The history of The Shadow character is long and storied. A bare bones synopsis begins on July 3, 1930 when the narrator of magazine publisher Street & Smith’s radio version of its pulp magazine, Detective Story Magazine, was given the name of The Shadow. This mysterious voice who merely introduced and narrated the radio show, …
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Tangent Online Presents:
An Interview with Donald A. Wollheim
(founder DAW Books)
The Alternate History sub-genre of science fiction, though scattered examples have dotted the field’s landscape for quite some time (some spectacularly), has blossomed in recent decades and is now one of the most popular and commercially successful in the science fiction field. So popular has it become, in fact, and with so many devoted followers, …
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“Blue Joe” by Stephanie Burgis
“The Carnivale of Abandoned Tales” by Caitlyn Paxson
“A Painter, a Sheep and a Boa Constrictor” by Nir Yaniv
“One for Sorrow” by Shweta Narayan
“The Bride Price” by Richard S. Crawford
“Jaguar Woman” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“Firefly Igloo” by Caroline M. Yoachim
“The Fox and the King’s Beard” by Jessica Paige Wick
“River Water” by Becca De La Rosa
“What to Do with the Dead” by Claude Lalumiere
“The Spoils of Springfield” by Alex Wilson
“Counting Down to the End of the Universe” by Sara Genge
Read More...“Twinkle, Twinkle” by Colin Henchley “Fragile Fathers, Shattered Sons” by Kurt Kirchmeier “Grass Can Be Weeds Too” by Craig Saunders “The Entire City” by Mike O’Driscoll “Rotgut” by D.T. Neal “Homeward Journey” by Frank W. Haubold, translated by Wilf James Reviewed by Steve Fahnestalk From Dublin, Ireland, comes a nice magazine called Albedo One (or …
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The New Space Opera 2
(ed. by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan)
“Utriusque Cosmi” by Robert Charles Wilson
“The Island” by Peter Watts
“Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance” by John Kessel
“To Go Boldly” by Cory Doctorow
“The Lost Princess Man” by John Barnes
“Defect” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves” by Jay Lake
“Shell Game” by Neal Asher
“Punctuality” by Garth Nix
“Inevitable” by Sean Williams
“Join the Navy and See the Worlds” by Bruce Sterling
“Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings” by Bill Willingham
“From the Heart” by John Meaney
“Chameleons” by Elizabeth Moon
“The Tenth Muse” by Tad Williams
“Cracklegrackle” by Justina Robson
“The Tale of the Wicked” by John Scalzi
“Catastrophe Baker and the Canticle for Leibowitz” by Mike Resnick
“The Far End of History” by John C. Wright
Read More...Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was born November 26, 1919. Over his seventy-two year professional career (he saw his first work, a poem, published in the October, 1937 issue of Amazing Stories under the name of Elton Andrews), he has been an agent (for nearly half the existing early SF writers in the 1940’s and 50’s …
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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow
Tachyon Publications
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“Fire Creek” by John M. Whalen
“Professor Malakoff’s Amazing Ethereal Telegraph” by Lou Antonelli
“Bad Justice at Yellowstone” by Norman Riger
“The Great Genome Robbery” by Trent Roman
“Message in the Dust” by S.A. Bolich
“Plague 8 From Inner Space” by Sam Kepfield
“A Fistful of Bad Guys and an Ugly” by David M. Fitzpatrick
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“Pathetic Fallacy” hit the airwaves on February 2, 1948 as one of the episodes of Quiet, Please. The show ran for two years (1947-1949) and was, according to some accounts, the best overall horror/science fiction radio series. It was written by Willis Cooper (1899-1955, grainy photo at right), the man who created another of old …
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