Analog, March 2011
“Rule Book” by Paul Carlson
“Falls the Firebrand” by Sarah Frost
“Hiding from Nobel” by Brad Aiken
“Julie is Three” by Craig Delancey
“Astronomic Distance, Geologic Time” by Bud Sparhawk
“Taboo” by Jerry Oltion
“Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the
Missing Teenage Anachronisms” by John G. Hemry
Reviewed by Bob Blough
Read More...The 2011 Nebula Awards banquet was held Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Washington, D.C. Presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) annually, the winners are as follows. While we congratulate all of this year’s recipients, we are especially proud of Eric James Stone for his win in the novelette category, for Eric hosts and maintains the Tangent Online website. Heartfelt congratulations, Eric!
Read More...“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. The Shadow knows!” “Death Coils to Strike” aired on March 21, 1948. It opens with the appearance of a beautiful young woman who dances sinuously to music from her recently departed home in South America, where she caught the eye of an American engineer who …
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OSC InterGalactic Medicine Show #22, April/May 2011
“Love, Cayce” by Marie Brennan
“We Who Steal Faces” by Tony Pi
“Exodus Tides” by Aliette de Bodard
“Exiles of Eden” by Brad R. Torgersen
“The Long Way Home” by G. Norman Lippert
“The Bus Stop” by David Lubar
Reviewed by Rena Hawkins
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Asimov’s, February 2011
“The Choice” by Paul McAuley
“Out of the Dream Closet” by David Ira Cleary
“Waster Mercy” by Sara Genge
“Planet of the Sealies” by Jeff Carlson
“Shipbirth” by Aliette de Bodard
“Brother Sleep” by Tim McDaniel
“Eve of Beyond” by Bill Prozini and Barry N. Malzberg
Reviewed by Bob Leishman
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies #66, April 7, 2011
“Dancing the Warrior, Pt. I” by Marie Brennan
“The Fairy Gaol” by Heather Fawcett
Reviewed by Jo-Anne Odell
Read More...J. T. McIntosh is the most familiar pseudonym used by Scottish author James Murdoch MacGregor (1925– ). Fairly prolific throughout the 1950s and 1960s, McIntosh saw many of his stories published in Astounding, Galaxy, and F&SF. His writing time was split between his short work and numerous novels, the last of which, A Planet Called …
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Read More...Tangent Online Presents:
An Interview with Clifford D. Simak
(1904-1988)
Interviewers:
Dave Truesdale & Paul McGuire
Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Event & Date:
Minicon 10
April 18-20, 1975
Originally appeared in Tangent No. 2, May 1975
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Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2011
“The Evening and the Morning” by Sheila Finch
“Scatter My Ashes ” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“The Second Kalandar’s Tale” by Francis Marion Soty
“A Pocketful of Faces” by Paul Di Filippo
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
“Night Gauntlet” by Walter C. DeBill, Jr., Richard Gavin, Robert M. Price, W. H. Pugmire, Jeffrey Thomas, and Don Webb
“Happy Ending 2.0” by James Patrick Kelly
“Bodyguard” by Karl Bunker
“Botanical Exercises for Curious Girls” by Kali Wallace
“Ping” by Dixon Wragg
“The Ifs of Time” by James Stoddard
Reviewed by Rena Hawkins
Read More...Henry Kuttner (1915-1958), along with Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, and others, sold stories to Charm magazine back in the 1940s. Kuttner’s “Housing Problem” saw print in this popular women’s magazine in its October 1944 issue. It has proved so, well…charming that it has been reprinted many times. Among other places it was reprinted in Kuttner’s …
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