Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

XIII: Stories of Transformation, ed. by Mark Teppo

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XIII: Stories of Transformation

edited byMark Teppo

(Underland Press, March 2015)

 

“Skin and Paper” by Adrienne J. Odasso
“With a Musket and a Ducat The Dutch Trading Company in Nineteen Sketches, Paintings, and Luminos” by Tais Teng
“Selma Eats” by Fiona Moore
“Oh, How the Ghost of You Clings” by Richard Bowes
“You Can Go Anywhere” by Jennifer Geisbrecht
“Twilight for the Nightingale” by David Tallerman
“The Thirteenth Ewe” by Lyn McConchie
“Augustus Clementine” by Liz Argall
“Pretty Little Boxes” by Julie C. Day
“Two Will Walk With You” by Grá Linnaea
“Eidolon” by Christie Yant
“Slow Shift” by Rik Hoskin
“The Math (A Fairy Tale)” by Marc Levinthal
“Chrysalis” by Richard Thomas
“Occupy Maple Street” by Gregory L. Norris
“Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints” by Alex Dally MacFarlane
“Creezum Zuum” by Juli Mallett
“A Moment of Gravity, Circumscribed” by Fran Wilde
“We All Look Like Harrie” by Andrew Penn Romine
“Letters to a Body on the Cusp of Drowning” by A.C. Wise
“Blackbird Lullaby” by George Cotronis
“Digital” by Daryl Gregory
“Why Ulu Left the Bladescliff” by Amanda C. Davis
“Follow Me Through Anarchy” by Jetse de Vries
“The Ghost Eater” by Cat Rambo
“The Soldier Who Swung on the End of a Thread” by M. David Blake
“Rabbit, Cat, Girl” by Rebecca Kuder
“The Thirteenth Goddess” by Claude Lalumière
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

Posted byDave Truesdale

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

by Meg Elison

(Sybaritic Press, June 2014)

2015 Philip K. Dick Award winner

 

Reviewed by Dave Truesdale

Somewhere around the middle of March I posted at a website forum asking for hard SF novels from the past couple of years written by women. For several days there was nothing but the sound of crickets. I then received eight suggestions in an email, and though they were not exclusively hard SF, they were still definitely SF, and of several varieties. Eight SF novels written by women and coming from seven different publishers. So I purchased three and was fortunate to receive review copies of the others.

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Lights Out — “Murder Castle”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Lights Out (1934-47) aired Arch Oboler’s “Murder Castle” on February 16, 1938. An older man lives alone in a large mansion sporting several floors, long corridors, and empty rooms–including a basement he is “remodeling.” He places an ad in the newspaper for a housekeeper. But they keep disappearing. As one of the commentators remarked at …

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Fantasy & Science Fiction — May/June 2015

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Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2015

“Entrepreneurs” by Robert Grossbach
“Teardrop” by Lisa Mason
“Entanglements” by David Gerrold
“Trapping the Pleistocene” by James Sarafin
“The Laminated Man” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“Today’s Smarthouse in Love” by Sarah Pinsker
“Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“In the Time of Love” by Amy Sterling Casil
“A Turkey with Egg on his Face” by Rob Chilson
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