Between Princesses And Other Jobs: Tales of Indrajit & Fix by D.J. Butler (Baen, July 4, 2023, 362pp, HC & Kindle) “Sacrifices” (reprint not reviewed) “No Trade for Nice Guys” (reprint not reviewed) “Backup” (reprint not reviewed) “The Path of the Hunter” (reprint not reviewed) “Power and Prestige” (reprint not reviewed) “The Lady in the …
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Read More...Analog, July/August 2023 “The Jangler” by Wil McCarthy “The World in a Ramen Cup” by Jayde Holmes “Didicosm” by Greg Egan “Nebulous Negotiation” by James Dick & Jen Frankel “Playtime” by A.T. Sayre “First Words” by Michael Randle “The Queen of Copies Meets Her Match” by Carrie Vaughn “A Synthetic’s Field Notes on Speed Dating …
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Read More...Flash Fiction Online #119, August 2023 “Let the Field Burn” by M.C. Benner Dixon (nongenre, not reviewed) “Nancy Shreds the Clouds” by Phoenix Alexander “Little Fish, Big Fish” by Jennifer Hudak “Of Tales and Dreams” by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, translated by Aysel K. Basci (nongenre, not reviewed)
Read More...Tor.com, July 2023 “Detonation Boulevard” by Alastair Reynolds “What It Means to Be a Car” by James Patrick Kelly
Read More...Adventures by Morse (1944-45) aired “The City of the Dead” as a 10-part weekly serial beginning on January 8, 1944. While reluctant to present multi-part stories here for obvious reasons (the exception being specific self-contained episodes of the 1930s Tarzan serials), I have chosen to experiment now from time to time with select installments of …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #387, July 27, 2023 “Merciful Even To Scorpions” by Kay Chronister “Between Gasp And Ground, I See” by Julie Reeser
Read More...Nightmare #130, July 2023 “Sell Your Trauma for Salvation” by Isha Karki “Anatomy of a Haunted House” by Avi Burton “First in Fear and Then in Pain” by Adam R. Shannon
Read More...Diabolical Plots #101, July 2023 “Glass Moon Water” by Linda Niehoff “The Dryad and the Carpenter” by Samara Auman
Read More...Lightspeed #158, July 2023 “Six Months After All Life on Titan Died” by J.B. Park “Monsters of the Drunken Shore” by Nic Anstett “Death Is Better” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe “Starpoop” by Sandra McDonald “The Bodhi Tree Asks Only For The Safe Return of Her Beloved“ by Ashok K. Banker “The Real Worlds” by Lauren Bajek …
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Read More...Mysterion, July 2023 “The Cockatrice Den” by Joanna Michal Holt “The Church of the UPC” by Jeff Hewitt Reviewed by Seraph The timeliness of both these stories was impossible to ignore, and neither author shied away from presenting things that, in certain parts of the modern world could easily land them in prison or worse. …
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