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Columbia Workshop (1936-1947) aired “R. U. R.” (Rossum’s Universal Robots) on April 18, 1937 as the 36th show of its nearly 400. Czech author Karel Capek saw his play published in Prague in 1920 (1st ed. cover at right). It then premiered on stage a year later in 1921. Translated into 30 languages by 1923, …
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Asimov’s, February, 2014
Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2014
Tangent Online 2013 Recommended Reading List
As with previous years, this list is not meant as comprehensive, there being several items we were not able to acquire and there are always the few stray stories published in non-traditional venues which we did not see. As was the case last year we narrowed our focus (with rare exception) to those stories published in professionally paying markets as defined by SFWA (5c/wd.). While SFWA has changed its pro-market requirements for 2014 to 6c/wd. we will continue to cover those markets paying the former rate of 5c/wd.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes aired “The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel” on December 28, 1946, 67 years ago to this very day of December 28, 2013. The primary writers for almost all of these Holmes adventures were Denis Green and co-founder of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Anthony Boucher (1911-1968, …
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies #137, December 26, 2013
New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond
edited John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen
(47North, pb February 2013, $14.95)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #136, December 12, 2013
“Kurtana” by Christian K. Martinez
“Walking Still” by C.T. Hutt
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