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The Jan/Feb 2021 Tor.com Short Fiction Newsletter is available for download (EPUB, MOBI, PDF)https://www.tor.com/2021/02/24/downlo...
includes stories by Richard Kadrey, Sam J. Miller, Tegan Moore, Annalee Newitz, Ian Rogers, and Lavie Tidhar
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke is on sale for $1.99https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002UM5BUU
featuring short stories in the same world as her novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
The Trekkie origins of Mary Sue as told to Smithsonian Magazine...https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...
Here's an interesting limited time Kindle deal, four Lovecraftian Tor.com novellas for $2.99Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas:
https://www.amazon.com/Reimagining-Lo...
which includes
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Trike wrote: "It’s as if all the heart emojis came to life."...wearing fishnet stockings!
The tales of Ensign Mary Amethyst Star Enoby Aiko Archer Picard Janeway Sue are pretty funny if you like comic stripsEnsign Sue Must Die! by Clare Moseley, followed by Ensign Two: The Wrath of Sue and Ensign Cubed: Crisis of Infinite Sues
and you don't have to have copies of the books, since they were originally webcomics with art by Kevin Bolk
http://www.claremoseley.com/ensign-su...
I am not a number; I am a natural hair color! ;-)
The Expansive Futures Sci-Fi Bundle, curated by Amy DuBoff and the SFWA is available for the next three weeks.https://storybundle.com/scifi
For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 or more, you'll get the basic bundle of five books in any ebook format.
Ganymede by Jason Taylor
The Stark Divide by J. Scott Coatsworth
Raptor: A TECH Ops Novel by John G. Hartness
The Chiral Conspiracy by L.L. Richman
Exodus: A Space Opera Adventure by T.S. Valmond
If you pay at least $15, you get the basic bundle, plus thirteen more books:
The Cost of Survival by J.L. Stowers
Two Suns at Sunset by Gene Doucette
Claiming T-Mo by Eugen Bacon
The Solar Sea by David Lee Summers
Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver
A Fall in Autumn by Michael G. Williams
Knight Errant by Paul Barrett and Steve Murphy
Warrior Wench by Marie Andreas
Annihilation Aria by Michael R. Underwood
Glitch Mitchell and the Unseen Planet by Philip Harris
Iron Truth by S.A. Tholin
When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn
The Hammer Falls by Travis Heermann
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "So who is the guest host for February?"Rod Simmons from the SMRPodcast (@RodSimmons on twitter)
I was going to skip the short story challenge but I've read three so far and all three have Goodreads entries so I'll give it a go.
Trike wrote: "Seeing two closely-related NH references back to back makes me wonder if either Franck or Abraham have spent time here"Ty Franck is very active answering questions about the show on twitter as @JamesSACorey. ask him
New short by John Taloni at Amazon, only 99 cents.Mars Needs Chickens!
https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Needs-Chi...
Trike wrote: "Apparently it’s now one of those boring clone suburbs with thousands of identical houses, but I remember it as scrubby desert where we chased tumbleweeds."Rio Rancho has been growing faster than any other community in the northern half of New Mexico. The thousands of identical homes are separated by dozens of identical shopping centers so that everyone can be near their favorite big box store.
As usual, when reading S+L forums, I wind up down some rabbit hole. Here's today's hole:https://egorschamber.com/tvhorrorhosts/
A database of horror hosts. Apparently there was a tv show circa 1975-76 in Albuquerque hosted by Captain Space, an alien...
Born on a planet far away,
Captain Space landed here one day;
Captain Space really must seem
The strangest cat that you've ever seen.
Captain Space don't cost six million dollars,
He's the man with the strangest powers;
Oh, Captain, stay here on earth,
We all know what you're really worth.
Captain Space, you're the guy for me,
Floating around in my TV;
I wanna see what you can't see,
A space cadet's what I'm bound to be...
I never saw this show, but the fellow who played Captain Space is Dave DeWitt, author of numerous books on fiery foods, the self described "Pope of Peppers", and host of the annual National Fiery Foods and BBQ Show in Albuquerque. The show was canceled last year and this year due to the pandemic. Maybe in 2022. He also wrote The Mute Strategy, "the ultimate novel of the mysterious animal mutilations" in New Mexico, required sci-fi reading if you live in this state.
Ok, back to the Albuquerque Door
Trike wrote: "Like a lot of kids in the 1970s, I grew watching the weekly Creature Feature on my local TV station. Every town had their version of the spooktacular “horror host” of monster movies (https://en.m.w..."I couldn't quite put my finger on what I felt as I read this book, but I think Trike nailed it. It's an amusing weekend creature feature. I don't recall any local creature feature tv shows. We get broadcast tv from Albuquerque NM and it's only in recent years that one of the local stations broadcasts Svengoolie (probably not the same Svengoolie that Trike mentioned). This Saturday was Earth vs The Spider starring a tarantula and a bunch of clowns.
Anyway, The Fold was entertaining, but lacks substance. That's not a bad thing. It just means it's not a book I'm likely to re-read.
Feb 2021Sword: 3/30
Laser: 3/30
Comics: 1/24
Overall: 9/100
I'm skipping the Short Story challenge this year, but I'm sure I'll read the occasional short.
The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone, illustrated by Michael J. Smollin is 50 years old.https://www.washingtonpost.com/entert...
Grover on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1970
https://youtu.be/lHqceaAirc8
