Gunsmoke (April 26, 1952–June 18, 1961) aired “Cain” on October 3, 1952 as the 24th of its 480 original episodes. This is the fourth episode of Gunsmoke we’ve showcased here, the first coming in early January of 2020, the second in June of 2020, and the third in late January of this year, 2021. Thus, …
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Read More...Tor.com, September 2021 “The Wonderful Stag, or the Courtship of Red Elsie” by Kathleen Jennings “The Station of the Twelfth” by Chaz Brenchley “Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre” by Lavie Tidhar “Questions Asked in the Belly of the World” by A. T. Greenblatt
Read More...Fantasy Magazine #71, September 2021 “Sounds for Crustaceans” by Addison Smith “What is Mercy?” by Amal Singh “Lost Portals” by Mark S. Bailen “An Arrangement of Moss and Dirt” by K.P. Kulski
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Read More...“The Black Museum. A Repository of Death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects . . . all are touched by murder.” The Black Museum (1952) aired “The Centerfire .32 Caliber Bullet” (in the United States and as near as historians …
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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, September 20, 2021 “Motivation Augmentation” by …
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Read More...Apex #125, September/October 2021 “Cottonmouth” by Joelle Wellington “Next to Cleanliness” by Rose Keating “Discontinuity” by Jared Millet “Candyland” by Maggie Slater “Gift for the Cutter Man” by D. Thomas Minton “Wake Up, I Miss You” by Rachel Swirsky
Read More...Clarkesworld #180, September 2021 “Yesterday’s Wolf” by Ray Nayler “Xiaolongbao: Soup Dumplings” by D. A. Xiaolin Spires “The Winter Garden” by Regina Kanyu Wang (translated by Emily Jin) “Excerpts from the Text of an Explanatory Stele Erected for Our Edification by the Scholars of the Outer Orion Tendril” by Timons Esaias “It is a Pleasure …
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