Beneath Ceaseless Skies #347, January 13, 2022 “Chrysalis” by Marie Brennan “Three Songs to Fill Up the Shadow” by Spencer Ellsworth
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The Adventures of Sam Spade — “The Betrayal in Bumpus Hell”
The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946-1951) aired “The Betrayal in Bumpus Hell” on January 16, 1949 as its 122nd episode of approximately 243, only 74 of which are still in circulation (this includes 12 AFRS repeats and 2 rehearsal shows). We have previously aired but four episodes of this show, the first in 2014, then …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346, January 1, 2022
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #346, January 1, 2022 “Redfin Spine” by Jonathan Olfert “To Embody a Wildfire Starting” by Iona Datt Sharma
Read More...Flash Fiction Online #100, January 2022
Flash Fiction Online #100, January 2022 “The Hundred Hidden Kisses” by Carol Scheina “The Recipe Keeper” by Beth Cato “The Lighthouse Keepers Guide to Pulau Belakang Mati” by Wen-Yi Lee “Hundreds” by Mari Ness (reprint, not reviewed)
Read More...Weird World War IV, ed. by Sean Patrick Hazlett
Weird World War IV Edited by Sean Patrick Hazlett (Baen Books, March 2022, tpb, 352 pp.) “Deep Trouble” by Jonathan Maberry “The Big Whimper (The Further Adventurers of Rex, Two Million CE)” by Laird Barron “Reflections in Lizard-Time” by Brian Trent “The Transformation Problem” by Nick Mamatas “Triplicate” by Freddy Costello and Michael Z. Williamson …
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Read More...Galaxy’s Edge #54, January/February 2022
Galaxy’s Edge #54, January/February 2022 “Hive at the Dead Star” by Lucas Carroll-Garrett “Echoes of Gliese” by Christopher Henckel “Hothouse Flowers” by Mike Resnick (reprint, not reviewed) “Worrywart” by Effie Seiberg “Brock’s Grotesquery” by Galen Westlake “Ishmael in Love” by Robert Silverberg (reprint, not reviewed) “As Old as He is Young” by Mica Scotti Kole …
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Read More...Inner Sanctum — “Death Bound”
Inner Sanctum (1941-52) aired “Death Bound” on Monday, February 3, 1947 as the 304th of its approximately 527 episodes. Unfortunately, most of the shows are lost, with best guesstimates ranging from 140 to “less than 200” still in circulation. However, among these still existing shows, some are only partial episodes, with the majority being AFRS …
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Read More...Asimov’s, January/February 2022
Asimov’s, January/February 2022 “Snowflake” by Nick Wolven “Welcome Home” by Jendayi Brooks-Flemister “River of Stars, Bridge of Shadows” by A.A. Attanasio “The Roots of Our Memories” by Joel Armstrong “Unmasking Black Bart” by Joel Richards “October’s Feast” by Michèle Laframboise “The Beast of Tara” by Michael Swanwick “Fasterpiece” by Ian Creasey “Long-Term Emergencies” by Tom …
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Read More...Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2022
Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2022 “The Art of the Victory When the Game is All the World” by Eugie Foster “Ennead in Retrospect” by Christopher Mark Rose “Animale Dei Morti” by Nick DiChario “Bone Broth” by Karen Heuler “Prison Colony Optimization Protocols” by Auston Habershaw “Full Worm Moon” by Paul Lorello “Proximity Games” by …
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Read More...Suspense — “The Old Man”
[Please welcome once again guest-host Jonathan Sherwood for the second of his two Old Time Radio selections for the holidays (last week’s Christmas episode and this week’s New Year’s offering). I give Jonathan my thanks for the fine selections and am happy to report that we’ll be seeing more of his personal favorites from time …
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