Black Gate Online, July 2013
Author Archives: Dave Truesdale
The Shadow — The Creeper
“What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” The Shadow (1937-54) aired “The Creeper” on May 29, 1938 and featured a young (age 22) Orson Welles as the first voice of the Shadow. Welles would step down as the Shadow in October of 1938, so this is not only one of the …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #126, July 25, 2013
Lightspeed #39, August 2013
“The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu
“Breathless in the Deep” by Cory Skerry
“The Knight of Chains, the Deuce of Stars” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Face Value” by Sean Williams
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Nightbeat — The Devil’s Bible
Nightbeat (1949-52) aired “The Devil’s Bible” on July 24, 1950. This noir “detective” show featured film–and later TV–star Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, the nightbeat reporter for the fictional Chicago Star newspaper. This episode revolves around a seminal occult work known variously as The Devil’s Bible, The Black Gospel, and the Codex Gigas–and really exists …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #125, July 11, 2013
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #125, July 11, 2013
Nightmare #11, August 2013
“All My Princes Are Gone” by Jennifer Giesbrecht
“How Far to Englishman’s Bay” by Matthew Cheney
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Nautilus #3, July 2013
Robert Bloch Appreciations of McComas, Russell, & Brackett
Robert Bloch Appreciations of J. Francis McComas, Eric Frank Russell, and Leigh Brackett
from the Starlog SF Yearbook
edited by
David Gerrold and Dave Truesdale, 1979
Starship Century, ed. James & Gregory Benford
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon
Edited by James Benford & Gregory Benford
(Microwave Sciences, August 13, 2013, tpb, 334 pp.)
Articles
“Starships: Reaching for the Highest Bar” by James & Gregory Benford
“Our Only Chance” by Stephen Hawking
“Noah’s Ark Eggs and Warm-Blooded Plants” by Freeman Dyson
“To the Ends of the Universe” by Martin Rees
“Starships and the Fates of Humankind” by Peter Schwartz
“On the Way to Starflight: The Economics of Interstellar Breakout” by Robert Zubrin
“The Nuclear Rocket: Workhorse of the Solar System” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“Starship Pioneers” by Adam Crowl
“Sailships” by James Benford
“Starship Destinations” by Stephen Baxter & Ian Crawford
“Exotic Technologies for Interstellar Travel” by John Cramer
“Afterword” by Paul Davies
Stories
“Cathedrals” by Allen M. Steele
“Atmosphaera Incognita” by Neal Stephenson
“Coda: Atmosphaera Incognita” by Gregory Benford
“Knotweed and Gardenias” by Nancy Kress
“The Man Who Sold the Stars” by Gregory Benford
“Across the Dark, the Pioneers” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“Living Large” by Richard A. Lovett
“The Heavy Generation” by David Brin
“Star Call” by Stephen Baxter
“Tricentennial” by Joe Haldeman
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