Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

Posted byChuck Rothman

The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination

edited by John Joseph Adams

(Tor, February 2013)

 
“Professor Incognito Apologizes: An Itemized List” by Austin Grossman
“Father of the Groom” by Harry Turtledove
“Laughter at the Academy” by Seanan McGuire
“Letter to the Editor” by David D. Levine
“Instead of a Loving Heart” by Jeremiah Tolbert (reprint)
“The Executor” by Daniel H. Wilson
“The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan” by Heather Lindsley
“Homo Perfectus” by David Farland
“Ancient Equations” by L. A. Banks
“Rural Singularity” by Alan Dean Foster
“Captain Justice Saves the Day” by Genevieve Valentine
“The Mad Scientist’s Daughter” by Theodora Goss (reprint)
“The Space Between” by Diana Gabaldon (reprint)
“Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution” by Carrie Vaughn
“Blood & Stardust” by Laird Barron
“A More Perfect Union” by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
“Rocks Fall” by Naomi Novik
“We Interrupt This Broadcast” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“The Last Dignity of Man” by Marjorie M. Liu
“The Pittsburgh Technology” by Jeffrey Ford
“Mofongo Knows” by Grady Hendrix
“The Food Taster’s Boy” by Ben Winters
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Win Some, Lose Some… by Mike Resnick

Posted byRichard E. D. Jones

Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning

(and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy

of Mike Resnick

(ISFiC Press, August 2012, hc, 600 pp.)

Series editor, Steven H Silver

 

1989 – “Kirinyaga,” (winner) introduced by Gardner Dozois
1990 – “For I Have Touched the Sky,” Introduced by Nancy Kress
1991 – “Bully!” Introduced by Harry Turtledove
1991 – “The Manamouki,” (winner) introduced by Connie Willis
1992 – “Winter Solstice,” introduced by Laura Resnick
1992 – “One Perfect Morning, With Jackals,” introduced by Janis Ian
1993 – “The Lotus and the Spear,” introduced by Ralph Roberts
1994 – “Mwalimu in the Squared Circle,” introduced by Barry N. Malzberg
1995 – “Barnaby in Exile,” introduced by John Scalzi
1995 – “A Little Knowledge,” introduced by Nick DiChario
1995 – “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge,” (winner) introduced by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1996 – “When the Old Gods Die,” introduced by Michael Stackpole
1996 – “Bibi (with Susan Schwartz),” introduced by Susan Shwartz
1997 – “The Land of Nod,” introduced by Lou Anders
1998 – “The 43 Antarean Dynasties,” (winner) introduced by Michael Swanwick
2000 – “Hothouse Flowers,” introduced by Kay Kenyon
2000 – “Hunting the Snark,” introduced by David Brin
2001 – “The Elephants on Neptune,” introduced by Jack McDevitt
2002 – “Old MacDonald Had a Farm,” introduced by Eric Flint
2002 – “Redchapel,” introduced by Kevin J. Anderson
2004 – “Robots Don’t Cry,” introduced by Robert Silverberg
2005 – “A Princess of Earth,” introduced by Catherine Asaro
2005 – “Travels with My Cats,” (winner) introduced by Sheila Williams
2006 – “Down Memory Lane,” introduced by Michael A. Burstein
2007 – “All the Things You Are,” introduced by Robert J. Sawyer
2008 – “Distant Replay,” introduced by Lezli Robyn
2009 – “Article of Faith,” introduced by James Patrick Kelly
2009 – “Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders,” introduced by Bill Fawcett
2010 – “The Bride of Frankenstein,” introduced by Kij Johnson
2011 – “The Homecoming,” introduced by Brad R. Torgersen
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X Minus One — Nightfall by Isaac Asimov

Posted byDave Truesdale

X Minus One aired Isaac Asimov’s novelette “Nightfall” on December 7, 1955. Written in March of 1941 when Asimov (1919-1992) had just turned 21, “Nightfall” was his 16th published story, but the first to rate a cover spot. John W. Campbell, Jr. gave it the cover as lead novelette for the September 1941 issue of …

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