Last Train Outta Kepler–283c, edited by David Boop

Last Train Outta Kepler-283c Edited by David Boop (Baen Books, November 2024, 272 pp, pb) “Time Marches On” by Kevin Ikenberry “Last Train to Clarkesville” by Steve Miller & Sharon Lee “The Rogue Tractor of Sunshine Gulch” by Kelli Fitzpatrick “Living by the Sword” by David Mack “The Ballad of the Junk Heap Gun Man …

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Favorite Story — “The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife”

Favorite Story (1946-49) aired “The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife” on January 22, 1949. The idea behind this popular show was to invite personalities of the time—authors, musicians, movie stars, sports celebrities, and others with a high profile–-to offer their favorite stories to be dramatized on radio. We’ve run a dozen to date, the …

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Zebra Meridian and Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole

Zebra Meridian and Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole (Stelliform Press, September 2024, pb, 306 pp.) “Billy Ray’s Small Appliance Rehabilitation” “The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing, or, A For Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro” “Song of Mary” “Two from the Field, Two from the Mill” “Captured Carbon” “The Way of the Shrike” …

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Strange Horizons, November 11th & 18th, 2024

[On May 10, 2021 Strange Horizons officially expressed its political support for Palestinian solidarity. The views of Tangent Online reviewers are not necessarily those of Strange Horizons. Fiction critiqued at Tangent Online is, as much as is humanly possible, without prejudice and based solely on artistic merit.] Strange Horizons, November 11th & 18th, 2024 “The …

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Sword and Scandal, ed. by J. Manfred Weichsel

Sword & Scandal Edited by J. Manfred Weichsel (Independently Published, November 12, 2024, 198 pp, hc) “The Gateway of Pleasure” by Jim Lee “Shaven Beards” by Ross Baxter “The Snow Princess” by Pip Pinkerton “Vermina’s Creature” by Bitter Karella “The Baron with a Thousand Cats” by Gary Every “Windblades” by C.L. Werner “Flesh and Ink” …

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