Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

X Minus One — “Project Mastodon” by Clifford D. Simak

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X Minus One aired “Project Mastodon” on June 5, 1956 as its 54th episode. Clifford D. Simak saw his story first published in the March 1955 issue of Galaxy. It would later be greatly rewritten and expanded into his 1978 novel Mastodonia. “Project Mastodon” is a time travel story, and X Minus One‘s dramatization tells …

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Ghosts of Engines Past by Sean McMullen

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Ghosts of Engines Past

by Sean McMullen

(ReAnimus Press, October 2013, 224 pp.)

 

“Eight Miles” (Analog, September 2012 – Hugo Award finalist, Year’s Best SF 2011)
“The Constant Past” (Dreaming Again, ed. Dann, Harper Collins, 2008)
“The Spiral Briar” (F&SF, April/May 2009)
“The Art of the Dragon” (F&SF, August/September 2009)
“Voice of Steel” (sf.com, August 2002 – Winner, Nova Fantasy Award; BSFA award nominee)
“The Pharoah’s Airship” (Omega, July/August 1986 – Winner, Omega award)
“Tower Of Wings” (Analog, December 2001 – Winner, Analog Readers award)
“Svyatagor” (Andromeda Spaceways #3, 2002)
“Dragon Black” (Pandora, February 2007)
“Ninety Thousand Horses” (Analog, January/February 2012 – Winner, Analog Readers Award)
“Electrica” (F&SF, March/April 2012)
“Steamgothic” (Interzone, July/August 2012 – Best SF of the Year 30)
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Inner Sanctum — “Magic Tile”

Posted byDave Truesdale

Inner Sanctum (1941-52) aired “Magic Tile” on March 8, 1948 as its 361st episode. An ancient Chinese artifact known as the Magic Tile calls up the ghost of a dead man who provides a young woman evidence of terrible wrongdoing perpetrated in the past, and which directly impacts her present life. Inner Sanctum, with its …

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Writers of the Future, Vol. 30, edited by Dave Wolverton

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Writers of the Future, Volume 30

Edited by Dave Wolverton

(Galaxy Press, May, 2014)

 

“Another Range of Mountains” by Megan E. O’Keefe
“Shifter” by Paul Eckheart
“Beneath the Surface of Two Kills” by Shauna O’Meara
“Animal” by Terry Madden
“Rainbows for Other Days” by C. Stuart Hardwick
“Giants at the End of the World” by Leena Likitalo
“The Clouds In Her Eyes” by Liz Colter

“What Moves the Sun and Other Stars” by K.C. Norton

“Long Jump” by Oleg Kazantsev

“These Walls of Despair” by Anaea Lay
“The Shaadi Exile” by Amanda Forrest

“The Pushbike Legion” by Timothy Jordan

“Memories Bleed Beneath the Mask” by Randy Henderson

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Lights Out — “The Spider”

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Lights Out aired “The Spider” on May 18, 1943, near the end of radio’s premier horror series’ 13-year run (1934-47). For those who endure a day-to-day phobic hate of spiders this story is guaranteed to give you nightmares. Written by old time radio’s golden boy Arch Oboler, two adventurers set out to capture the largest …

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