Tarzan — Three Episodes (with cannibals)

This week we present three episodes of the original Tarzan radio show from 1932. Tarzan was the very first major, serialized radio show anywhere, and these early episodes ran approximately 11-12 minutes and aired every two or three days. The current serial has detailed Tarzan’s origins, his youth, and now his early manhood. Jane, her …

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Operation Arcana, ed. John Joseph Adams

Operation Arcana

edited by John Joseph Adams

(Baen Books, tpb, March 2015, $15.00)

“Rules of Enchantment” by David Klecha and Tobias Buckell

“The Damned One Hundred” by Jonathan Maberry
“Blood, Ash, Braids” by Genevieve Valentine
“Mercenary’s Honor” by Elizabeth Moon
“The Guns of the Wastes” by Django Wexler
“The Graphology of Hemorrhage” by Yoon Ha Lee
“American Golem” by Weston Ochse
“Weapons in the Earth” by Myke Cole
“Heavy Sulfur” by Ari Marmell
“Steel Ships” by Tanya Huff
“Sealskin” by Carrie Vaughn
“Pathfinder” by T. C. McCarthy
“Bone Eaters” by Glen Cook
“Bomber’s Moon” by Simon R. Green
“In Skelton Leaves” by Seanan McGuire
“The Way Home” by Linda Nagata
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Clarkesworld #102, March 2015

Clarkesworld #102, March 2015

“Slowly Build an Empire” by Naim Kabir
“Cassandra” by Ken Liu
“The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild” (Parts 1 and 2) by Catherynne M. Valente
“All Original Brightness” by Mike Buckley
“Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
“The Clear Blue Seas of Luna” by Gregory Benford (not reviewed—reprint, first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2002)
“The Book Seller” by Lavie Tidhar (not reviewed—reprint, first published in Interzone #244, January-February 2013)
 

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Sherlock Holmes — “Adventure of the Serpent God”

Sherlock Holmes aired “The Adventure of the Serpent God” on March 14, 1948. Out of the nearly 300 OTR episodes we’ve run since June of 2009, this is only the seventh featuring Sherlock Holmes, so we felt it was high time for another grand adventure spotlighting the world’s most famous detective. As always, Dr. Watson …

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