Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Diabolical Plots #1, March 2015

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Diabolical Plots #1, March 2015 “Taste the Whip” by Andy Dudak Reviewed by Cyd Athens Diabolical Plots (DP) is a new fiction ezine, brought to us by “two aspirant fiction writers.” This pro-rate paying ezine which covers the full spectra of speculative fiction—books, movies, video games, and so forth—has recently added fiction (maximum length 2,000 …

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X Minus One — “A Wind is Rising” by Robert Sheckley

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X Minus One aired “A Wind is Rising” on October 3, 1957 as its 114th episode. Written by Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) under the penname Finn O’Donneven, it originally appeared in the July 1957 issue of Galaxy (where another of Sheckley’s stories would appear under his own name–see below). On the planet Karella two advance Earth …

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Uncanny Magazine #3, March/April 2015

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Uncanny Magazine #3, March/April 2015

“Those” by Sofia Samatar
“The Lamps Thereof Are Fire and Flames” by Rosamund Hodge
“Translatio Corporis” by Kat Howard
“Ivory Darts, Golden Arrows” by Maria Dahvana Headley
“When the Circus Lights Down” by Sarah Pinsker
“Dr. Polingyouma’s Machine” by Emily Devenport
“You Are Two Point Three Meters from Your Destination” by Fran Wilde
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