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Worst Contact, edited by Hank Davis

Monday, 18 January 2016 6:39 pmJanuary 19, 2016 Robert L Turner III

Worst Contact

edited by

Hank Davis

(Baen, January 2016, 384 pp., pb)

“Puppet Show” by Fredric Brown

“Contact!” by David Drake

“The Flat-Eyed Monster” by William Tenn

“The Power” by Murray Leinster

“Early Model” by Robert Sheckley

“Her Sister’s Keeper” by Sarah A. Hoyt

“Plaything” by Larry Niven

“Random Sample” by T. P. Caravan

“No Love in all of Dwingeloo” by Tony Daniel

“First Contact, Sort Of” by Karen Haber & Carol Carr

“Fortitude” by David Brin

“They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson

“Alien Stones” by Gene Wolfe

“Pictures Don’t Lie” by Katherine MacLean

“Backwardness” by Poul Anderson

“Dodger Fan” by Will Stanton

“No Shoulder to Cry On” by Hank Davis

“Hornet’s Nest” by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

“Protected Species” by H. B. Fyfe

“The Cage” by A. Bertram Chandler

“Shadow World” by Clifford D. Simak

Bulldog Drummond — “First American Adventure”

Saturday, 16 January 2016 4:00 pmJanuary 16, 2016 Dave Truesdale

Bulldog Drummond (1941-49) aired “First American Adventure” on September 26, 1941. Actually, this was the audition record creator Himan Brown took to radio stations along with two other shows in hopes of selling them to radio stations. More about Bulldog Drummond in a moment, but what draws our attention to this audition record is that …

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Strange Horizons, January 11, 2016

Tuesday, 12 January 2016 10:36 amJanuary 12, 2016 Kat Day

Strange Horizons, January 11, 2016

“The Godbeard” by Lavie Tidhar

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #190, January 7, 2016

Sunday, 10 January 2016 4:07 pmJanuary 10, 2016 Christos Antonaros

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #190, January 7, 2016

“Longsleeves” by Mike Allen

“The Mama Mmiri” by Walter Dinjos

Lights Out! — “Come to the Bank”

Saturday, 9 January 2016 4:00 pmJanuary 9, 2016 Dave Truesdale

Lights Out! aired “Come to the Bank” on November 17, 1942. The show was created by Wyllis Cooper (1899-1955) in 1934, who then turned it over to Arch Oboler (1909-1987) in 1936. It ran until 1947 and was one of Old Time Radio’s most beloved horror shows, famous for its grisly sound effects. Oboler wrote, …

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