Flash Fiction Online #107, August 2022 “Moon Eater & Housekeeping” by Adam Piñon Kerkman “No One Sleeps on an Empty Stomach” by Lucy Zhang “Instructions for Bottling Tornadoes: Please Read Before You Leave” by Marie Croke “Scarlet Fever” by Stefanie Freele (reprint, not reviewed)
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Interzone #292/293, July 2022
Interzone 292/293, July 2022 “Climbing Stories” by Aliya Whiteley “Wet Dreams” by Rich Larson “The Pain Barrier” by Alexander Glass “The Faerie Engine” by Alexander Glass “The Soul Doctors” by Alexander Glass “Thank You, Clicking Person” by Jeff Noon “Subira’s Lattice” by Val Nolan “Walking in From the West” by Charles Wilkinson “Wind, River, Angel …
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Read More...Nick Carter, Master Detective — “The Case of the Sick Statue”
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1943-1955) aired “The Case of the Sick Statue” on August 12, 1945. This is the 17th Nick Carter episode we’ve run since 2009. Carter’s history is long, covers numerous media, and is one of the more fascinating we’ve come upon. To crib from one of our earlier entries for new listeners, …
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Read More...Clarkesworld #191, August 2022
Clarkesworld #191, August 2022 “Tender, Tether, Shell” by M. J. Pettit “Pollatomish” by Finbarr O’Reilly “Slight Forms” by R.T. Ester “Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper” by Derrick Boden “The Pirate’s Consigliere” by Bo Balder “Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System” by Carrie Vaughn “The Scene of the Crime” by Leonard Richardson
Read More...Night Beat — “Long Live the Clown”
Night Beat (1950-52) aired “Long Live the Clown” on May 8, 1952 as its 93rd episode out of approximately 118 (depending on how one counts). Some 80 episodes are estimated to remain in circulation. This radio noir “detective” show featured film–-and later TV–-star Frank Lovejoy (1912-1962) as Randy Stone, the night beat reporter for the …
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Read More...Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos, ed. Stephen Lawson
Robosoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos edited by Stephen Lawson (Baen, June 2022, 352 pp, pb) “Higher Ground” by M.T. Reiten “Today I Go Home” by Martin L. Shoemaker “All Is One” by Doug Beason “Edge Case” by Richard Fox “Manchurian”by Sean Patrick Hazlett “Resilience” by Monalisa Foster “The Rules of the Game” by …
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Read More...Tor.com, July 2022
Tor.com, July 2022 “The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch” by Garth Nix “In Mercy, Rain” by Seanan McGuire “Grow” by Carrie Vaughn “This Place Is Best Shunned” by David Erik Nelson
Read More...Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, July 2022
Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, July 2022 “Reality Show” by Brian K. Lowe
Read More...Lightspeed #146, July 2022
Lightspeed #146, July 2022 “Critical Mass” by Peter Watts “Liberty: Seeking Support for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for a Non-Human Being” by Samuel Peralta (reprint, not reviewed) “Singing the Ancient Out of the Dark” by R J Theodore and Maurice Broaddus “Ursus Frankensteinus” by Rich Larson “The Rustle of Growing Things” by Isabel Cañas …
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Read More...Dangerous Assignment — “Words Are Mightier Than The Sword”
“Yeah, danger is my assignment– I get sent to a lot of places I can’t even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though—trouble!” Dangerous Assignment (1949-53) aired “Words Are Mightier Than The Sword” on April 21, 1951. Since this is only the sixth episode of Dangerous Assignment we’ve offered since the first in February …
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