The Galactic Center Companion: An Authorized Guide to the Galactic Center by Gregory Benford (Lucky Bat Books, March 2014) Reviewed by Louis West Gregory Benford is an astrophysicist and prolific hard-SF author who’s published dozens of works over the last forty years, won Nebula and John W. Campbell awards in addition to being nominated multiple …
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies #145, April 17, 2014
Columbia Workshop (1936-57) aired “Danse Macabre” on March 21, 1937. Scripted by Helen Bergeron and George Zachary, it shows us Death, in the guise of a vagabond fiddler, stalking the countryside of a kingdom peddling his wares. When people begin dying (symptoms described are those we now know as the Plague, but are never stated), …
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Astronomical Odds: Third Flatiron Anthologies
(Volume 3, Spring 2014)
Edited by Juliana Rew
InterGalactic Medicine Show #38, March/April 2014
X Minus One aired “The C-Chute” on February 2, 1956 as its 37th episode. Written by Isaac Asimov (1919-1992), it originally appeared in the October 1951 issue of Galaxy–the magazine’s first anniversary issue. Full of action, adventure, and human drama, “The C-Chute” plunges us into an interstellar war where aliens have captured one of our …
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by Harlen Bayha & Clancy Weeks
Analog, June 2014
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