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SSW: WORLDS OF IF: A RETROSPECTIVE ANTHOLOGY and GALAXY: THIRTY YEARS OF...
A Wednesday's Short Stories combo redux post, inspired in part by Rich Horton's recent review of an issue of If from 1957; for more of today's posts, please see Patti Abbott's blog:FFB: WORLDS OF IF:...
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Short Story Wednesday: James Baldwin: "The Rockpile"; Mildred Clingerman:...
Four stories, from several volumes/other sources I've been meaning to deal with more completely for some time."The Rockpile" by James Baldwin; first published in Going to Meet the Man (Dial Press...
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Short Story Wednesdays: the links to the reviews: 15 March 2023
Frank Babics: The Hugo Winners (eventually retitled, Volume 1), annotated and introduced by Isaac AsimovJoachim Boaz: Far Out by Damon KnightBrian Busby: The Marathon Murder by James MoffattJose...
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Short Story Wednesday: 1989 horror/fantasy anthologies: TALES BY MOONLIGHT II...
The following reviews reprinted, with minimal editing, from a longer column of mine in the third, January 1990, issue of the magazine (in*sit), edited and published by Mark Hand, Nancy Ryan, Donna...
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SSW: "Funerals" by Robert Bausch, PHOEBE, Summer 1973
Death is always with us, and sometimes it feels as if it's way too much with us. Got word this morning of the death of poet and novelist D. M. Thomas, not a young man, born in 1935, two years before my...
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SSW: Best Detective Stories of the Year: 14th Annual Collection ed. David C....
courtesy the FictionMags Index:Best Detective Stories of the Year: 14th Annual Collection ed. David C. Cooke (Dutton, 1959, LC:46-5872, $2.95, 255pp, hc) Also available in the U.K. (Boardman 1960 as...
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"Love is in the Ether" by Laurence Dumortier, ONE STORY, 30 March 2007,...
from the FictionMags Index:Bullet [#1, 2004] ed. Keith Jeffrey (Digitalent Ltd., £2.50, 18pp, 4″ x 8″) []1 · Take Over · Milky Wilberforce · vi3 · Redemption Vodka · Ross Bradley · vi5 · Night Moves ·...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some concerts and such, mostly rock, some jazz-pop
Some better recorded than others...Aretha Franklin on the Steve Allen Show for Westinghouse stations and national syndication by them (the series that most influenced David Letterman's '80s chat show...
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Short Story Wednesday: BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR: 23rd Annual...
Best Detective Stories of the Year: 23rd Annual Collection edited by Anthony Boucher (William White) (Dutton, 1968, 253pp, hardcover)9 · Introduction · Anthony Boucher · in 196813 · By Child Undone ·...
View ArticleFrom the TV GUIDE blog for MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION: on "Jerry Was a Man"
TV GUIDE used to have, in its website, blogs for various television series, and, as a staffer, I wrote the entries for a number of those blogs, beginning with the ABC-TV series Masters of Science...
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MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION episode 4: adapting "The Discarded" by Harlan...
Continuing from yesterday, some of the text entries from now-vanished tv series blogs on the TV Guide website, this one the fourth in a series I wrote in 2007 about the ABC-TV airing of the...
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NUMB3RS: Season 4, 401"Trust Metric" and 402 "Hollywood Homicide" from the TV...
Further rescues from my "drafts" file of copy for my TV GUIDE blogs, formerly linked at the bottom of my links list (the current TV GUIDE website instead redirects to barebones information on the...
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Short Story Wednesday, Guest Post: Paul Di Filippo: THRILLING WONDER STORIES,...
[TM notes: Paul posted this review in FictionMags, and it's reprinted with his permission. It should be noted that this was Sam Merwin's first issue of the magazine, after it had been edited by perhaps...
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Short Story Wednesday: Wilma Shore: WW2 stories in McCALL'S: "You Can't Tell...
Wilma Shore as a writer has been of continuing interest to me, and the recent citations in the FictionMags Index which included links to the full texts of McCall's magazine, in the Internet Archive,...
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SSW: EPOCH, Fall 1955 ed. Ronald Sukenick among many; ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY...
I mentioned in an FFB post a few weeks [or a decade+] back*** that I'd recently purchased a short stack of Epoch, the Cornell-based literary magazine that in its first, Fall 1947 issue featured a short...
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Short Story Wednesday: "The Altruist" by Charles Portis, TRUMPET #1, February...
Library of America, to hype their new omnibus of Portis novels, a few short stories and other writing, are offering an online event live today, 17 May 2023, at 6-7pm ET, to which they've invited Roy...
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Short Story Wednesday: VAMPIRES, ZOMBIES, WEREWOLVES AND GHOSTS: 25 CLASSIC...
Or, How Things Can Go Very Wrong for a reasonably good anthology. Consider the timing, for a book edited by two feminist literature professors, who dedicate this book to their daughters, with the...
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Short Story Wednesday: Three Items (Arguably) in Three Books and a Magazine:...
As almost always, but with more purpose than usual, I am sifting through the chaotic collection of reading material in the house, of late to help create a new office for my cohabitant's private...
View ArticleSISTERS, among striking TV Notes, during WGA's attempt for decent treatment...
With the wrapping up of Barry on HBO, those looking for more work from Sarah Goldberg could do worse that turn to SisterS, a co-production of Irish broadcast network RTE, US-based cable station IFC...
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Short Story Wednesday: stories by Robert Bloch, Alice Sheldon ("James...
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v53 #4, No. 317, October 1977] ($1.00, 164pp, digest, cover by Chesley Bonestell). Edward L. Ferman, editor6 • Prismatica • Samuel R. Delany · nv34 • Books...
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