Dodgy fridgy.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about Aunt Parnetta’s Electric Blisters – Diane Glancy
Alien bad tv.
2 out of 5
The Other Side.
2 out of 5
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sidorova_08_10/
State of ruin.
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/08/short-story-four-is-me-with-squeeeeee-and-loler-by-nick-mamatas/
Continue reading about Four Is Me! With Squeeeeee! And LOLer! – Nick Mamatas
Nothing of interest here except the Sanford – apart from the fact that the last is styled as a puzzle, so may be a bit of fun.
Apex Magazine 14 : Apex Magazine 14 – Jason Sizemore
Apex Magazine 14 : Artifact – Peter Atwood
Apex Magazine 14 : Shrödinger’s Pussy – Terra LeMay
Apex Magazine 14 : Here [...]
Love problem.
2 out of 5
http://apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/07/short-story-shrodingers-pussy-by-terra-lemay/
A very mixed bag with one very good story by Jeff Carlson.
Apex Magazine 13 : Laika’s Dream – Holly Hight
Apex Magazine 13 : Sol Asleep – Naomi Libicki
Apex Magazine 13 : Long Eyes – Jeff Carlson
Apex Magazine 13 : The Thing in the Refrigerator That Could Stop Time – Matthew Kressel
Dead energy test.
2.5 out of [...]
Lightbulb off.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Glare and the Glow – Steve Rasnic Tem
Robot replacement.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/8/3/32837/32837-h/32837-h.htm
Continue reading about Check and Checkmate – Walter M. Miller
Rykes plan.
2 out of 5
http://freesf.blogspot.com/2010/06/manners-of-age-h-b-fyfe.html
Off Earth or on.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/3/1/22319/22319-h/22319-h.htm
Continue reading about Mezzerow Loves Company – Floyd L. Wallace
Back Ogrum time, dinosaurs, etc.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/6/32563/32563-h/32563-h.htm
Continue reading about The Lost Warship – Robert Moore Williams
Cluster Queen fix, Brad.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/6/5/32657/32657-h/32657-h.htm
Martian Raster fightback.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/6/1/32618/32618-h/32618-h.htm
Roboroping.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/9/32592/32592-h/32592-h.htm
And their terrible science.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/5/9/32590/32590-h/32590-h.htm
No superior trip.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32551/32551-h/32551-h.htm
Mirror problem.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Keeper of the Rothenstein Tomb – Iain Sinclair
Destruction war.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/4/1/32416/32416-h/32416-h.htm
Project Superman problems.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/4/0/32403/32403-h/32403-h.htm
Ugg! After the women!
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/3/9/32396/32396-h/32396-h.htm
Continue reading about Oogie Finds Love – Berkeley Livingston
Rash and Reject, lunger.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/2/3/32230/32230-h/32230-h.htm
Not too bad a planetary neighbourhood.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/2/6/32266/32266-h/32266-h.htm
Complete superego.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/2/4/32243/32243-h/32243-h.htm
Dodgy posting clothing.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/32181
Martian Freedom drunken rant.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Corkscrew of Space – Poul Anderson
Dworn vs red spider.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/2/0/6/32068/32068-h/32068-h.htm
Continue reading about World of the Drone – Robert Abernathy
Crinked.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about Again And Again And Again – Rachel Swirsky
Viper Murderworld.
2 out of 5
http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/unxmen448/18.jpg
http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/unxmen448/page18.html
Faeries and dragons and kids.
2 out of 5
http://i.newsarama.com/images/18_SFV2-01_CMYKcrop2.jpg
http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=1755&page=17
I’m a radio-tonguing imaginary companion.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/stream/Worlds_Of_Tomorrow_Volume_1_Number_3_/Worlds_Of_Tomorrow_Volume_1_Number_3__djvu.txt
With sketchy evidence and sound effects.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Amazing_Science_Fiction_Stories_Volume_32_Number_8_
Continue reading about I Did Too See A Flying Saucer – Frank Bryning
Over acting.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/6/4/31648/31648-h/31648-h.htm
Low rent hitmen for Lucifer.
2 out of 5
” “Well, now, that’s interesting,” Orphan said. “Even the Shadeweavers, it would appear, are entirely in the dark. And you, First Guide? You have no insight into this mystery?””
2 out of 5
http://seawasp.livejournal.com/169564.html#cutid1
Capitalised advice.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/5/4/31547/31547-h/31547-h.htm
Need some bi-sexual peace.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/5/2/31523/31523-h/31523-h.htm
Continue reading about The Woman-stealers Of Thrayx – Fox B. Holden
Bryce check.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/3/5/31356/31356-h/31356-h.htm
Continue reading about The Man Who Staked the Stars – Katherine MacLean
Five of them, unfortunately.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Secret Lives of Fairy Tales – Steven Popkes
Grow some legs. I’m off to Aphrodite with the loot.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31326/31326-h/31326-h.htm
Seedy ship atmosphere is poison.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31286/31286-h/31286-h.htm
Continue reading about Let ‘em Breathe Space – Lester Del Rey
Just buy the Josmian already.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/3/0/31307/31307-h/31307-h.htm
Substitution of.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about Simple Gifts – Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Dreadful boy.
2 out of 5
Spy medal.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Super_Science_Volume_1_Number_2_
Telepathic Booger, Doc.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_St…
Continue reading about The Madcap Metalloids – W. V. Athanas
Patrol? Plank in space?
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_6_Number_10_
Continue reading about The Space Between – Robert E. Gilbert
Robot want.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_6_Number_10_
Mercury mold.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_St…
One good, one rubbish, and the rest right in the midle, with two fun novellas from Bennett and Graber.
Planet Stories 42 : The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears – Keith Bennett Planet Stories 42 : Forever and the Earth – Ray Bradbury Planet Stories 42 : The First Man on the Moon – Alfred Coppel Planet [...]
Interstellar war Adam and Eve.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_4_Number_9__117
Imaginary finagle factor.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_4_Number_9__117
Swing low, shoot low.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_4_Number_9__117
Call me Joe and bad soup better than body snatched.
2 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_Volume_4_Number_9__117
Galactic book trail.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/8/1/30816/30816-h/30816-h.htm
Continue reading about A World By the Tale – Randall Garrett
Kink in time worm tankette.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/8/2/30828/30828-h/30828-h.htm
Princess, swordsman, not princess, average bloke, married – maybe?
2 out of 5
Martian insect surprise.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about Queen Of the Blue World – Basil Wells
I’ve now read three Roger Elwood anthologies. Verdicts terrible, poor and bad, or 1, 2.5 and 2. That is not what you call a good strike rate.
This one is science fiction stories about young people.
Other Side Of Tomorrow : Come Sing the Moons of Moravenn – Leigh Brackett Other Side Of Tomorrow : [...]
Continue reading about The Other Side Of Tomorrow – Roger Elwood
Countdown faster, please.
Boy, this story is bad. An interesting start degenerates into a ’sidekick convention’ – which, for a long ‘epic’ story is not a really good idea I would have to say. Donna Troy and bitter Robins ok, perhaps, but backup Catwomen, Harley Quinn and Mary Marvel? Err, no.
Maybe if they [...]
Hairy Hedonistic hippie harem heroin hiding.
Yep, that’s about the size of it from that era. Well built naked female on the cover notwithstanding not much living up to that – very short, and sex, violence et.c are in rather short supply here.
Some drugs though.
A lawyer is looking for a missing woman, and [...]
While this might have an occasional nifty turn of phrase, the book for a lot of it reads like a series of unconnected scenes.
That is, the plot has problems, at least until right near the end, anyway.
A hardarsed lawman gets into trouble and becomes embroiled in a plot that sees long lived rulers start to [...]
Voice denial.
2 out of 5
““Does Perry know you’ve called me?”
Lester swallowed. “No,” he said. “I don’t talk to Perry much these days.”
Kettlewell sighed. “What the hell am I going to do with you two?””
2 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view;=blog&id;=58282
A collection of short shorts about Halloween night.
Tricks and Treats : Tricks – Steven Rasnick TemTricks and Treats : The Invisible Boy – Steven Rasnick TemTricks and Treats : Painted Faces – Steven Rasnick TemTricks and Treats : Sack Lunch – Steven Rasnick TemTricks and Treats : Sweet and Sour – Steven Rasnick TemTricks and [...]
Continue reading about Tricks and Treats On Halloween Night – Steve Rasnic Tem
Crying.
2 out of 5
Knight worm interloper.
2 out of 5
http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/sho…
Continue reading about The Kingdom Of the Worm – Clark Ashton Smith
Private problems.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Life Of the Stripe – Piers Anthony
Space Dreads.
2 out of 5
Vard nuts.
2 out of 5
Boring shelf.
2 out of 5
A pointy eared other universe magic girl.
2 out of 5
Your old fashioned pommie murder, add one Belgie.
An English gent type gets bumped off – and the possibilities for who did the bumping are reasonably extensive, as Poirot discovers thanks to the local grapevine.
That being said, I found this particular mystery rather dull, with plenty of other Christie books being of more interest.
2 out of [...]
Continue reading about The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
A trio of tales of a planet of small furry aliens that are highly prone to going the whole hog for a craze.
Hokas Pokas : Full Pack – Poul Anderson and Gordon R. DicksonHokas Pokas : The Napoleon Crime – Poul Anderson and Gordon R. DicksonHokas Pokas : Star Prince Charlie – Poul Anderson and [...]
Continue reading about Hokas Pokas – Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
24. Not without some connection, matey-jim.
2 out of 5
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&task;=download&id;=58333&file;=books/ybf9/YBF9-1.pdf
Matter transmissions a croc-Man!
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30452/30452-h/30452-h.htm#Monsters_of_Mars
“Spies, like fairies and other such elusive sprites, traditionally come in rings.”
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/4/9/30497/30497-h/30497-h.htm
Continue reading about The Foreign Hand Tie – Randall Garrett
Waiting for a war.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/4/7/30474/30474-h/30474-h.htm
It’s not easy being green. Especially if an alien bug made you do it.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/9/4/31948/31948-h/31948-h.htm
Continue reading about Thompson’s Cat – Robert Moore Williams
Stop a bit of galactic domination.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/9/3/31937/31937-h/31937-h.htm
Not Natty catty.
2 out of 5
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20090928/safe-f.shtml
Continue reading about A Safe Place To Be – Carol Emshwiller
Show Them.
2 out of 5
Elvis Road Dog.
2 out of 5
The second ‘fiction issue’ isn’t as good as the first, 2.93 as compared to 3.17. The website does have other material, interviews, reviews, faux articles etc.
Innsmouth Free Press 2 : Innsmouth Free Press 2 – Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. StilesInnsmouth Free Press 2 : Prayer at Dark River – Mary Robinette KowalInnsmouth Free [...]
Continue reading about Innsmouth Free Press 2 – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hawk Carse’s Iapetan pirate revenge.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/3/0/30307/30307-h/30307-h.htm
No movement.
2 out of 5
http://www.darkermatter.com/issue5/young_love.php
Continue reading about Young Love On The Drowned Side Of The City – Will McIntosh
Spindly lethal injection.
2 out of 5
http://www.cabinet-des-fees.com/issue1/maiden-tree.html
Continue reading about The Maiden-Tree – Catherynne M. Valente
Very whittled pole.
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28646/28646-h/28646-h.htm
A collection of stories basically about animals. It also includes a lot of poetry. A limited theme such as this from one author isn’t likely to be too flash, unless they have produced hundreds of stories, perhaps and indeed, it is not, only around the 3 mark. A lot of short and [...]
Continue reading about Bufffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences – Ursula K. Le Guin
The bad news is brief.
There is a reason people don’t talk about this one much I think. That reason being it is bad.
The earth is going to enter a nasty phenomenon, no-one believes Challenger when he warns them.
So, he and his mates are prepared, no-one else is.
However, rather than dying, everyone gets better, and nothing [...]
Continue reading about The Poison Belt 6 – Arthur Conan Doyle
The bad news is brief.
There is a reason people don’t talk about this one much I think. That reason being it is bad.
The earth is going to enter a nasty phenomenon, no-one believes Challenger when he warns them.
So, he and his mates are prepared, no-one else is.
However, rather than dying, everyone gets better, and nothing [...]
Continue reading about The Poison Belt 5 – Arthur Conan Doyle
The bad news is brief.
There is a reason people don’t talk about this one much I think. That reason being it is bad.
The earth is going to enter a nasty phenomenon, no-one believes Challenger when he warns them.
So, he and his mates are prepared, no-one else is.
However, rather than dying, everyone gets better, and nothing [...]
Continue reading about The Poison Belt 4 – Arthur Conan Doyle
The bad news is brief.
There is a reason people don’t talk about this one much I think. That reason being it is bad.
The earth is going to enter a nasty phenomenon, no-one believes Challenger when he warns them.
So, he and his mates are prepared, no-one else is.
However, rather than dying, everyone gets better, and nothing [...]
Continue reading about The Poison Belt 2 – Arthur Conan Doyle
The bad news is brief.
There is a reason people don’t talk about this one much I think. That reason being it is bad.
The earth is going to enter a nasty phenomenon, no-one believes Challenger when he warns them.
So, he and his mates are prepared, no-one else is.
However, rather than dying, everyone gets better, and nothing [...]
Continue reading about The Poison Belt 1 – Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing of much interest here, not even getting to 3 with the highest a 3.5. Apart from a blurry rollerball photo that is, and other assorted whacky snaps. There’s also a collage! and a few poems.
Flurb 8 : Flurb 8 – Rudy RuckerFlurb 8 : My Only Sunshine – Emily C. SkaftunFlurb [...]
Imagine a roundabout bar that doesn’t matter now.
2 out of 5
http://www.flurb.net/8/8byrne.htm
Continue reading about There Is No Comte De St. Germain For I Am He – Brendan Byrne
Captain Future is in trouble in two arenas in this adventure:
In the polyp labyrinths of the seas of Neptune, and also with the not so goodniks of Planet Town on Stygia.
Then there’s Brains going missing on a film maker.
Very, very silly this one. Not one of the better examples.
2 out of 5
Katatonics.
2 out of 5
Ganymede slime in space, now these guys at home?
2 out of 5
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/9/9/6/29966/29966-h/29966-h.htm
Very thin.
2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Last Word – Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont