Holiday by M. Rickert

Holiday

by M. Rickert

“Holiday”
“Memoir of a Deer Woman”
“Journey into the Kingdom”
“The Machine”
“Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account”
“Don’t Ask”
“Traitor”
“Was She Wicked? Was She Good?”
“You Have Never Been Here”
“War is Beautiful”
“The Christmas Witch”

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Appointment in Tomorrow (aka Poor Superman) — Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is justly renowned as one of the greatest talents ever to emerge in the science fiction and fantasy field. Some of the best work ever to come out of the genre was produced by Fritz Leiber. Our first Leiber Old Time Radio episode, “A Pail of Air,” is one of his more …

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Sympathy for the Devil, ed. Tim Pratt

Sympathy for the Devil

edited by Tim Pratt


(Night Shade Books, August 2010)

“The Price” by Neil Gaiman
“Beluthahatchie” by Andy Duncan
“Ash City Stomp” by Richard Butner
“Ten for the Devil” by Charles De Lint
“A Reversal of Fortune” by Holly Black
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephen King
“The Power of Speech” Natalie Babbitt
“The Redemption of Silky Bill” by Sarah Zettel
“Sold to Satan” by Mark Twain
“MetaPhysics” by Elizabeth M. Glover
“Snowball’s Chance” by Charles Stross
“Non-Disclosure Agreement” by Scott Westerfield
“Like Riding a Bike” by Jan Wildt
“Bible Stories for Adults, No. 13: The Covenant” by James Morrow
“And the Deep Blue Sea” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Goat Cutter” by Jay Lake
“On the Road to New Egypt” by Jeffrey Ford
“That Hell-Bound Train” by Robert Bloch
“The God of Dark Laughter” Michael Chabon
“The King of the Djinn” by David Ackert and Benjamin Rosenbaum
“Summon, Bind, Banish” by Nick Mamatas
“The Bottle Imp” by Robert Lewis Stevenson
“Two Old Men” by Kage Baker
“…With By Good Intentions” by Carrie Richardson
“Nine Sundays in a Row” by Kris Dikeman
“Lull” by Kelly Link
“We Can Get Them for You Wholesale” by Neil Gaiman
“Details” by China Miéville
“The Devil Disinvests” by Scott Bradfield
“Faustfeathers” by John Kessel
“The Professor’s Teddy Bear” by Theodore Sturgeon
“The Heidelberg Cylinder” by Jonathan Carroll
“Mike’s Place” by David J. Schwartz
“Thus I Refute Beelzy” by John Collier
“Inferno: Canto XXXIV” by Dante Alighieri

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Asimov’s — December 2010

“Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly
“Warfriends” by Tom Purdom
“Libertarian Russia” by Michael Swanwick
“Sins of the Father” by Sara Genge
“Freia in the Sunlight” by Gregory Norman Bossert
“Variations” by Ian Werkheiser
“Excellence” by Robert Reed
“The Prize Beyond Gold” by Ian Creasey

Uncle E” by Carol Emshwiller

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A New Direction

A New Direction

 altAfter nearly seventeen years with the same basic format Tangent Online has now added several new features.

The first of the new sections we’ve titled Classic SF/F. In this section we hope to bring to light outright classics of science fiction and fantasy of which newer readers and writers may not be aware—and sorely need to be, in our estimation—or those works of enduring popularity not necessarily regarded as “classics” in the traditional sense of the word.

 

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