Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Writers of the Future 33, ed. David Farland

Posted byKevin P Hallett

Writers of the Future #33

 

 

edited by David Farland

 

 

(Galaxy Press, April 2017, pb, 400 pp.)

 

“Moonlight One” by Stephen Lawson

“The Armor Embrace” by Doug C. Souza
“Envoy in the Ice” by Dustin Steinacker
“Tears for Shulna” by Andrew L. Roberts
“The Drake Equation” by C. L. Kagmi
“Acquisition” by Jake Marley
“Obsidian Spire” by Molly Elizabeth Atkins
“A Glowing Heart” by Anton Rose
“The Long Dizzy Down” by Ziporah Hildebrandt
“The Woodcutters’ Deity” by Walter Dinjos
“The Dragon Killer’s Daughter” by Todd McCaffrey
“Useless Magic” by Andrew Peery
“Adramelech” by Sean Hazlett
“The Fox, the Wolf, and the Dove” by Ville Merilainen
“The Magnificent Bhajan” by David VonAllmen
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X Minus One — “Real Gone” by Ernest Kinoy

Posted byDave Truesdale

X Minus One (1955-58) aired Ernest Kinoy’s original story “Real Gone” on February 27, 1957 as its 90th episode out of 130. Kinoy (1925-2014), along with George Lefferts, adapted all of the show’s stories previously published in the pages of (mostly) Galaxy, and Astounding. From time to time, as is the case here, they would …

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Principia Ponderosa, edited by Juliana Rew

Posted byLaura Gobourn & Jennifer Burroughs

Principia Ponderosa

 

Edited by Juliana Rew

 

(Third Flatiron Publishing, Spring 2017, pb, 188 pp.)

 

“Blazing Beamard” by Stanley Webb
“Lampblack and Dust” by J. L. Forrest
“The Quiet Crime” by Jordan Ashley Moore
“The Monster Hunter” by Angus McIntyre
“The Groks of Kruk County” by Columbkill Noonan
“Mourning Dove” by Jackson Kuhl
“Willing” by Premee Mohamed
“The Great Man’s Iron Horse” by Mark Mellon
“The Hunt” by Salinda Tyson
“La Loca” by Robert Walton
“The Gleaming” by John J. Kennedy
“Closing the Frontier” by Philip DiBoise
“No County for Young Men” by Martin Clark
“The Wind Father” by Geoff Gander
“Etiquette for the Space Traveller: Dealing with the Ship’s Cat” by Lisa Timpf
“Gardening in a Post-Apocalyptic World” by Sheryl Normandeau
“The JPEG of Dorian Gray” by Brian Trent

[Editor’s note: I have asked for this review to be split between two reviewers. Laura Gobourn reviews the first half of the anthology while Jennifer Burroughs takes a look at the remaining stories.]

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Miss Pinkerton, Inc. — “The Bentley Emerald”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Miss Pinkerton, Inc. recorded “The Bentley Emerald” on July 21, 1941 as its audition/debut show. Accounts vary, including whether or not the show aired any further episodes or if any were even made. In any case, this is the only existing episode, which is kind of a shame because the chemistry and witty banter between …

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Analog, May/June 2017

Posted byVictoria Silverwolf

Analog, May/June 2017

“The Girls with Kaleidoscope Eyes” by Howard Hendrix

“To See the Elephant” by Julie Novakova
“The Chatter of Monkeys” by Bond Elam
“A Grand Gesture” by Dave Creek
“Decrypted” by Eric Choi
“Seven Ways to Fall in Love with an Astronaut” by Dominica Phetteplace
“Focus” by Gord Sellar
“Ténéré” by Manny Frishberg and Edd Vick
“The Final Nail” by Stanley Schmidt
“The Speed of Faith in Vacuum” by Igor Teper
“Facebook Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate It” by Sam Schreiber
“Vulture’s Nest” by Marissa Lingen
“In the Mists” by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
“The Return” by Bud Sparhawk
“Lips Together” by Ken Brady
“The Banffs” by Lavie Tidhar
“Where the Flock Wanders” by Andrew Barton
“Proteus” by Joe Pitkin
“Kepler’s Law” by Jay Werkheiser
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