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Articles tagged with fiction

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The Man Who Downloaded The Internet

Idea Suggested by Vincent Summers in his article here. This is just a start to a possible story. Story Starts Vince screwed the last cover into place and stretched out his hand to flick the main switch. He turned off the torch on his head and stood in s

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on April 9, 2020, 6:17 PM by MegL.

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Review Science Fiction short Story: "Dead Giveaway" by Randall Garrett

Dave Turnbull has just returned to Earth from a year exploring Lobon. Back at his apartment, he receives a couple pieces of mail from his friend and mentor, Scholar Duckworth, that give him pause. The first, postmarked 21 August 2187, says that he believes

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 1, 2018, 2:52 PM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story : "Martians Never Die" by Lucius Daniel

  This is a creepy little story, only that plays on greed and hatred. It is perhaps almost too subtle in some respects, but the ending is sad in more than one way. And there is a faint streak of misogyny. Beryl needs someone to take care of her. She

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on April 21, 2018, 3:32 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: “The One and the Many" by Stephen Marlowe

“There are some who tell me it is a foolish war we fight,” this story begins.  One of those who believes the war is foolish is the narrator’s brother.  But the brother is lame and good for nothing but drawing.  He draws pic

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on November 17, 2015, 9:08 AM by msiduri.

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Horror Short Story Review: “The Diary of Philip Westerly” by Paul Compton

According to his nephew, Philip Westerly disappeared and left nothing but a smashed mirror.  His nephew has heard a lot of wild stories about what might have happened, but none of them are as wild as Westerly’s diary.  He mentions that his

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on November 16, 2015, 2:22 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Delegate from Venus" by Henry Slesar

When the reader first meets reporter Jerry Bridges he’s getting chewed out by his boss for getting a senator’s secretary drunk in an attempt to pump her for information. Bridges just knows something’s going on with all the couriers runnin

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on November 15, 2015, 9:20 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Shepherd of the Planets" by Alan Mattox

The fuel pack on Captain Renner’s ship gave out. They’ll have enough power for some functions, but without a replacement, they’ll never fly to the stars again.  It was supposed to last a life time.  It has just enough juice to l

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on November 10, 2015, 9:16 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: “Old Rambling House” by Frank Herbert

Ted and Martha Graham are pretty sure they’re about to land a deal that’s too good to be true. A foreign-sounding couple wants to swap their old rambling house out in the boonies for their trailer. With the baby on the way, the Grahams are look

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on November 8, 2015, 8:42 AM by msiduri.

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Review: Murdoch Mysteries

Binge watching a television series that revolves around the crime solving adventures of a Canadian-type #SherlockHolmes , “Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto Constabulary”. Love it when he says that! It's how he introduces himself to othe

Posted in Movies & TV on October 29, 2015, 1:58 PM by cmoneyspinner.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Jameson Satellite" by Neil R. Jones

In this novelette originally published in 1931, Professor Jameson knows his time is at hand but yearns for some sort of immortality.  He eventually decides that no means on earth will preserve his body the way he wants and takes the next logical step

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on October 21, 2015, 10:17 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Tight Squeeze" by Dean C. Ing

This is good old-fashion space yarn opens with a conscientious (and just a bit nervous) safety engineer, Major Edward MacNamara, going through a thorough, piece by piece, system by system preflight inspection of the spaceship “Valier.”  Ma

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on October 14, 2015, 2:18 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story: "The Velvet Glove" by Harry Harrison

When the reader first meets Jon Venex, he is seen opening a hotel room door.  He’s paid extra for a large room—the largest in the hotel, fully three feet wide by five feet long.  Even if weren’t this big, he doesn’t dare c

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on October 7, 2015, 10:21 AM by msiduri.

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Also Watched Dark Matter

It has been a while since there's been a Science Fiction show on television I could get interested int but Season 1 of DARK MATTER is now on Netflix and I've watched the first two episodes. We'll have to see how it goes, but I may become a fan.   I

Posted in Movies & TV on October 6, 2015, 8:22 PM by DWDavisRSL.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Goodbye, Dead Man!" by Tom W. Harris

Orley Mattup is a guard at a reactor in Bayless, Kentucky.  He and a friend of the narrator, Danny Hern, play a back country card game called high-low-jack.  Mattup starts losing, despite all good luck rituals he performs.  He’s a sore

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on September 28, 2015, 10:32 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Keep Out!" by Fredric Brown

They were the first Martians, born on Earth, but bred and raised for Mars. Thanks to the drug daptine, given to their carefully selected parents before they were conceived, they could adapt to the cold and the thin atmosphere of Mars in ways Earthlings nev

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on September 25, 2015, 10:56 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Monster" by Randall Garrett

 When we first meet Fred Trent, newspaperman, he’s busy trying to talk Joan Drake into not forgetting their date that night.  She’s out walking Brutus, Dr. Fenwick’s Great Dane.  Or maybe Brutus is walking her.  Trent

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on September 1, 2015, 10:51 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Hawk Carse" by Anthony Gilmore

This is a hero/adventure tale set in the 22nd century chockfull of blood feuds and revenge. Adventurer “Hawk” Carse flies the fastest spaceship in space and is the quickest draw on his ray-gun. He pioneered Iapetus (a satellite of Saturn), esta

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on August 26, 2015, 9:03 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Service with a Smile" by Charles L. Fortenay

Alice, Thera, Betsy and Marguerite survived the crash of their spaceship on this little planet.  An atmospheric trap drew the ship down and a magnetic layer prevents a radio message from getting out.  The women are trapped. Herbert, the robot se

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on August 20, 2015, 8:28 PM by msiduri.

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science fiction short story review: "Tree, Spare that Woodman" by David Dryfoos

Ted Heckscher found his elderly neighbor Cappy dead.  From all appearances, he seems to have died in his sleep, except that the tree-things now forming a ring around his cabin here on the alien planet of Mazda.  The tree-things have blue trunk an

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on August 11, 2015, 9:56 AM by msiduri.

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science fiction short story review: "The Eye of Allah" by Charles W. Diffin

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on July 28, 2015, 9:11 AM by msiduri.

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The Certificate

FICTION Four Generations "I wish I had achieved something", the low voice came from the bed. "What do you mean Grandpop?", little Eddie said, wriggling on the seat between his mother and his grandfather, looking at his great grandfather lying in th

Posted in Writing on July 23, 2015, 10:34 AM by MegL.

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The Phone Call

Story prompted by a real incident I was walking through the village when an odd engine noise alerted me to a lorry moving slowly and weaving on the road. I realised the driver was texting and not paying attention to his driving, so got the compa

Posted in Writing on July 15, 2015, 2:08 AM by MegL.

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How Easy We American Women Have It Today

As I read my way through another free Kindle book, I’m reminded once again of how easy it is to live now, as compared to 150 years ago. The book I’m reading is An Untamed Land (Red River of the North #1) by Lauraine Snelling.  It is a his

Posted in Books on July 1, 2015, 11:49 PM by BarbRad.

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Science Fiction Short Story: "Waste Not, Want" by Dave Dryfoos

Eighty-six-year-old Fred Lubway wakes up with panic. He’s still not over using Tillie. He’s still not over the new place. Not that he needed a new place—this house full of gadgets that Tillie never saw. He was told at Tillie’s funer

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 9, 2015, 8:00 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "They Twinkled Like Jewels" by Philip José Farmer

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 8, 2015, 9:33 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The World Behind the Moon" by Paul Ernst

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 6, 2015, 11:54 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Street that Wasn't There" by Clifford Simal and Carl Jacobi

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 5, 2015, 4:51 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Stoker and the Stars" by Algis Budrys

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 4, 2015, 9:39 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Radiant Shell" by Paul Ernst

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 3, 2015, 10:44 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Power and the Glory" by Charles W. Diffin

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on June 2, 2015, 9:02 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Nothing Equation" by Tom Godwin

Green was the third man to occupy the observation bubble, 10,000 light years beyond the galaxy’s outermost sun.   A project of Earth’s Galactic Observation Bureau, it was positioned there to gather data that could not be made within t

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 30, 2015, 8:49 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Memory of Mars" by Raymond F. Jones

  This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 27, 2015, 6:35 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Man Who Saw the Future" by Edmond Hamilton

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 26, 2015, 5:17 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review "The Hated" by Frederik Pohl

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 24, 2015, 11:27 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review "The Eternal Wall" by Raymond Z. Gallun

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 10, 2015, 10:50 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: “The Day Time Stopped Moving” by Bradner Buckner

All Dave Miller wanted was to commit suicide in peace. He was drunk. His drugstore was going under and he was doing nothing but drinking only more. His refinance scheme involves race horses. Now Helen was leaving him. Well, he would show her! So he picked

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 9, 2015, 9:08 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Moon is Green" by Fritz Leiber

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 7, 2015, 9:37 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Cosmic Express" by Jack Williamson

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 6, 2015, 9:14 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Aliens" by Murray Leinster

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 4, 2015, 10:34 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Vital Ingredient" by Charles V. De Vet

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on May 2, 2015, 6:45 PM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Pandemic" by Jesse F. Bone

Research pathologist Dr. Walter Kramer is hiring another new assistant. It’s not his pipe that’s driving them away. Thurston’s disease has wiped out nearly one billion of the three billion people on the planet. It’s particularly har

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on April 27, 2015, 5:46 PM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Foundling on Venus" by John and Dorothy De Courcy

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on April 19, 2015, 6:36 PM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Missing Link" by Frank Herbert

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Animals on April 11, 2015, 5:19 PM by msiduri.

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Short Story Review: "La Pulchra Nota" by Molly McNett

The 14th century world of the narrator, music instructor John Fuller, is ordered by god. The good things, the perfect things such as the beautiful song of the bird he heard as child can come only from god. The bad things also come from god, for purposes hu

Posted in Reviews on April 9, 2015, 8:50 AM by msiduri.

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The Care and Proper Feeding of One's Websites

I've been running personal and commercial websites for just about 20 years now - I started my first sites back in 1995 when I was in graduate school, just some silly fan pages for my favorite TV shows and for #fanfiction, that sort of thing. I cut my teeth

Posted in Technology on April 7, 2015, 7:43 AM by sockii.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "McIlvaine's Star" by August Derleth

This is one of author August Derleth’s stories involving newspaperman Tex Harrigan. In this, Tex is relating an odd story about an old man he came across, Thaddeus McIlvaine, one of the “lost people or strayed, crackpots or warped geniuses.&rdq

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 29, 2015, 12:01 PM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Lease to Doomsday" by Lee Archer

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 27, 2015, 5:20 PM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "The Indulgence of Negu Mah" by Robert Andrew Arthur

  This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 26, 2015, 11:47 AM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Hex" by Laurence Mark Janifer

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 24, 2015, 10:34 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review – Brian Aldiss – No Gimmick

Spoiler alerts. The Friday Project.   Another 1950’s classic from Aldiss, this time with a dark totalitarian theme.   A science fiction author has been arrested and imprisoned in a cell by agents of a near-future fascistic government. H

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 22, 2015, 12:00 PM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review - Brian Aldiss – Judas Danced

The Friday Project – spoiler alerts   Another 1950’s classic from Aldiss, with a unique spin on posthumous pardons for executed murderers. The hero is about to be executed a second time for the second time he has murdered the same man.

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 21, 2015, 4:38 AM by arthurchappell.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Four Miles Within" by Anthony Gilmore

Professor David Guinness, along with his daughter Sue and engineer Phil Holmes is about to descend in a digging sphere to a radium deposit about four miles beneath the earth surface outside Palmdale, California. It’ll probably get warm on the way dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 18, 2015, 11:35 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fictions Short Story Review: "The Guardians" by Irving Cox, Jr.

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 17, 2015, 12:00 AM by msiduri.

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Review Science Fiction: "Divinity" by Joseph Samachson

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 15, 2015, 12:02 PM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Dead World" by Jack Douglas

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 14, 2015, 8:48 AM by msiduri.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Dead Ringer" by Lester del Rey

Journalist Dane Phillips is not so sure about his fellow man—some of them anyway—because they don’t seem to be staying dead even after they’re buried. His editor doesn’t believe him. No one seems to believe him. Eventually he

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 12, 2015, 8:22 AM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Cully" by Jack Egan

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 10, 2015, 9:06 AM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Blind Spot" by Bascom Jones, Jr.

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 9, 2015, 8:55 AM by msiduri.

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Review: Science Fiction short story: "Beyond Lies the Wub" by Philip K. Dick

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 8, 2015, 6:59 PM by msiduri.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review Brian Aldiss The Shubshub Race

Spoiler alerts – 1957   A brilliant science fiction fable in the style of a Hans Christian Anderson fantasy fairy story but with scientific explanations for its magical happenings.   A king on Earth is very ill, and plans a long recuper

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 7, 2015, 10:26 AM by arthurchappell.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "Earthmen Bearing Gifts" by Fredric Brown

Dhar Ry is anxiously awaiting the earth rocket, due to land 1000 outside the single remaining Martian city. The Martians know this because their telepath teams have been reading the thoughts of the earthmen for centuries. The rocket is expected to allow ea

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on March 4, 2015, 9:23 AM by msiduri.

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Raiding My Cousin's Book Shelf! - BOOKS - Category Challenge

so i went over to my cousin's place  and borrowed his 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' collection. he has all the books and is currently reading through it. apparently, he has this habit of reading one book at a time but the rest of the books should be with him

Posted in Books on February 26, 2015, 11:06 PM by allen0187.

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review: science fiction short story: "Accidental Death" by Peter Bailey

The story opens with howling wind blowing ice crystals. A figure lies in a furrow in the snow, beginning to move. The man comes to grips with the idea that he’s still alive. He knows it will be a while before he’s found—if he is, indeed,

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on February 24, 2015, 9:48 PM by msiduri.

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Review: 'Rose Gold' by Walter Mosley

"Rose Gold" offers the reader not only a complex mystery to be solved by private investigator Easy Rawlins, but also an up-close and personal glimpse into a Los Angeles of nearly fifty years ago. So smooth are the seams between the two that the reader neve

Posted in Books on February 24, 2015, 1:38 PM by Feisty56.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian Aldiss - The Ultimate Millennium

The last of the Millennium quartet also known as Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand.   As the universe itself begins to disintegrate a space voyager running low on oxygen makes a desperate effort to land on a planet hoping to find air there. He dies, but

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on February 24, 2015, 10:46 AM by arthurchappell.

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review: science fiction short story: “A World is Born” by Leigh Brackett

Mel Gray is a “volunteer,” a world-builder on Mercury, toiling for the father and daughter team of the Moultons, who’d organized the destitute and desperate veterans of the Second Interplanetary War. But Mel’s had enough unselfish

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on February 23, 2015, 9:48 PM by msiduri.

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'Sorry Dave' - WRITING Category Challenge

Another short story from yours truly. Been dabbling at writing fiction... at least what passes for one. LOL! Would love to read everyone's comments, rants, and otherwise violent reactions to this piece. ===== 'Sorry Dave. We did what we can. The tumor

Posted in Writing on February 21, 2015, 8:31 PM by allen0187.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian Aldiss – The Dark Millennia

1957 – spoiler alerts   An Earth traveller, eons in the future, meets a mysterious naked man in the woods on Earth. The man, Ishrael, claims to be the stranded admiral of an alien fleet, who has been exiled to Earth by his enemies.   In

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on February 18, 2015, 6:14 PM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian Aldiss – The Sterile Millennia

1957 – Spoiler alerts   A bold look at the aftermath of an Earth war in the far flung future. Race war has exterminated the white Caucasian peoples, leaving black people the only survivors until one man gives birth to a white girl.   Al

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on February 17, 2015, 7:18 AM by arthurchappell.

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Diary – Thursday 12th February 2015

It was a great relief not to have to get up and go to the farcical call centre job which wasn’t paying staff any more. I got a pleasant lie in for the first time in weeks. Later in the day my job brokers sent me details of a new job, with a supermar

Posted in Personal on February 14, 2015, 2:36 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian Aldiss – The New Father Christmas

Spoiler alerts – The Friday Project Press   A rather anti-Christmas story, in its utter bleak vision of a future Yule in a mechanized hostile World ruled by artificial intelligence.   Many SF stories predicted robots as the saving grace

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on February 4, 2015, 4:46 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian W Aldiss – Outside

1955 - Spoiler alerts   Six people have been trapped for many years in a strange house from fear of the World outside, and even wondering if there is a World outside any more.   Life in the house is dull but pleasant, though every move is clo

Posted in Books on January 30, 2015, 5:25 PM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian W Aldiss – Pogsmith

1955 - Spoiler alerts   Aldiss is often darkly serious in his story-telling but he could also let his hair down to write something shamelessly silly, as with Pogsmith.   Here, a bickering married couple win tickets to visit an interplanetary

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 27, 2015, 3:52 PM by arthurchappell.

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Science Fiction Short Story Review: "A Question of Courage" by Jesse Franklin Bone

“I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the Lachesis,” Lt. Thomas Marsden tells the reader as he assumes his new position aboard the scout spaceship. As Executive Officer, he’s pleased

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 27, 2015, 9:15 AM by msiduri.

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Diary – Thursday 22nd January 2015

I had to report to two separate welfare advisors today. Initially the appointments clashed but I was able to move the second mandatory meeting back a few hours.   The first was just to sign on, where they check my job searching activity is on-going.

Posted in Persona Paper on January 23, 2015, 6:53 AM by arthurchappell.

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Science Fiction Novella Review – Brian W Aldiss – Equator

    1958 Various editions – Spoiler alerts   Also released as Vanguard From Alpha   One of the most action packed SF stories, crime drama, spy story, comedy thrillers I have ever read and one screaming out for turning into a

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 22, 2015, 11:42 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Review – Brian W Aldiss – Conviction

1955 – The Friday Project – Spoiler alerts   Poor David Stevens is just an average kind of guy who is suddenly picked randomly to represent Earth before a tribunal of God-like overlords of the Universe. He has been given just months to p

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 20, 2015, 11:16 AM by arthurchappell.

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Science Fiction Review: "The Chronic Argonauts" by H. G. Wells

  This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 17, 2015, 7:32 PM by msiduri.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian W Aldiss – Our Kind Of Knowledge

1955 – Friday Project – Spoiler alerts.   A very weird story from Aldiss, in which a group of monks visiting the North Pole discover a spaceship there. Examining it, they inexplicably end up taking off in it, though barely able to steer

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 16, 2015, 10:05 AM by arthurchappell.

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Review: Science Fiction Short Story: "Zen" by Jerome Bixby

This is another in the series of “It Came from the Pulps!” where I review science fiction short stories that were originally published in the pulp magazines of mid-20th century. Many of these have become available in electronic form as free dow

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 15, 2015, 10:03 AM by msiduri.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian W Aldiss – Not For an Age

1955 – Friday Project Press – Spoiler alerts   A rather scary precursor to Groundhog Day, which wouldn’t be filmed for decades after this Aldiss take on the idea of living a single day over and over.   The hero, Rodney has l

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 14, 2015, 1:33 PM by arthurchappell.

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Science Fiction Limericks

A friend challenged me to come up with science fiction themed clean limericks. The first is self-contained. The second is a two parter in limerick form. Enjoy.   Harry Android dreamt Of Electric Sheep After counting them while trying to sleep Insp

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 12, 2015, 10:44 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Review - Brian W Aldiss – The great Time Hiccup

1955 – Friday Project Press – Spoiler alerts   Some time in the future time itself will stop running smoothly and in its neat linear pattern. It will be a minor hiccup for the cosmos, but for humanity, the consequences of being thrown da

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 12, 2015, 6:48 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian W Aldiss – Breathing Space

1955 – The Friday Project Press – Spoiler Alerts   A short story that Aldiss used to explore themes later developed in more detail in his brilliant novel, Non-Stop (published in 1958)   The premise has a similar Plato’s Cave

Posted in Books on January 11, 2015, 10:23 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Brian W Aldiss – Criminal Record

1955 – Spoiler alerts Another early gem from Aldiss, again involving aliens causing problems for people who go shopping.   This time, the main hero finds what he believes to be a rare collectible music recording on Vinyl, and rushes home with

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 9, 2015, 1:25 PM by arthurchappell.

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Silly Fantasy Story - Thump Thump Thump

  Our experiments on the International Space Station told us that there was extremely little chance of life existing on other worlds beyond our own. Leaving Fraja on the station, Terry and I were returning to Earth in the three seater supply ship wit

Posted in Sci Fi & Paranormal on January 9, 2015, 11:26 AM by arthurchappell.

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Short Science Fiction Story Review – Chris Beckett – Rat Island

2013 Newcon Press – Spoiler alerts   A sad tale of the last days of life as we know it as all our efforts to go green, recycle and save the environment prove to be too little, too late.   A young man reminisces on his childhood, with ph

Posted in Books on January 6, 2015, 7:27 AM by arthurchappell.

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Ravado Towers, a Modern Tale of the English Aristocracy Episode 1 An Introduction

It occurred to me that, in the light of the global popularity of Downton Abbey, a serialised account of the contemporary life of a member of the English Landed Gentry,  Lord Ravado, Earl of Slough would go down well here on Persona Paper. Being an En

Posted in Humor on January 2, 2015, 3:42 PM by RikRavado.

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Some Brief Thoughts on A Place Behind the World by David Hazard

I should known better than to read anything but escape literature while I'm still in my post-surgical haze of pain and medications, but I'm trying to clear paper #books off my shelf, and A Place Behind the World looked about the right size to tackle (187 p

Posted in Books on December 11, 2014, 10:36 PM by BarbRad.

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Review: 'Elizabeth Is Missing' by Emma Healey

This first novel of professional book binder, Emma Healey, "Elizabeth Is Missing," reveals incredible insights into the minds and hearts of those in varying states of dementia and in those who care for and about them. It leaves me wondering what more might

Posted in Books on October 28, 2014, 12:37 PM by Feisty56.

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Review: 'Dead on the Dance Floor' by Heather Graham

I must be one of the last readers in the world to have discovered the novels of Heather Graham, a prolific novelist and a "New York Times" bestselling author. Ms. Graham has written not only under her maiden name of Graham, but also under her married name,

Posted in Books on October 21, 2014, 1:46 PM by Feisty56.

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Review: 'A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel' by Mel Starr

The second novel in the Hugh de Singleton, surgeon, series by author Mel Starr, seamlessly picks up where "The Unquiet Bones" left off. Still, if "A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel" is the first book you read of this series, you will soon be brought up to sp

Posted in Books on October 13, 2014, 11:05 AM by Feisty56.

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Review: 'The Unquiet Bones' by Mel Starr

The first in the Hugh de Singleton chronicles, 'The Unquiet Bones' is both historic fiction and mystery -- a delightful, if unusual, combination of the two. There's enough of each to satisfy an aficionado of either genre. Set in medieval England in the 14

Posted in Reviews on September 26, 2014, 8:50 PM by Feisty56.

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NaNoWriMo: The Ultimate Writing Challenge

As strange as it may seem to try writing an entire novel in only a month, NaNoWriMo (so called because "National Novel Writing Month" is quite a mouthful) must be working for some writers. NaNo is in its sixteenth year in 2014, and in each of the preceding

Posted in Writing on September 14, 2014, 10:42 PM by Ruby3881.

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Sudo Makes Sandwich

Going right through it. This is a part of the story that I'm currently writing right now. Here it goes... ===No one knew how or why it started... some say it was God's wrath... others say it was the Earth's way of healing itself... others say, it was alie

Posted in Writing on September 2, 2014, 11:01 PM by allen0187.

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