Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Exploring Tomorrow — “Meddler’s Moon” by George O. Smith

Posted byDave Truesdale

Exploring Tomorrow (1957-58) aired George O. Smith’s “Meddler’s Moon” in early April 1958 as its 25th episode out of an estimated 104. I give the “early” April date from reading the transcript of the show as published for the first time in the George O. Smith collection The Worlds of George O. (more about this …

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Star Destroyers, ed. Tony Daniel & Christopher Ruocchio

Posted byRick Cartwright

Star Destroyers

 

Edited by

Tony Daniel & Christopher Ruocchio

 

(Baen, March 6, 2018, 336 pp., Paperback and Kindle)

 

 
“Superweapon” by David Drake
“A Sudden Stop” by Steve White
“Another Solution” by Mark L. Van Name
“The Magnolia Incident” by Mike Kupari
“A Helping Hand” by Jody Lynn Nye
“Boomers” by J. R. Dunn
“Hate In the Darkness” by Michael Z. Williamson
“The Stars Are Silent” by Gray Rinehart
“Excerpts From Two Lives” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
“Icebreaker” by Dave Bara
“Try Not To Kill Us All” by Joelle Presby
“Skipjack” by Susan R. Matthews
“Homecoming” by Robert Buettner
“Not Made For Us” by Christopher Ruocchio
“A Tale Of The Great Trek War Aboard The Starship Persistence” by Brendan DuBois
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Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2018

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Fantasy and Science Fiction, May/June 2018

“Tender Loving Plastics” by Amman Sabet

“The Barrens” by Stephanie Feldman
“Inquisitive” by Pip Coen
“Argent and Sable” by Matthew Hughes
“The Bicycle Whisperer” by Lisa Mason
“Unstoppable” by Gardner Dozois
“Crash-Site” by Brian Trent
“What You Pass For” by Melanie West
“Ku’gbo” by Dare Segum Falowo
“Behold the Child” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“The Properties of Shadow” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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Dangerous Assignment — “Ecuador-UFOs”

Posted byDave Truesdale

“Yeah, danger is my assignment–I get sent to a lot of places I can’t even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though–trouble!” Dangerous Assignment (1949-1953) aired “Ecuador – UFOs” on April 17, 1950 as the 16th of its estimated 167 episodes. We ran our first Dangerous Assignment episode just over a month ago, but …

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