Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Defense Attorney — “Client Joshua Masters”

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Defense Attorney (aka The Defense Rests, 1951-52) aired “Client Joshua Masters” on April 10, 1952 as the 41st of its 75 episodes. The audition took place in April of 1951 under the working title of The Defense Rests, but when it was given the green light and its first episode aired in June it was …

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Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say, ed. Rhonda Parrish

Posted byAnne Crookshanks

Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say

 

 

edited by

Rhonda Parrish

 

 

(World Weaver Press, October 20, 2017, tpb, 215 pp.)

 

 
“Wight Christmas” by Laura VanArendonk Baugh
“The Asylum Musicale” by C.B. Calsing
“Desperately Seeking Santa” by DJ Tyrer
“Christmas Magic” by Jennifer Lee Rossman
“Good Morning” by Kristen Lee
“Moves Like Jagger” by Randi Perrin
“Miss ‘Lil Toe Head” by Michael Leonberger
“Unexpected Guests” by Andrew Wilson
“The True Story of Christina and Kristopher Kringle” by Ross Van Dusen
“Shouldering the Burden” by MLD Curelas
“You’d Better Watch Out” by Maren Matthias
“Captain Lizzy and the Stranger in the Fog” by Anne Luebke
“Agatha Sings to the Scorpions” by Jeff Kuykendall
“Red to Hide the Blood” by Hayley Stone
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The Ramshead Algorithm and Other Stories by KJ Kabza

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The Ramshead Algorithm and Other Stories

 

 

by

KJ Kabza

 

 

(Pink Narcissus Press, January 2018, 348 pp., pb)

 

 
“The Leafsmith in Love”
“The Color of Sand”
“The Ramshead Algorithm”
“Night and Day”
“The Flight Stone”
“Steady on Her Feet”
“The Soul in the Bell Jar”
“Heaventide”
“We Don’t Talk About Death”
“All Souls Proceed”
“You Can Take it With You”
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Analog, November/December 2017

Posted byChuck Rothman

Analog, November/December 2017

“Hybrid, Blue, by Firelight” by Bill Johnson

“Keepsakes” by Kenneth Schneyer
“Laminated Moose Zombies and Other Road Maintenance Problems” by Dennis M. Flynn & Michael F. Flynn
“Downsized” by Bud Sparhawk
“New Teeth” by James Sallis
“Luscinia” by Robert Reed
“Fermi’s Slime” by Tom Jolly
“Quirks” by Marie Vibbert
“Time Travel Is Only for the Poor” by S.L. Huang
“Papoose Lake” by Richard A. Lovett
“The Pilgrimage” by Edward M. Lerner
“Hot Air” by Igor Teper
“Kindle No Flame” by Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer
“Two Hours at Frontier” by Sean McMullen
“Reentry” by Brendan DuBois
“Weaponized” by Jay O’Connell
“Housekeeping, 100 XP” by Brenta Blevins
“And Then They Were Gone” by Ian Creasey
“How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement” by Scott Edelman
“Native Seeds” by Catherine Wells
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Quiet Please — “Adam and the Darkest Day”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Quiet, Please aired “Adam and the Darkest Day” on November 7, 1948 as its 73rd episode. The show ran for two years (1947-1949) and was, according to some accounts, the best overall horror/science fiction radio series. It was written by Wyllis Cooper (1899-1955, photo at right), the man who created another of old time radio’s …

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