Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Asimov’s — November/December 2018

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Asimov’s, November/December 2018 “Water and Diamond” by Derek Künsken “Stormdiver” by Nick Wolven “The Gift” by Julie Novakova “Incident at San Juan Bautista” by Ray Nayler “Joyride” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Pregnancy as a Location in Space-time” by David Ebenbach “Theories of Flight” by Linda Nagata “Parallel Military Cultural Evolution in a Non-human Society” by …

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Terra! Tara! Terror! edited by Juliana Rew

Posted byKevin P Hallett

Terra! Tara! Terror!   Edited   by   Juliana Rew   (Flatiron Publishing, Fall/Winter 2018, pb, 161 pp.)   “Mud” by Salinda Tyson “Learning to Fly” by Marie Vibbert (not speculative genre) “Father O’Neill’s Confession” by Jen Downes “Me Too, Medusa” by Evelyn Deshane (not speculative genre) “Replica” by John Paul Davies “Music, Dogs, True …

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Suspense — “Frankenstein”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Suspense (1942-1962) aired this fine adaptation of Mary Shelley’s (1797-1851, painting at right) classic 1818 novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus on November 3, 1952 as the 485th of its 945 episodes. As recounted in many of the 40+ episodes of Suspense presented here over the past nine years (and yet again for last week’s …

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Analog, November/December 2018

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Analog, November/December 2018

“Empress of Starlight” by G. David Nordley

“Pandora’s Pantry” by Stephen L. Burns
“The Gleaners” by Sarina Dorie
“Smear Job” by Rich Larson
“A Measure of Love” by C. Stuart Hardwick
“Learning the Ropes” by Tom Jolly
“Hubstitute Creatures” by Christopher L. Bennett
“The Light Fantastic” by J. T. Sharrah
“The Jagged Bones of Sea-Saw Town” by Marissa Lingen
“Sandy” by Bruce McAllister
“Dad’s War” by Filip Wiltgren
“Ashes of Exploding Suns, Monuments to Dust” by Christopher McKitterick
“The 7 Most Massive Historical Mistakes in The Gunmaster of the Carlords” by Eric James Stone
“The Ascension” by Jerry Oltion
“Left Turn” by Jay Parks
“Body Drift” by Cynthia Ward
“Mixipoxi Learns to Drive” by Joyce and Stanley Schmidt
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Suspense — “And So Died Riabouchinska” by Ray Bradbury

Posted byDave Truesdale

Suspense (1942-1962) aired Ray Bradbury’s “And So Died Riabouchinska” on November 13, 1947. Written for Suspense, Bradbury (1920-2012) would see it appear years later as a short story in The Saint Detective Magazine (1953-1967) for its second issue, cover dated June/July 1953. It would reappear in his 1964 collection The Machineries of Joy. (A tip …

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