Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Hall of Fantasy — “The Dance of the Devil Dolls”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Hall of Fantasy aired “The Dance of the Devil Dolls” on February 9, 1953. The show debuted locally in Utah in 1947 as a mystery series but after fits and starts and a move to Chicago was broadcast nationally but with an emphasis on supernatural horror (with some SF thrown in). Written by creator Richard …

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Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2016

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Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2016

“Vortex” by Gregory Benford

“Number Nine Moon” by Alex Irvine
“Rockets Red” by Mary Robinette Kowal (reprint, not reviewed)
“Smooth Stones and Empty Bones” by Bennett North
“The White Piano” by David Gerrold
“Caspar D. LuckinBill, What Are You Going to Do?” by Nick Wolven
“Robot from the Future” by Terry Bisson
“Squidtown” by Leo Vladimirsky
“Touch me All Over” by Betsy James
“Telltale” by Matthew Hughes
“The Visionaries” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Braid of Days and Wake of Nights” by E. Lily Yu
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Onward, Drake! edited by Mark L. Van Name

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Onward, Drake!

edited by

Mark L. Van Name

(Baen, October 2015, 272 pp., hc)

 
 
“The Great Wizard, Cabbage” by David Drake
“Incubator” by Gene Wolfe
“A Flat Affect” by Eric Flint
“SUM” by Cecelia Holland
“The Crate Warrior, the Doppelgänger, and the Idea Woman” by Mur Lafferty
“Hell Hounds” by Tony Daniel
“Technical Advantage” by John Lambshead
“Saracens” by T. C. McCarthy
“The One That Got Away” by Eric S. Brown
“Swimming from Joe” by Barry N. Malzberg
“The Village of Yesteryear” by Sarah Van Name
“The Trouble with Telepaths” by Hank Davis
“A Cog In Time” by Sarah A. Hoyt
“All That’s Left” by Mark L. Van Name
“The Losing Side” by Larry Correia
“Save What You Can” by David Drake
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Escape — “Poison” by Roald Dahl

Posted byDave Truesdale

Escape (1947-54) aired “Poison” on July 28, 1950 as the 121st of its 201 unique (i.e. indvidual, not repeated) stories, each of its 29-episode seasons for 7 years giving the 201 final count. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) saw his short story published in the June 3, 1950 issue of Collier’s, so Escape wasted no time in …

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