Escape — “Back for Christmas” by John Collier

Escape aired John Collier’s famous story “Back for Christmas” on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1947. John Collier (1901-1980) enjoyed seeing a number of his clever, many times dark or supernatural stories adapted for radio and television. This particular story was adapted thrice over a number of years for Suspense, and was a featured episode of …

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Tesseracts 17, ed. Colleen Anderson & Steve Vernon

Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast

edited by Colleen Anderson & Steve Vernon

(Edge, Fall 2013)

 
“Vermilion Wine” by Claude Lalumière
“The Wall” by Rhea Rose
“2020 Vision” by Lisa Smedman
“Why Pete?” by Timothy Reynolds
“Bird Bones” by Megan Fennell
“Bedtime Story” by Rhonda Parrish
“Graveyard Shift” by Holly Schofield
“The Path of Souls” by Edward Willett
Sin A Squay” by David Jón Fuller
“Hereinafter Referred to as the Ghost” by Mark Leslie
“Anywhere” by Alyxandra Harvey
“Secret Recipes” by Costi Gurgu
“Star Severer” by Ben Godby
“The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife” by Dave Beynon
“Graffiti Borealis” by Lisa Poh
“Team Leader 2040” by Catherine Austen
“Sand Hill” by Elise Moser
“The Ripping” by Vincent Grant Perkins
Pique Assiette” by Catherine MacLeod
“Everybody Wins” by Rachel Cooper
“In the Bubble” by William Meikle
“Hermione and Me” by Dwain Campbell
“Blizzard Warning” by Jason Barrett
“M.E.L.” by Dianne Homan
“The Calligrapher’s Daughter” by Patricia Robertson
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X Minus One — “Target One” by Frederik Pohl

X Minus One aired “Target One” on December 26, 1957 as its 123rd episode. This Fred Pohl (1919-2013) short story originally saw print in the April 1955 issue of Galaxy. It is a fairly standard time travel story, but with a twist. Men are sent back in time to eliminate Albert Einstein in hopes his …

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