Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Unidentified Funny Objects

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Unidentified Funny Objects

Edited by Alex Shvartsman

UFO Publishing, November 2012

(www.ufopub.com)

“Timber!” by Scott Almes

“The Alien Invasion As Seen in the Twitter Stream of @dweebless” by Jake Kerr
“Dreaming Harry” by Stephanie Burgis
“Fight Finale From the Near Future!” by James Beamon
“Temporal Shimmies” by Jennifer Pelland
“The Day They Repossessed My Zombies” by K.G. Jewell
“Moon Landing” by Lavie Tidhar
“The Last Dragon Slayer” by Chuck Rothman
“The Venus of Willendorf” by Deborah Walker
“Love Thy Neighbors” by Ken Liu
“The Alchemist’s Children” by Nathaniel Lee
“The Fifty-One Suitors of Princess Jamatpie” by Leah Cypess
“If You Act Now” by Sergey Lukyanenko
“No Silver Lining” by Zach Shepard
“Go Karts of the Gods” by Michael Kurland
“My Kingdom for a Horse” by Stephen D. Rogers
“Cake from Mars” by Marko Kloos
“An Unchanted Sword” by Jeff Stehman
“The Real Thing” by Don Sakers
“2001 Revisited Via 1969” by Bruce Golden
“First Date” by Jamie Lackey
“One-hand Tantra” by Ferrett Steinmetz
“Of Mat and Math” by Anatoly Belilovsky
“All I Want for Christmas” by Siobhan Gallagher
“The Velveteen Golem” by David Sklar
“The Working Stiff” by Matt Mikalatos
“Worm’s Eye View” by Jody Lynn Nye
“The Secret Life of Sleeping Beauty” by Charity Tahmaseb
“El and Al vs. Himmler’s Horrendous Horde from Hell” by Mike Resnick

 

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X Minus One — “Knock” by Fredric Brown

Posted byDave Truesdale

X Minus One aired “Knock” by Fredric Brown (1906-1972) on May 22, 1955. It saw print originally in the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. Familiar to almost all science fiction fans, it begins with the famous two opening sentences, making these lines the shortest SF story ever told: “The last man on Earth …

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Fantasy & Science Fiction — Jan./Feb. 2013

Posted byLouis West

Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2013

“Watching the Cow” by Alex Irvine

“Night Train to Paris” by David Gerrold
“A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” by Ken Liu
“Devil or Angel” by Matthew Hughes
“This is How You Disappear” by Dale Bailey
“A Haunting in Love City” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“The Blue Celeb” by Desmond Warzel
“Among Us” by Robert Reed
“Ten Lights and Darks” by Judith Moffett
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