Swords and Larceny Edited by Mark Finn & David Afsharirad (Baen, September 2, 2025, 377 pp, pb and Kindle) “The Beer Run” by Mark Finn “The Mistress of Spiders and the Hooded Crow” by Bill Willingham “Gilt and Glamour” by Tracy S. Morris “The Unworthy” by Stephen Aryan “Legacy of Dragons” by Wen Spencer “The …
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Read More...Lightspeed #183, August 2025 “Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-Battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis” by David Anaxagoras “It Might Be He Returns” by Fatima Taqvi “Feast of Famine” by Adam-Troy Castro “Dad Went Out to Get the Milk” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu “The Dream Tourists” by Sarah Langan “Savannah and the Apprentice” by Christopher …
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Read More...Boston Blackie (1944, 1945-1950) aired “Blackie Breaks into Prison” on May 21, 1947 as the 123rd broadcast of the estimated 220 from its 1945-1950 run. This is but the seventh Boston Blackie episode we have featured, the first in 2018 with this being only the third since July of 2022, so for newcomers I recap …
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Read More...Analog, September/October 2025 “Suspended Animation” by Jay Werkheiser and Julian Michael Carver “Not in My Valley” by M. L. Clark “Rust” by David D. Levine “Ontario Lacus” by Pauline Barmby “You Are Hereby Notified that You Are the Future of Art” by Anya Markov “Scarecrow” by Timothy Quinn “Boys and Girls Together” by Larry Niven …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #439, August 21, 2025 “Bloody Muddy Water” by Jonathan Louis Duckworth “Postman, Soldier, Traitor” by Vijayalaxmi Samal
Read More...Mysterion, August 2025 “Timestorm” by L.H. Phillips
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, August 25, 2025 “The Capture” by …
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Read More...Diabolical Plots #126, August 2025 “Will He Speak With Gentle Words?” by A.J. Rocca “Skin as Warp, Blood as Weft” by Lilia Zhang
Read More...Nightmare #155, August 2025 “Swallow Test” by Angela Liu “Bunny Ears” by Kristina Ten “Eight Ball” by Martin Cahill
Read More...The New Adventures of Michael Shayne (1944-53) aired “The Case of the Phantom Neighbor” on Saturday, January 8, 1949. Since this is only the 5th episode of this show we’ve run (the first in July of 2022 and the last in September of 2024, just shy of a year ago), it is time to reprise …
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