“Heavens to Betsy” aired on Suspense on October 11, 1955 and was written and transcribed by the show’s producer Antony Ellis. In telling and dramatic fashion it exposes a much too familiar slice of human nature as a UFO lands in the backyard of a typical rural American family, whose lives are about to change–though …
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“Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas” by Jason Sanford
”Hibakusha” by Tyler Keevil
“In the Harsh Glow of its Incandescent Beauty” by Mercurio D. Rivera
“Human Error” by Jay Lake
”Again and Again and Again” by Rachel Swirsky
”Aquestria” by Stephen Gaskell
Reviewed by Kathleen M. Kemmerer
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“The Space Sphinx” by Edward Rodosek
“The Octagon” by David Conyers
“Cold Pressure” by Rosie Oliver
“The Shadows of Hemera” by Will Styler
Reviewed by Nader Elhefnawy
The October 2009 issue of Jupiter magazine contains four short stories, the first two of them novelette length.
Read More...Mark Clifton (1906-1963) saw published but twenty-odd stories and three novels in his brief career, which lasted but ten years from 1952-1962. With co-author Frank Riley, Clifton wrote They’d Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever Machine), which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of 1955. Controversy still lingers over the book, some calling it …
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Enemy of the Good: A Postscripts Anthology #19
Edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers
“Balfour and Meriwether in The Adventures of the Emperor’s Vengeance” by Daniel Abraham
“Bigger than the Beetles” by Andrew Hook
“The Cacto Skeleton” by David T. Wilbanks
“Enemy of the Good” by Matthew Hughes
“A Life Clichéd” by David N. Drake
“The Red King’s Sleep” by Marly Youmans
“Meeting Mr. Tony” by Tim Lees
“The World Breaks” by Scott Edelman
“The Portrayed Man” by Justin Cartaginese
“The Famous Cave Paintings on Isolus 9” by Chris Beckett
“Famous People” by Ron Savage
“The Warlock and the Man of the Word” by M. K. Hobson
Triangulation: Dark Glass, edited by Pete Butler
“The Milton Feinhoff Problem” by Mark Onspaugh
“Saint Darwin’s Spirituals” by D.K. Thompson
“Imaginal Friend” by Kenneth B. Chicchia
“Monstrous Embrace” by Rachel Swirsky
“Dancing Lessons” by Aaron Polson
“Deadglass” by Lon Prater
“Perchance to Dream” by D.J. Cockburn
“Windows to the Soul” by Gerri Leen
“More Things in Heaven and Earth” by Jason K. Chapman
“On the Path” by Kelly A. Harmon
“Broken Things” by Kathryn Board
“Audition for Evil” by Amy Treadwell
“One Touch to Remember” by David Seigler
“Souls on Display” by Kurt Kirchmeier
“A More Beautiful Monster” by Loretta Sylvestre
“Seeing Is” by Craig Wolf
“Bait” by Robin Aurelian “Songwood” by Marc Laidlaw “City of the Dog” by John Langan “Writers of the Future” by Charles Oberndorf “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance” by Paul Park “The Secret Lives of Fairy Tales” by Steven Popkes “The Long Retreat” by Robert Reed “Nanosferatu” by Dean Whitlock “The Late Night Train” by Kate …
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Read More...“Conqueror’s Isle” aired on March 5, 1949 on one of radio’s classiest, premier shows, Escape (1947-1954). Nelson Bond (November 23, 1908-November 4, 2006), while selling to a number of non-SF/F markets before he sold his first SF story to Astonishing Stories in April of 1937 (“Down the Dimensions”), went on to sell widely and prolifically …
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Ars Memoriae by Beth Bernobich
Old Man Scratch by Rio Youers