Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

X Minus One — “Mr. Costello, Hero” by Theodore Sturgeon

Posted byDave Truesdale

X Minus One (1955-1958) aired “Mr. Costello, Hero” on July 3, 1956 as its 58th episode. Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) saw his novelette first published in the December 1953 issue of Galaxy. The lone passenger on a starship plying its trade between worlds is the strange Mr. Costello. He upsets members of the crew with his …

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Bridging Infinity, ed. by Jonathan Strahan

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Bridging Infinity

 

edited by

Jonathan Strahan

 

(Solaris, November 2016, 356 pages)

 

 
“Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee” by Alastair Reynolds
“Six Degrees of Separation Freedom” by Pat Cadigan
“The Venus Generations” by Stephen Baxter
“Rager in Space” by Charlie Jane Anders
“The Mighty Slinger” by Tobias S. Buckell & Karen Lord
“Ozymandias” by Karin Lowachee
“The City’s Edge” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Mice Among Elephants” by Gregory Benford & Larry Niven
“Parables of Infinity” by Robert Reed
“Monuments” by Pamela Sargent
“Apache Charley and the Pentagons of Hex” by Allen M. Steele
“Cold Comfort” by Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty
“Travelling into Nothing” by An Owomoyela
“Induction” by Thoraiya Dyer
“Seven Birthdays” by Ken Liu
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Mothership Zeta #5, October 2016

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Mothership Zeta #5, October 2016

“Noteworthy Customer Service Interactions, Example 12: Mendoza and Squeakybuns” by Laura Pearlman

“Rescue” by Sarah Gailey
“The Indigo Ace and the High-Low Split” by Annalee Flower Horne
“Dear Future Customer” by Darin Ramsey
“At the Village Vanguard (Ruminations on Blacktopia)” by Maurice Broaddus
“Making a Good Impression” by James Hart
“The Penelope Qingdom” by Aidan Moher
“The Last Half Hour of Winter” by Meghan Ball
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — “Murder in the Casbah”

Posted byDave Truesdale

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939-47) aired “Murder in the Casbah” on December 3, 1945. During this incarnation of Sherlock Holmes on radio (the first coming in the early 1930s and the last running to 1959), Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprised their Universal studio film roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for …

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Hyperpowers, edited by Bascomb James

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Hyperpowers

 

 

 

Edited by

 

Bascomb James

 

 

 

(Third Flatiron Publishing, Summer 2016)

 

 

 

“Grid Drop” by William Huggins
“Between Two Heartbeats” by Jonathan Shipley
“Dirt Moon” by Dan Koboldt
“The Silicates” by John M. Campbell
“Dreaming Empire” by Mark Rookyard
“Symphony in First Contact, Hostile” by Sam Bellotto, Jr.
“Duck and Cover” by Erik B. Scott
“Outer Patrol” by E. J. Shumak
“Child of Soss” by Brandon L. Summers
“The Mytilenian Delay” by Neil James Hudson
“Kill the Coffee Boilers!” by Robert Walton
“Alien Dreams” by K. S. Dearsley
“Yesterday’s Weapon” by Noel Ayers
“Claim Jumpers” by Elliotte Rusty Harold
“Pre-emptive Survivors” by Martin Clark
“I’ve Got the Horse Right Here” (flash humor) by Art Lasky
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