Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

X Minus One — “Lulungameena” by Gordon R. Dickson

Posted byDave Truesdale

X Minus One (1955-58) aired Gordon R. Dickson’s novelette “Lulungameena” on May 29, 1956 as its 53rd episode. It appeared in the January 1954 issue of Galaxy and is the first story where Dickson’s soon to be famous Dorsai mercenaries are mentioned (though it is not technically a Dorsai story–those would come much later). “Lulungameena” …

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Tangent Online 2014 Recommended Reading List

Posted byDave Truesdale

 

Tangent Online 2014 Recommended Reading List

 

As with previous years, this list is not meant as comprehensive, there being several items we didn’t see. As was the case with the last several years we narrowed our focus (with rare exception) to those stories published in professionally paying markets as defined by SFWA. While SFWA changed its pro-market requirements in 2014 to 6c/wd., we will continue to cover those markets paying the former rate of 5c/wd.

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Carbide Tipped Pens, ed. Ben Bova & Eric Choi

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Carbide Tipped Pens:

Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction

Edited by Ben Bova and Eric Choi

(Tor, December 2014, 400 pages)

 

“The Blue Afternoon that Lasted Forever” by Daniel H. Wilson
“A Slow Unfurling of Truth” by Aliette de Bodard
“Thunderwell” by Doug Beason
“The Circle” by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu)
“Old Timer’s Game” by Ben Bova
“The Snows of Yesteryear” by Jean-Louis Trudel
“Skin Deep” by Leah Petersen & Gabrielle Harbowy
“Lady with Fox” by Gregory Benford
“Habilis” by Howard Hendrix
“The Play’s the Thing” by Jack McDevitt
“Every Hill Ends with Sky” by Robert Reed
“She Just Looks that Way” by Eric Choi
“SIREN of Titan” by David DeGraff
“The Yoke of Inauspicious Stars” by Kate Story
“Ambiguous Nature” by Carl Frederick
“The Mandelbrot Bet” by Dirk Strasser
“Recollection” by Nancy Fulda
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Analog — Jan./Feb. 2015

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Analog, January/February 2015

 
“Defender of Worms” by Richard A. Lovett
“Malnutrition” by J. T. Sharrah
“Just Browsing” by Stephen Lombard
“The Great Leap of Shin” by Henry Lien
“Usher” by Jay Werkheiser
“Ulenge Prime” by Chuck Rothman
“Long Way Gone” by David L. Clements
“Orion Rising” by Arlan Andrews, Sr.
“The Yoni Sutra” by Priya Chand
“Why the Titanic Hit the Iceberg” by Jerry Oltion
“Fool’s Errand” by Judith Tarr
“Samsara and Ice” by Andy Dudak
“Marduk’s Folly” by Sean Vivier
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