Nightmare #16, January 2014
Author Archives: Dave Truesdale
Strange Horizons, January 20, 2014
Tarzan in “Headhunters of Wombesi”
Tarzan aired “Headhunters of Wombesi” on August 8, 1951. This danger filled episode involves Tarzan agreeing to be the guide for an American photo-journalist come to Africa to show in pictures for his stateside magazine editor the “real” Africa, not the one portrayed in American movies as a dark land of voodoo, tribal sacrifice, and …
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Read More...Strange Horizons, January 13, 2014
Clarkesworld #88, January 2014
Clarkesworld #88, January 2014 “The Clockwork Soldier” by Ken Liu “Grave of the Fireflies” by Cheng Jingbo “Wine” by Yoon Ha Lee Reviewed by Jamie Lackey “The Clockwork Soldier” by Ken Liu transitions from a ship travelling at hyperspeed to a text-based adventure game that the prisoner on the ship has written for his …
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Read More...The Shadow — “The Plot Murder”
“What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” The Shadow (1937-1954) aired “The Plot Murder” on February 27, 1938 as its 23rd episode. With a remarkably prescient SF premise, it tells the story of a military officer wrongly accused of treasonable sabotage, of working with the enemy concerning the testing of a …
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Read More...Strange Horizons, January 6, 2014
Strange Horizons, January 6, 2014
“The Serial Killer’s Astronaut Daughter” by Damien Angelica Walters
Read More...Chilling Tales 2, ed. Michael Kelly
Chilling Tales 2: In Words Alas Drown I
Edited by Michael Kelly
(Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing, Fall 2013)
“Black Hen A La Ford” by David Nickle
“The Dog’s Paw” by Derek Künsken
“Snowglobes” by Lisa L. Hannett
“Meteor Lake” by Kevin Cockle
“In Libitina’s House” by Camille Alexa
“Day Pass” by Ian Rogers
“Gingerbread People” by Colleen Anderson
“The Slipway Grey” by Helen Marshall
“Crossroads Blues” by Robert J. Wiersema
“The Flowers of Katrina” by Claude LaLumière
“Heart of Darkness” by Edo Van Belkom
“Fiddleheads” by Douglas Smith
“Dwelling” on the Past by Simon Strantzas
“The Hair Dress” by Sandra Kasturi
“Weary, Bone Deep” by Michael Matheson
“Honesty” by Rio Youers
“Homebody” by Gemma Files
“Road Rage” by Bev Vincent
“The Salamander’s Waltz” by Catherine MacLeod
“Goldmine” by Daniel Lemoal
“Fishfly Season” by Halli Villegas
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Midnight Echo #10, November 2013
Midnight Echo #10, November 2013
“Lunch” by Joseph A. Pinto
“Crybaby #25” by Gary A Braunbeck
“Stillegeist” by Martin Livings
“I Want To Go Home” by AJ Brown
“Tourist Trap” by Richard Farren Barber
“Blood and Bone” by Robert Mammone
“Exposure Compensation” by Alan Baxter
“Stinson Way: A Southern Gothic” by Jacob Lambert
“A Little Peace” by Rebecca Fung
“Mother’s House” by Greg Chapman
“Moonlight Sonata” by Tim Hawken
“It’s Always The Children Who Suffer” by Alan Baxter
“Darker” by Zena Shapter
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Analog — March 2014
Analog, March, 2014
“Life Flight” by Brad R. Torgersen
“Rubik’s Chromosomes” by Megan Chaudhuri
“Not for Sissies” by Jerry Oltion
“The Teacher’s Gamble” by Stephen L. Burns
“The Avalon Missions” by David Brin
“We Who Are About to Watch You Die Salute You” by Maggie Clark
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