Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2015

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Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2015

“The Winter Wraith” by Jeffrey Ford

“Hob’s Choice” by Tim Sullivan
“The Thirteen Mercies” by Maria Dahvana Headley
“Gypsy” by Carter Scholz
“Her Echo” by KJ Kabza
“The Fabulous Follicle” by Harvey Jacobs
“DreamPet” by Bruce McAllister
“Cleanout” by Naomi Kritzer
“It’s All Relative at the Space-Time Café” by Norman Birnbach
“The City of Your Soul” by Robert Reed
“Tomorrow is a Lovely Day” by Lisa Mason
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Suspense – “The Diary of Sophronia Winters”

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Suspense (1942-1962) aired “The Diary of Sophronia Winters” on April 27, 1943 as its 39th episode out of nearly one thousand. Written by the incomparable Lucille Fletcher (1912-2000), it stars Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) and Ray Collins (1889-1965, who many will recall as Lieutenant Tragg on the original Perry Mason television series, which ran from 1957-1966). …

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Asimov’s — October/November 2015

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Asimov’s, October/November 2015

 

“The Citadel of Weeping Pearls” by Aliette de Bodard
“English Wildlife” by Alan Smale
“The Hard Woman” by Ian McDowell
“Walking to Boston” by Rick Wilber
“Begone” by Daryl Gregory
“The Adjunct Professor’s Guide to Life After Death” by Sandra McDonald
“With Folded RAM” by Brooks Peck
“Hollywood After 10” by Timons Esaias
“My Time on Earth” by Ian Creasey
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Unidentified Funny Objects 4, ed. Alex Shvartsman

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Unidentified Funny Objects 4

 

edited by

Alex Shvartsman

 

(UFO Publishing, October 2015)

 

“The Time-Traveling Ghost Machine of Professor Jaime Pelligrosa” by Andrew Kaye
“Please Approve the Dissertation Research of Angtor” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“Match Game” by Esther Friesner
“The Transformation of Prince Humphrey” by Brent C. Smith
“In the End, You Get Clarity” by Laura Pearlman
“Project Disaster” by Tim Pratt
“Hello Hotel” by Piers Anthony
“Bob’s No-Kill Monster Shelter” by Ian Creasey
“Board Meeting Minutes” by Oliver Buckram
“Armed for You” by Anaea Lay
“The Unfortunate Problem of Grandmother’s Head” by Karen Haber
“My Mother Loves Her Robot More Than Me and I Feel Bad” by Eric Kaplan
“The Worm that Turned” by Jody Lynn Nye
“Department of Death Predictions, Final Notice” by Tina Gower
“Champions of Breakfast” by Zach Shepard
“Keeping Ahead” by Mike Resnick
“So You’ve Metamorphosed Into a Giant Insect. Now What?” by James Aquilone
“Confessions of an Interplanetary Fraud” by Michael J. Martinez
“Texts from my Mother About the Alien Invasion” by Tina Connolly
“Support Your Local Alien” by Gini Koch
“Conversation Topics to Avoid on a First Date With Yourself” by Jonathan Ems
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Escape – “The Earthmen” by Ray Bradbury

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Escape (1947-54) aired Ray Bradbury’s “The Earthmen” on July 25, 1951. The story first saw print in the August 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories (though it failed to make the cover). It is one of the stories comprising Bradbury’s 1950 “novel” The Martian Chronicles, the table of contents giving the title as “August 1999: …

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