from Fantastic Universe.
  2. Fiction from old "pulp" magazines.
  3. Fiction from 1950s.

Notes.

  1. There is no mention of editor on ToC page, though Hans Stefan Santesson is noted as the "Editorial Director".

Friday, June 11, 2010

"Galaxy Magazine", Vol 16 No 5 (September 1958) (ed H L Gold) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents & review

Cover by DEMBER showing Preparing Antarctica for Solar Conference of Galaxy Magazine, September 1958 issue
This magazine is online at Internet Archive in multiple formats.
Caution: I've linked it in the past, but without ToC. Regulars might already have a local copy.
Note: Galaxy seems to have changed its name from "Galaxy Science Fiction" to "Galaxy Magazine" some time in 1958. But the transition month listed by ISFDB is wrong.

Two very well known stories here - "The Ugly Little Boy" & "A Slight Case of Sunstroke", but both appear here under their less well known alternate titles. "Thing of Beauty" also seems to be widely anthologized, but I haven't personally read it yet.

Table of contents (6 stories, best first, unread last).

Links on author fetch more fiction by author. For read stories, my rating is in brackets. For stories that have their own post, link on story title goes there.
  1. [novella] Isaac Asimov's "Lastborn" aka "The Ugly Little Boy" (A): "A scientific experiment or not, the patient was her responsibility ... and all the more so for having died so many centuries ago!"
  2. [ss] Arthur C Clarke's "The Stroke of the Sun" aka "A Slight Case of Sunstroke" (A): '"Kill the umpire!" the audience cried—and why shouldn't they? He was on the ball, wasn't he?'
  3. [novelet] Rosel George Brown's "From an Unseen Censor": "You can't beat my Uncle Isadora—he's dead but he's quick — yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!"
  4. [novelet] Damon Knight's "Thing of Beauty": "There was the gizmo that could put Gordon Fish in the chips — or right in the soup — and he didn't know which he was ordering!"
  5. [ss] Lloyd Biggle, Jr's "On the Double": "Failure was impossible — they had the one true formula: the victor belongs to the spoils!"
  6. [ss] H L Gold's "Personnel Problem": "Mng engnr wanted: duties it, gravity ditto, unitd opptnty advcmt—as anythg but engnr!"

Related.

  1. Fiction from Galaxy.
  2. "Pulp" magazines.
  3. Works of H L Gold.
  4. Fiction from 1950s.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Free fiction: Christopher Anvil, Vernor Vinge, Lloyd Biggle

These are 2 or 3 months old links that were lost in my bookmarks.

Via Free SF Reader: 6 stories from Christopher Anvil's collection "Rx for Chaos" aka "Prescription for Chaos" at Webscription:

  1. "Cinderella, Inc"; download; Imagination, December 1952.
  2. "Roll Out The Rolov!"; download; Imagination, November 1953.
  3. "The New Boccaccio"; download; Analog, January 1965.
  4. "A Handheld Primer"; download; Amazing, January 1978.
  5. "Rx For Chaos"; download; Analog, February 1964.
  6. "Is Everybody Happy?"; download; Analog, April 1968.
Via Free SF Reader: 5 stories from Christopher Anvil's collection "The Trouble With Aliens" at Webscription:
  1. "The Prisoner"; download; Astounding, February 1956.
  2. "Seller's Market"; download; Astounding, December 1958.
  3. "Top Rung"; download; Astounding, July 1958.
  4. "Symbols"; download; Analog, September 1966.
  5. "Foghead"; download; Astounding, September 1958.
Three stories from Martin H Greenberg & Mark Tier (Ed)'s anthology "Freedom!" at Webscription:
  1. Lloyd Biggle, Jr's "Monument"; download; Astounding, June 1961.
  2. Christopher Anvil's "Gadget vs Trend"; download; Analog, October 1962.
  3. Vernor Vinge's "The Ungoverned"; download; Far Frontiers, Vol 3 (1985).