Offshoots: Humanity Twigged, edited by Juliana Rew

Offshoots: Humanity Twigged Edited by Juliana Rew (Third Flatiron Anthologies, Summer/Fall, July 2024, 238 pp., pb) “Another Day, Another Me” by Catherine Weaver “Monad” by Jackson Willis “Smarthouse Revolution” by Curtis James McConnell “The Magic of AI” by M. Richard Eley “Rogue Garden, Rogue Gardener” by John A. Frochio “Ginger” by Robin Pond “Software” by …

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Boston Blackie — “The Undersea Murder”

Boston Blackie (1944, 1945-1950) aired “The Undersea Murder” on October 1, 1946 as the 77th broadcast of the estimated 220 from its 1945-1950 run. This is but the sixth Boston Blackie episode we have featured, the first in 2018 with this being only the second since July of 2022, so for newcomers I recap below …

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Cirsova #20, Fall 2024

Cirsova #20, Fall 2024 “The Superior Griefs” by Michael Tierney (serial, not reviewed) “The Short Unhappy Immortality of Owen McKinty” by Bill Willingham “Beneath the Samite Shroud of the Grave Sphinx” by Matthew Pungitore “In the Thrall of Tessa Nyx” by Michael Gallagher “The Ragged Red Masque at Carter’s Hall” by Caroline Furlong “Necromancing the …

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Lightspeed #171, August 2024

Lightspeed #171, August 2024 “Mud Maidens Rise” by K. A. Wiggins “The Darkness Between the Stars” by Richard Thomas “Look at the Moon” by Dominique Dickey “Resistance” by Cat Rambo “What’s in a Name” by Matthew Hughes “The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d” by Archita Mittra “Child of the River” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe “Under …

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