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Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, May 2019

Saturday, 1 June 2019 7:22 pmJune 2, 2019 Tara Grimravn

Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, May 2019

X Minus One — “The Seventh Victim” by Robert Sheckley

Saturday, 1 June 2019 3:00 pmJune 1, 2019 Dave Truesdale

X Minus One (1955-58) aired “The Seventh Victim” on March 6, 1957 as its 91st episode. It first appeared in the April 1953 issue of Galaxy (cover at left) as a short story by Robert Sheckley (1928-2005, photo at right from the 2001 Los Angeles Nebula Awards weekend). Consensus among radio historians has set the …

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies #278, May 23, 2019

Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:54 amJune 1, 2019 Mike Wyant, Jr.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #278, May 23, 2019

“The Two-Bullet War” by Karen Osborne

“Abacus of Ether” by Stephen Case

Arctic Adagio by DJ Cockburn

Saturday, 1 June 2019 4:13 amJune 1, 2019 Victoria Silverwolf

Arctic Adagio by DJ Cockburn (Annorlunda Books, May 2019, pb, 35 pp.) Reviewed by Victoria Silverwolf “Arctic Adagio” by DJ Cockburn is a murder mystery set in the near future. Extreme income inequality results in an elite set of the wealthy, a middle class who work for them, and a large number …

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Cirsova: Summer Special 2019 (Cirsova Summer Special Book 1), June 2019

Friday, 31 May 2019 7:18 amMay 31, 2019 Victoria Silverwolf

Cirsova: Summer Special 2019 (Cirsova Summer Special Book 1), June 2019

“The Ghost of Torreón” by Edd Vick and Manny Frishberg

“The Bullet From Tomorrow” by Misha Burnett

“The Star-God’s Grave” by Schuyler Hernstrom

“Bleed You Dry” by Su-Ra-U

“The Last Fortune of Ali al’Ahmar” by Rev. Joe Kelly

“Halcyon” by Caroline Furlong

Tor.com — May 2019

Thursday, 30 May 2019 7:26 pmMay 31, 2019 Kevin P. Hallett

Tor.com, May 2019

“Murder in the Spook House” by Michael Swanwick

“Long is the Way” by Carrie Vaughn and Sage Walker

Constellary Tales #3, May 2019

Thursday, 30 May 2019 6:41 pmMay 31, 2019 Geoff Houghton

Constellary Tales #3, May 2019

“Parsley, Pennyroyal, Paracetamol” by J. L. George

“Under the Hat” by Forrest Brazeal

“Roads that Ain’t” by Buzz Dixon

“Diminuendo in Three Letters” by D. J. Cockburn

Suspense — “Cabin B-13”

Saturday, 25 May 2019 3:00 pmMay 25, 2019 Dave Truesdale

Suspense (1942-1962) aired “Cabin B-13” on November 9, 1943 as the 65th of its 945 episodes. As he did for many Suspense episodes, John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) penned this clever, rather creepy script. As noted in the introduction to many of the 40+ episodes of Suspense presented here over the past ten years (our last …

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