Our OTR episode this week, in homage to Valentine’s Day 2010, showcases an episode dealing with infatuation and love, and the dire consequences when one otherwise normal young man fails to recognize the difference. “Queen of the Cats” aired on The Mysterious Traveler on July 2, 1944 at its then time-slot of 3:30 on Sunday …
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Slightly Behind and to the Left: Four Stories & Three Drabbles
by Claire Light
Aqueduct Press (December 2009)
“Vacation”
“Drabble #1: Herna”
“Pigs in Space”
“Drabble #2: Snake”
“Pinball Effect”
“Drabble #3: Christmas”
“Abducted by Aliens!”
Reviewed by Carole Ann Moleti
Read More...Once again we offer two separate reviews of the same publication; this time the March 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction.
“Helping Take the Old Man Down” by William Preston
“Blind Cat Dance” by Alexander Jablokov
“The Speed of Dreams” by Will Ludwigsen
“Ticket Inspector Gliden Becomes the First Martyr of the Glorious Human Uprising” by Derek Zumsteg
“The Tower” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Centaurs” by Benjamin Crowell
“Sun’s East, Moon’s West” by Merrie Haskell“Enmity” by K. Tempest Bradford“The Sandbox” by Richard Larson“The Leaf Gatherer” by Damon Kaswell“Dear Annabehls” by Mercurio D. Rivera“Life’s Rich Demand” by Trent Walters“An Elderly Pirate Recalls the Death of Love” by Jay Lake“Setting My Spider Free” by Caroline M. Yoachim“All the Blue in the Mirror” by Darin Bradley“The …
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Read More...Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894-November 22, 1963) wrote his landmark cautionary work Brave New World in 1931 and saw it published in 1932. He died at age 69 the same day as President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Brave New World is set in 2540 A. D. (or 632 A. F.–After Ford, …
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Read More...Tangent Online, as it has done numerous times over the years, here offers two separate reviews of the same publication. This time it’s the March 2010 Analog. In no particular order, Carl Slaughter offers his perspective and Maggie Jamison follows with hers.
“Of One Mind” by Shane Tourtellotte
“The Hub of the Matter” by Christopher L. Bennett
“Narrow World” by Carl Frederick
“Encounter at Yellow Wood” by Bud Sparhawk
“Locked In” by Brad Aiken
“Dr. Skenner’s Special Animals” by David Simons
“Ten Thousand Monkeys” by Tocho Ligon
Jeffery D. Kooistra is a science fiction writer, a free-lance physicist, and a father of three. His opinions, observations, and cranky ideas appear in every other issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, in that magazine’s “The Alternate View” feature. He is a member of SIGMA, a collection of SF writers who do think-tanking and consulting as a public service (http://www.sigmaforum.org). He’s also a member of the high IQ Triple Nine Society (http://www.triplenine.org) which his family doesn’t let him forget when he does something stupid.
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H. G. Wells (September 21, 1866-August 13, 1949) saw “A Dream of Armageddon” published in the May/June 1901 issue of Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review. One of many British weekly publications at the time, it ran from 1891 to 1912. (Along with Wells, Black and White would publish, among others, the …
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Empties by George Zebrowski
