Articles tagged with sciencefiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science Fiction Short Story Review: "The Last Supper" by H. D. Hamm
Guldrun was disobeying orders, but the prize! He saw a woman, perhaps the last woman on earth, running away with her child. What a feather in his cap it would be for him, an anthropologist, to bring the two of them back. Forget the orders
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
