Clarkesworld #82, July 2013
Author Archives: Dave Truesdale
Galaxy’s Edge #3, July/August 2013
Lights Out — State Executioner
Lights Out (1934-47) aired “State Executioner” on March 17, 1937 just over 76 years ago. Set in the time of King George III, it is the tale of the King’s official executioner–a hangman–who revels in his job, especially when paid five guineas per hanging. He has gleefully listened to the snap of the neck 777 …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #124, June 27, 2013
Fearsome Journeys, ed. by Jonathan Strahan
Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy
edited by Jonathan Strahan
(Solaris, pb, May 2013, $7.99)
“The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats” by Scott Lynch
“Amethyst, Shadow, and Light” by Saladin Ahmed
“Camp Follower” by Trudi Canavan
“The Dragonslayer of Merebarton” by K. J. Parker
“Leaf and Branch and Grass and Vine” by Kate Elliott
“Spirits of Salt: A Tale of the Coral Heart” by Jeffrey Ford
“Forever People” by Robert V S Redick
“Sponda the Suet Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl” by Ellen Klages
“Shaggy Dog Bridge: A Black Company Story” by Glen Cook
“The Ghost Makers” by Elizabeth Bear
“One Last, Great Adventure” by Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce
“The High King Dreaming” by Daniel Abraham
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Tor.com — June 2013
“The Too-Clever Fox” by Leigh Bardugo
“A Window of a Small Box” by Jedediah Berry
“A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill” by Elizabeth Knox
“Porn & Revolution in the Peaceable Kingdom” by Micaela Morrissette
“The Stranger” by Anna Banks
“Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes
“Jake and the Other Girl” by Emmy Laybourne
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Penumbra #20, May 2013
“The Whale’s Way” by Lane Robbins
“The Hurricane Cavalry” by Lindsey Duncan
“Clementine, Who Swims with Mermaids” by Beth Cato
“Uncommon Ally” by Michael Hodges
“Convergent Motion” by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
“Tocsin” by B. Morris Allen
“Ms. Chalmers and the Silent Service” by Helen Jackson
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Midnight Echo #9, May 2013
“Black Peter” by Martin Livings
“Black Train Blues” by James A. Moore
“Little Boy, Little Girl, Lost in the Woods” by Mark Patrick Lynch
“Coffee Rings” by Kristin Dearborn
“The Wee Folk” by JG Faherty
“The Road” by Amanda J. Spedding
“The Fathomed Wreck to See” by Alan Baxter
“Changeling” by Jonathan Maberry
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Free Book Giveaway
R. S. Belcher, author of The Six-Gun Tarot and Tangent Online Host Free Book Giveaway (Books generously donated by Tor/Forge) 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be announced here on Monday, July 15th, 2013. First Place winner will receive three 2013 Tor books of winner’s choice. Second Place will receive two …
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Read More...X Minus One — The Girls from Earth by Frank M. Robinson
X Minus One aired Frank M. Robinson’s (1926- ) “The Girls from Earth” on January 16th, 1957 as its 84th episode. The novelette originally appeared in the January 1952 issue of Galaxy, which just happened to coincide with inclusion of the first part of Alfred Bester’s serialized novel The Demolished Man. Robinson takes his cue …
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