Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Bad-Ass Faeries 3: In All Their Glory

Posted byCarole Ann Moleti

Bad-Ass Faeries, Volume 3: In All Their Glory

Edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi-Lamplighter,

Lee C. Hillman, and Jeffrey Lyman

Mundania Press (May 2010)

Troop Fae

“War and Circuses” by D.C. Wilson
“Uddereek” by Hildy Silverman
“Brownies vs. Blondies” by Chris Pisano and Brian Koscienski
“Last Gate to Faerie” by Trisha Woodridge and Christy Tohara
“Fae Fighters” by Lee C. Hillman

Covert Fae

“At The Grasshopper’s Hill” by Robert E. Waters
“I Carry No Gun” by Bernie Mojzes
“Return of the Hero” by C.J. Henderson
“The Natural-Born Spy” by James Daniel Ross
“Snow and Iron” by Darren W. Pearce and Neal Levin

Support Fae

“A Brief Battle for the Throne” by Jeffrey Lyman
“Not-So-Silent Night” by L. Jagi Lamplighter
“Selk-Skin Deep” by Kelly A. Harmon
“Theatre of Conflict” by Jason Franks
“The Size of the Fight In the Soldier” by Patrick Thomas
“Amazons and Predators” by David Lee Summers

Civilian Fae

“The Price of Friendship” by David Sherman
“Field of Honor” by Elaine Corvidae
“Faerie Ring Blues” by James Chambers
“So Many Deaths” by John L. French
“Seeing Red” by Danielle Ackley McPhail

Reviewed by Carole Ann Moleti

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Time and Time Again — H. Beam Piper

Posted byDave Truesdale

H. Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – November 6, 1964) saw his first published story, “Time and Time Again,” appear in the April 1947 issue of Astounding Science Fiction (ASF). In his relatively short career he would produce some of science-fiction’s most popular and beloved stories, including his “Little Fuzzy” stories and novels (from which …

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Catastrophia, ed. Allen Ashley

Posted byRena Hawkins

CATASTROPHIA

Edited by Allen Ashley

(PS Publishing, November 2010)

“Fade” by David Gullen
“A Hard Place” by Carole Johnstone
“Up” by Andrew Hook
“Stephen’s Boat” by Billie Bundschuh
“Noose” by Adam Roberts
“Check” by Robert Guffey
“Something For Nothing” by Joe Essid
“The Phoney War” by Nina Allan
“Happy Ending” by Simon Clark
“Nanoamerica” by David John Baker
“Pixels on a Screen” by Patrick Shuler
“Scalped” by Jet McDonald
“Gravity Wave” by Douglas Thompson
“In The Face of Disaster” by Ian Sales
“Trouble With Telebrations” by Tim Nickels
“The Long Road to the Sea” by James L. Sutter
“Crashes” by Stuart Young
“Hapless Humanity” by Brian W. Aldiss

Reviewed by Rena Hawkins

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Analog, Jan./Feb. 2011

Posted byRichard E. D. Jones

“Some of Them Closer” by Marissa Lingen
“The First Conquest of Earth” by David W. Goldman
“Multivac’s Singularity” by Richard A. Lovett
“Out There” by Norman Spinard
“A Snitch in Time” by Donald Moffitt
“Non-Native Species” by Janet Freeman
“The Frog Prince” by Michael F. Flynn
“Stay” by Stephen L. Burns
“The Unfinished Man” by Dave Creek
“Enigma” by Sean McMullen
“At Cross Purposes” by Juliete Wade
“The First Day of Eternity” by Domingo Santos (as translated by Stanley Schmidt)

Reviewed by Richard E. D. Jones

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Collecting Fantasy Art #2: Aces and Earls

Posted byRobert Weinberg

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 second installment, which he titles “Aces and Earls.” Bob recounts more of the valuable connections he made early on, including those of Sam Moskowitz and Gerry de la Ree, and how he came into possession of one of the largest finds in his collecting career. 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 (an even dozen) to enhance his fascinating narrative.

(Cover painting at left by W. H. McCauley for Imagination, October 1954. Cover at right by Ed Valigursky for the first paperback edition of City.)

 

Collecting Fantasy Art #2

Aces and Earls

By Robert Weinberg

 

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