2000 Plus – “A Veteran Comes Home”

“Let us send our imaginations forward in time into the years beyond 2000 AD. What strange adventures, what exciting things will we find in the world of tomorrow? 2000 Plus!” 2000 Plus aired “A Veteran Comes Home” on July 5, 1950 as its 17th episode. First of the adult SF radio shows (predating Dimension X …

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Writers of the Future 32, ed. David Farland

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32

 

 

edited by David Farland

 

 

(Galaxy Press, May 2016, 496 pp.)

 

 
The Star Tree” by Jon Lasser
Images Across a Shattered Sea” by Stewart C Baker
Möbius” by Christoph Weber
The Jack of Souls” by Stephen Merlino
Swords Like Lightning, Hooves Like Thunder” by K. D. Julicher
Squalor and Sympathy” by Matt Dovey
Dinosaur Dreams in Infinite Measure” by Rachael K. Jones
Cry Havoc” by Julie Frost
A Glamour in the Black” by Sylvia Anna Hivén
The Broad Sky Was Mine, And the Road” by Ryan Row
Freebot” by R. M. Graves
Last Sunset for the World Weary” by H. L. Fullerton
The Sun Falls Apart” by J. W. Alden
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Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2016

Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2016

“The Cat Bell” by Esther M. Friesner

“The Farmboy” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Between Going and Staying” by Lilliam Rivera
“The Vindicator” by Matthew Hughes
“The Place of Bones” by Gardner Dozois
“Lord Elgin at the Acropolis” by Minsoo Kang
“Special Collections” by Kurt Fawver
“A Fine Balance” by Charlotte Ashley
“Passelande” by Robert Reed
“The Rhythm Man” by James Beamon
“Merry Christmas from All of Us to All of You” by Sandra McDonald
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Adventures by Morse, “The City of the Dead”

Adventures by Morse (1944-45) aired “The City of the Dead” as a 10-part weekly serial beginning on January 8, 1944. While reluctant to present multi-part stories here for obvious reasons (the exception being specific episodes of the 1930s Tarzan serials), I have chosen to experiment now with the first three installments of “The City of …

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Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors, ed. Bills & McCormick

Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors

edited by

E. R. Bills & Bret McCormick

(Eakin Press, Oct. 2016, 227 pp.)

 

Shrine” by David Bowles
Not from Detroit” by Joe R. Lansdale (reprint)
Ten Digit PIN” by Anna L. Davis
Sad Potatoes” by E. R. Bills
The False Face of Donovan O’Grady” by Stephen Patrick
Daniel’s Dilemma” by Carmen Gray
Crepuscular” by Bret McCormick
Pretty Deaths” by Russell C. Connor
The Interrogation of Horace Chatham, Esq.” by Michael H. Price
Redstick” by Tom Bont
Minor Details” by Ernie Lee
Taquache Nights” by David Robledo
Bamfires” by Alan Beauvais
Winging It” by Michael Baldwin
The Burned Boys” by Glen Coburn
Sky of Brass, Land of Iron” by Joe McKinney
Substitute Player” by Tom Alexander
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