The Mysterious Traveler (1943-1952) aired “The Big Brain” on March 14, 1950 as the 246th of its estimated 384 broadcasts, of which 303 were original scripts. Only 75-80 are known to be in circulation at the present time. Since our first double-episode airing of the show in 2009 we have showcased 14 episodes, this being …
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Read More...Things with Feathers: Stories of Hope Edited by Juliana Rew (Third Flatiron Publishing, October 2021, pb., 248 pp.) “Dream Eater” by Nemma Wollenfang “The Soul of Trees” by Emily Dauvin “Adventures in the Spiritual Lost-and-Found” by Paula Hammond “Elf Magic” by Barton Paul Levenson “The Sorcerer’s Appendix” by Sharon Diane King “Yin-Yang” by Cayce Osborne …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #342, November 4, 2021 “No Say” by Jonathan Louis Duckworth “The Black Rainbow” by Denzel Xavier Scott
Read More...[On May 10, 2021 Strange Horizons officially expressed its political support for Palestinian solidarity. The views of Tangent Online reviewers are not necessarily those of Strange Horizons. Fiction critiqued at Tangent Online is, as much as is humanly possible, without prejudice and based solely on artistic merit.] Strange Horizons, November 15, 2021 “Dragons” by Teresa …
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Read More...Shapers of Worlds, Volume II Edited by Edward Willett (Shadowpaw Press, October 2021, pb., 544 pp.) “Shadow Sight” by Kelley Armstrong “Ghost and Fox” by Marie Brennan “Letters from an Imprisoned Wizard to a Young Queen, and Associated Explicatory Correspondence” by Garth Nix “Going to Ground” by Candas Jane Dorsey “Beneath a Bicameral Moon” …
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Read More...[Editor’s Note: Please welcome this week’s OTR guest host, Jonathan Sherwood, who selected and did the write up for the episode, minus the usual bit about the pulp magazines following the audio presentation. Jonathan writes of himself that his “love of old radio dramas began when he fell asleep each night listening to The CBS …
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Read More...Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #50, November 2021 “The Reprieve” by Darrell Schweitzer “The Lost Prince” by Milton Davis “The Carnival Job” by Mark Finn “Father-of-Rivers” by Gregory Mele “The Orb of Semerkhet” by Jeremy Farkas
Read More...DreamForge Anvil #5, October/November 2021 “Harbinie of Death” by J.J. Litke (Reprint, not reviewed) “Kill Your Darlings” by A.J. Mietke “Mermaids in the Garden” by Elaine Cunningham “Unlinked” by Kelley Stead “Our Kind” by Crystal Crawford
Read More...[On May 10, 2021 Strange Horizons officially expressed its political support for Palestinian solidarity. The views of Tangent Online reviewers are not necessarily those of Strange Horizons. Fiction critiqued at Tangent Online is, as much as is humanly possible, without prejudice and based solely on artistic merit.] Strange Horizons, November 8, 2021 “Campfire Stories” by …
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Read More...Analog, November/December 2021 “The Malady” by Shane Tourtellotte “A Sports Story” by Brenda Kalt “From the Maintenance Reports of Perseverance Colony, Year 12” by Jo Miles “An Hour to Ames” by Dan Reade “Never to Happen Again” by Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg “Ars Brevis Est” by Anatoly Belilovsky “No Stranger to Native Shores” …
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