“Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel”
“We Never Talk About My Brother”
“The Tale of Junko and Sayuri”
“King Pelles the Sure”
“The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French”
“Spook”
“The Stickball Witch”
“By Moonlight”
“The Unicorn Tapestries”
“Chandail”
Introduction by Charles de Lint
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“Dragon’s Teeth” by Alex Irvine
“Hell of a Fix” by Matthew Hughes
“Inside Time” by Tim Sullivan
“I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said” by Richard Bowes
“Bad Matter” by Alexandra Duncan
“Farewell Atlantis” by Terry Bisson
“Illusions of Tranquility” by Brendan DuBois
“The Blight Family Singers” by Kit Reed
“The Economy of Vacuum” by Sarah Thomas
“Iris” by Nancy Springer
“The Man Who Did Something About It” by Harvey Jacobs
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The late 2001 SFWA Author Emeritus Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) saw “Watchbird” first published in the February, 1953 issue of Galaxy magazine. This radio adaptation comes from the short-lived (January 1-April 9, 1953) SF radio show Tales of Tomorrow, and aired on January 1, 1953 as the show’s first episode. “Watchbird” has been adapted three times …
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“Fugue in C Minor” is an eerie episode from one of the most revered and longest-running Old Time Radio shows of them all, Suspense (1942-1962). It aired on June 1, 1944 and stars Ida Lupino (1914-1995) and Vincent Price (1911-1993) in a chilling tale involving a very strange old house, a pipe organ…and murder.
While America gathered around its radios in the summer of 1944, anxiously awaiting news about how our boys were doing overseas via nightly news broadcasts, SF fans were reading stories in the pulp magazines such as Clifford D. Simak’s pair of stories (“City” and “Huddling Place,” Astounding Science Fiction, May and July, respectively) that would later join several others to form his award-winning novel City. Sandwiched between this pair, and also from ASF, was Frederic Brown’s undeniably classic short story “Arena” (ASF, June).
But while America listened to Vincent Price chill them to the bone in “Fugue in C Minor,” little did it know that a mere five days later would come the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. D-Day was less than a week away.
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Tangent Online Presents:
An Interview with Lester & Judy-Lynn del Rey
(founders Del Rey Books)
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“de profundis” by Al Robertson “None Had Sharp Teeth” by Will McIntosh “The Likeness” by Lawrence Conquest “Served Cold” by Gary Couzens “Off with the Furies” by Daniel Kaysen “Red Ribbons” by Stephanie Burgis Reviewed by Jeff Spock I really like Black Static from TTA Press for the same reason that I really like Interzone …
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Read More...Dark Fantasy (1941-1942) was rather short-lived and originated out of the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma radio station WKY on Friday nights. “The Man Who Came Back” aired on Dark Fantasy as its first episode on November 14, 1941. Scripts were written by Scott Bishop and covered science fiction, horror, and mystery. This episode is more in …
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“The Far Shore” by Elizabeth Hand
“Bandits of the Trace” by Albert E. Cowdrey
“The Way They Wove the Spells in Sippulgar” by Robert Silverberg
“Logicist” by Carol Emshwiller
“Blocked” by Geoff Ryman
“Halloween Town” by Lucius Shepard
“Mermaid” by Robert Reed
“Never Blood Enough” by Joe Haldeman
“I Waltzed with a Zombie” by Ron Goulart
“The President’s Book Tour” by M. Rickert
“Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot – LXXI” by Ron Partridge
“Another Life” by Charles Oberndorf
“Shadows on the Wall of the Cave” by Kate Wilhelm
Read More...“The Lonely Sleep” first aired on September 25, 1949 on Inner Sanctum, one of Old Time Radio’s most fondly remembered spooky delights. This horror anthology show ran from 1941-1952, and while the scripts and acting were deadly serious, the host always lent a bit of campy levity to the show with horrible puns (much as …
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The Best of Michael Moorcock
Ed. by John Davey
with
Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
Reviewed by Karen L. Newman
Think of science fiction and Great Britain and you might think of Doctor Who. True, that’s been recently on television. However, for literature you should think of Michael Moorcock. For those unfamiliar with this titan of science fiction and fantasy, The Best of Michael Moorcock is a fantastic introduction.
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