Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Rocky Jordan — “Adventure in Zaqaziq”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Rocky Jordan aired “Adventure in Zaqaziq” on April 4, 1950 as its 76th episode. Last week we visited the Caribbean with a story about pirates in the early 1800s. This week we travel to the Middle East and Cairo, Egypt during the 1940s. Borrowed from a previous introduction, and for the benefit of new listeners …

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Analog, July/August 2017

Posted byRichard Cartwright &Victoria Silverwolf

Special Double Review

by

Richard Cartwright

&

Victoria Silverwolf

Analog, July/August 2017

“Not Far Enough” by Martin L Shoemaker

“For All Mankind” by C Stuart Hardwick
“Belly Up” by Maggie Clark
“Galleon” by Brian Trent
“Across The Steaming Sea” by Rob Chilson
“The Fool Stone” by Aubrey Kay Anderson
“The First Rule Is, You Don’t Eat Your Friends” by Robert R. Chase
“Alouette, Gentille Alouette” by Andrew Barton
“Fat Bubble” by Tom Easton
“Perspective” by Kyle Kirkland
“Clarity of Signal” by Holly Schofield
“Pitch” by Bruce McAllister and Patrick Smith
“Phuquiang: A History” by Uncle River
“Blinking Noon And Midnight” by Tim McDaniel
“Teamwork” by Eve Warren
“Often and Silently We Come” by Ron Collins
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“Call Me Dumbo” by Bob Shaw

Posted byDave Truesdale

“Call Me Dumbo” by Bob Shaw (1931-1996) (novelette, originally in IF, December 1966) by Dave Truesdale July of 2017 saw the publication of Go Forth and Multiply: Twelve Tales of Repopulation, edited by Gordon Van Gelder. This themed reprint collection features classic stories by the likes of John Brunner, Poul Anderson, Kate Wilhelm, Damon Knight, …

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Go Forth and Multiply, edited by Gordon Van Gelder

Posted byMichelle Ristuccia

Go Forth and Multiply:

Twelve Tales of Repopulation

 

Edited by

Gordon Van Gelder

 

(Ramble House/Surinam Turtle Press, July 2017, tpb, 312 pp.)

 

“No Land of Nod” by Sherwood Springer
“On the Care and Breeding of Pigs” by Rex Jatko
“Created He Them” by Alice Eleanor Jones
“The Windows of Heaven” by John Brunner
“The Queen Bee” by Randall Garrett
“Eve Times Four” by Poul Anderson
“The Girls and Nugent Miller” by Robert Sheckley
“Prime Essential” by E. C. Tubb
“Not with a Bang” by Damon Knight
“Another Rib” by John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley
“Mother to the World” by Richard Wilson
“Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang” by Kate Wilhelm
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