A Gun For Dinosaur — L. Sprague de Camp

L(yon) Sprague de Camp (1907 – 2000) had his first story, “The Isolinguals,” published in 1937. He wrote fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction. His best-known fantasies were perhaps the stories (written with Fletcher Pratt) collected as The Incomplete Enchanter (1941); and his best-known historical fiction was The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961) …

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Tangent Online Recommended Reading List 2010

Analog cover november 2010TANGENT ONLINE RECOMMENDED READING LIST—2010


If my count is correct, there are almost 190 short stories, novellas and novelettes in the following list, not including those in Dave’s afterword. In spite of the fact that Tangent Online comprises more than a dozen regular reviewers and a number of occasional ones, that’s a pretty impressive reading list. And these are only the ones we recommend—for every story you see on this list, there are at least four others that didn’t make the cut. This is up from 170-plus in last year’s list.

 

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Tor, January 2011

Tor, January 2011 “Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair” by Ken Scholes “Beauty  Belongs to the Flowers” by Matthew Sanborn Smith Reviewed by Caroline E. Willis “Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair” by Ken Scholes is about a skinny, alcoholic clown freeing an alien monkey from an insurance company. “Alien monkey” …

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Apex #19 — December 2010

APEX Magazine #19, December, 2010 “Radishes“ by Nick Wolven “Pale, and from a Sea Wave Rising“ by C.S.E. Cooney Reviewed by: Rena Hawkins In “Radishes“ by Nick Wolven, the author introduces us to an offworld colony with a very familiar problem: hunger. Melody and her husband (lover?), who is the story’s viewpoint character, are starving …

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Blind Swimmer, edited by David Rix

Blind Swimmer, edited by David Rix “Bellony” by Nina Allan “The Flea Market” by Gerald Houarner “The Talkative Star” by Rhys Hughes “The Man Who Saw Grey” by Brendan Connell “The Book of Tides” by David Rix “Flights of Fancy” by Allen Ashley “Pigs Eyes” by Jet McDonald “The Flowers of Uncertainty” by Douglas Thompson …

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Collecting Fantasy Art #3: Meet Marty G.

Robert Weinberg continues his personal look back at the earliest years of his almost four decades of collecting science-fiction and fantasy art with this third installment, which he titles “Meet Marty G.” Bob tells about getting art from some of the early practitioners of SF and Fantasy art, including Margaret Brundage, H.R. van Dongen, and Ed Valigursky. This installment introduces another major influence on Bob’s collecting: Martin Greenberg. Once again, we thank Bob for providing this on-going historical perspective (which has all the earmarks of a book in the making somewhere down the road), and also for providing select pieces from his personal collection to enhance his fascinating narrative.

Margaret Brundage Mermaid paintingValigursky Fantastic June 1959

(Cover painting at left by Margaret Brundage. Cover at right by Ed Valigursky for Fantastic, June 1959.)

 Collecting Fantasy Art #3

Meet Marty G.

By Robert Weinberg

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