Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

“The Sanguine” by Jim Grimsley

Posted byDave Truesdale
While reading through Jim Grimsley’s “The Sanguine,” (from Asimov’s, March 2007) I found myself not satisfyingly convinced of the raison d’etre given for the story’s central conceit, and this nagging frustration at the weakness of its central premise has led me finally to conclude that it desperately needed a stronger explanation for the manner in which the sfnal “gadget” was used, in order for it to be the total success I was hoping the story would be.
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Text: UR – The New Book of Masks, edited by Forrest Aguirre

Posted byDaniel Ausema

“Faure, Envenomed, Dictates” by Nadia Gregor
“Monkey Shines” by Eric Schaller
Image“The Avatar of Background Noise” by Toiya Kristen Finley
“Parchment and Twigs” by Christine Boyka Kluge
“Bluecoat Jack” by Sarah Totton
“The Lindberg Baby” by Terese Svoboda
“Strangers on a Train” by Tamar Yellin
“Bitter Almonds and Absinthe” by Joe Murphy
“No Mooing in the Moonlight” by Christine Boyka Kluge
“The Theater Spectacular” by Catherine Kasper
“Last Transmission or Man with a Robotic Ermine” by Joshua Cohen
“Peace Rituals” by Darren Speegle
“Incipit” by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
“Six Questions for an Alien” by Lance Olsen
“A Play for a Boy and Sock Puppets” by E. Sedia
“Documenting My Abduction” by Christine Boyka Kluge
“The Fifth Tale: When the Devil Met Baldrick Beckenbauer” by Tom Miller
“The Scouring” by Rikki Ducornet
“Fugue-State” by Brian Evenson

“Most Excellent and Lamentable” by Jason Erik Lundberg
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Talebones Issue #34, Winter 2006

Posted byCarole Ann Moleti
Image“His Master’s Voice” by John Rigney
“Crows” by Carrie Vaughn
“Gepetto Kiln” by Alan DeNiro
“But Who Shall Lead The Dance?” by Marie Brennan
“Memories of Moments, Bright As Falling Stars” by Cat Rambo
“Eaglebane” by Ryan Myers
“Fermi Packet” Jason Stoddard
“And Her Hand, the Stars” by E. Catherine Tobler
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Masters of Science Fiction

Posted byNader Elhefnawy
Science fiction critics often lament that genre film and television tend to lag behind its print production in freshness and sophistication, and frequently point to film and television’s neglect of the rich body of novels and short stories the genre has generated over the last half century or so as a part of the problem.  Brian Aldiss in Trillion Year Spree offered an off-the-cuff list of classic science fiction novels that should have had their crack at becoming classic films (but never did), and that list has dated very little in the years since.  More recently Orson Scott Card in his celebration of the demise of Star Trek: Enterprise compared Star Trek very unfavorably with the print science fiction being written when it first appeared in the 1960s-and suggests it might never have become such a phenomenon if television audiences had then been in a position to make the same comparison themselves.
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