Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

X Minus One — How-2 by Clifford D. Simak

Posted byDave Truesdale

Bowing to the overwhelming popularity of last week’s Clifford D. Simak X Minus One story “Drop Dead,” we are breaking tradition and offering another Cliff Simak story, back to back, as it were, and a first. X Minus One aired Cliff’s “How-2” on April 3, 1956. It first saw print in the November 1954 issue …

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Judgment Day and Other Dreams by T. Jackson King

Posted byJohn Sulyok

Judgment Day and Other Dreams

by

T. Jackson King

Fantastic Books
(2nd edition, 2012, 240 pp.)

On Earth
“Judgment Day At John’s Bar”
“The Totem”
“Litter Control”

In Space
“Tears for Ozymandias”
“The Fire Rains”
“The Memory Seller”
“The Tides of Fear”
“Paladin”
“False Contact”
“Lex Talionis”
“Endless Summer”
“Sumiko’s Hope”

Back On Earth
“The Fellowship of Manzanar”
“A Lesser Michaelangelo”
“The Gate of Ishtar, From Babylon, In Berlin”

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Lore, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2012

Posted byChuck Rothman
Lore, Vol. 2,  No. 1, April 2012

“Fairy Gold” by Peadar Ó Guilín
“Picking Roses For Chateelet” by Garrett Ashley
“Wait” by Kevin Wallis
“Splash” by Don Webb, Richard Lupoff, Scott Cupp, Michael Kurland, Michael Mallory,

  Paul Di Filippo, and Jim Kelly
“Toll and Trouble” by David A. Hill
“Lonely, Lonely” by Daniel P. Swenson
“She Wanted to Go into the Trees” by Patricia Russo
“The Spacetime Subway Station” by Clinton Lawrence
“The Deposition of Leodiel Fand” from Brian McNaughton
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X Minus One — Drop Dead by Clifford D. Simak

Posted byDave Truesdale

X Minus One (1955-58) aired Clifford D. Simak’s “Drop Dead” on August 22, 1957. It originally saw print in the July 1956 issue of Galaxy. Astronauts scouting a new planet discover–upon dissection–that the dominant lifeform sports every vital organ (or equivalent thereof as they know them)…except a brain. Perplexed, and, upon further examination and their …

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