X Minus One (1955-58) aired Evelyn E. Smith’s short story “Man’s Best Friend” on April 24, 1957 as its 98th episode. It originally appeared in the April 1955 issue of Galaxy. Not terribly prolific novel-wise, Smith wrote three genre novels (one each in the decades of the 60s, 70s, and 80s) and some fifty-plus genre …
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Asimov’s, August 2015
edited by Juliana Rew
(Third Flatiron Publishing, pb, Summer 2015)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #176, June 25, 2015
“The Girl with the Golden Hair” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
(The Glittering Edge, Book One)
by Brenda Cooper
(Pyr, March 2015, Tpb, 396 pp.)
Reviewed by Dave Truesdale
In the realm of science fiction literature, authors have grappled with the issue of advanced machine intelligence for a very long time—especially when it comes to sophisticated computers who take the form of robots who look like, act like, and far too often for their own good, think like humans and with a consciousness and will of their own. We now call such entities Artifical Intelligences (or simply AIs).
Read More...Sherlock Holmes aired “The Adventure of the Carpathian Horror” on April 14, 1947. In one iteration or another Sherlock Holmes on radio lasted some 25 years, off and on from 1930 through 1955. It first hit the airwaves due solely to the tireless efforts of one Edith Meiser, whose story we have written of before …
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Aurealis #82, July 2015
Diabolical Plots #5, 
Only Disconnect
Terraform, June 29, 2015
Edge of Dark