Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2016

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Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2016

“The Ghost Penny Post” by Marc Laidlaw

“Red In Tooth and Cog” by Cat Rambo
“Belief” by Nancy Kress
“The Liar” by John P. Murphy
“Nanabojou and the Race Question” by Justin Barbeau
“The Language of the Silent” by Juliette Wade and Sheila Finch
“Diamond” by Chris DeVito
“The Prince and the Pulpster” by Paul di Filippo
“The Silver Strands of Alpha Crucis-D” by N. J. Schrock
“A Mother’s Arms” by Sarina Dorie
“Golden Gate Blues” by James L. Cambias
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Tarzan — “The Female of the Species”

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Tarzan (1951-53) aired “The Female of the Species” on February 22, 1951. No sooner had I finished reading a fantasy novel set in Africa, than I ran across this episode of Tarzan. Not only was this a coincidence, but the fact that tomorrow is Valentine’s Day is even more apropos, as this episode centers on …

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Insistence of Vision by David Brin

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Insistence of Vision

by

David Brin

 

 

(The Story Plant, March 2016, 374 pp.)

 

 
Introduction by Vernor Vinge
“The Heresy of Science Fiction” by David Brin
 
WHAT WE MAY BECOME
“Insistence of Vision” (Twelve Tomorrows, Technology Review’s Science Fiction Edition, July 2013)
“Transition Generation” (Project Hieroglyph, 2014)
“Chrysalis” (Analog, August 2014)
“Stones of Significance” (first appeared in a special edition, Lamps on the Brow, then in the special January 2000 issue of Analog magazine)
“News From 2035: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5” (Tomorrow Happens, NESFA Press, 2003)
 
HOW WE’LL ENDURE (Tales of the Coss Domination)
“The Logs” (Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, ed. Bill Fawcett and J.E. Mooney, Tor, 2013)
“The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss” (Old Venus, ed. by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin, 2015)
“Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon’s Crystal Forests” (Space Cadets, the special printing for the Los Angeles World Science Fiction Convention, ed. Mike Resnick, SCIFI press, 2006)
 
WHEN WE OVERCOME
“Mars Opposition” (Analog, January 2005)
“A Professor at Harvard” (Analog, July 2003)
“I Could’ve Done Better” by Gregory Benford and David Brin (Jim Baen’s Universe, ed. Eric Flint, 2006)
“Paris Conquers All” by David Brin and Gregory Benford (War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, ed. Kevin J. Anderson [Bantam, Doubleday, Dell], 1989)
“A Retrospective by Jules Verne” by David Brin and Gregory Benford
 
WHO WE’LL MEET
“Fortitude” (Science Fiction Age, January 1996)
“An Ever-Reddening Glow” (Analog, February 1996)
“The Diplomacy Guild” (Isaac’s Universe Volume 1: The Diplomacy Guild, ed. Martin H. Greenberg [Grafton], 1990)
“The Other Side of the Hill” (Science Fiction Age, November 1994)
 
WHERE WE WILL GO
“Temptation”
“Avalon Probes” (Analog, 2013)
“Six-Word Tales” (appeared as “Very Short Stories” in Wired magazine, Issue 14.11, November 2006)
“Reality Check” (Nature, March 16, 2000)
 
WHY WE’LL PERSEVERE
“Waging War with Reality” (Styles of Creation, edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, 1992)
 
Afterword & Book Notes
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