Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Literature Pick #118

Flight Through Tomorrow

by Stanton A. Coblentz (1896-1982)

An astonishing science fiction short story from Fantasy Book, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1947).

Monday, July 9, 2018

Literature Pick #112

The End of Time
by Wallace West (1900-1980)
A fantastic science fiction short story from the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories.


Thursday, December 14, 2017

Literature Pick #108

The Devil's Asteroid
by Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)
An action-packed science fiction short story from the July 1941 issue of Comet.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Literature Pick #104

The Terror from the Depths
by Sewell Peaslee Wright
From the November 1931 issue of Astounding Stories comes this fantastic science fiction short story, an action-packed tale starring Commander John Hanson, a character who appeared in ten stories from 1930 to 1933.



Friday, June 17, 2016

Literature Pick #101

High Man
by Jay Clarke
An amusing science fiction short story from the June 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Literature Pick #97

The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon
by Bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633)
First published in 1638 with the title The Man in the Moone: or the Discovrse of a Voyage thither by Domingo Gonsales, this brilliant story is one of the earliest works of science fiction in the English language.


Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Literature Pick #93

The Ideal
by Stanley G. Weinbaum
A wonderful science fiction short story from the September 1935 issue of Wonder Stories.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Literature Pick #90

Let There Be Light
by Horace Brown Fyfe
A short story from the November 1952 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.

Monday, December 8, 2014

Literature Pick #87

McIlvaine's Star
by August Derleth (1909-1971)
An absolutely brilliant science fiction short story from the July 1952 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Literature Pick #86

Moment of Truth
by Basil Wells (1912-2003)
A science fiction short story from the December 1957 issue of Fantastic Universe.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Literature Pick #83

Vanishing Point
by C. C. Beck
A sci-fi short story from the July 1959 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Literature Pick #81

One-Way Ticket to Nowhere
by Leroy Yerxa (1915-1946)
An action-packed science fiction short story from the December 1942 issue of Amazing Stories.


Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Literature Pick #80

The Jupiter Weapon
by Charles L. Fontenay (1917-2007)
A wonderful science fiction short story from the March 1959 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Literature Pick #79

The Space Rover
by Edwin K. Sloat (1895-1986)
From the February 1932 issue of the pulp fiction magazine Astounding Stories comes this riveting action-packed science fiction short story.



Monday, April 28, 2014

Literature Pick #76

The Floating Island of Madness
by Jason Kirby
A classic and exciting work of pulp science fiction from the January 1933 issue of Astounding Stories.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Literature Pick #75

The Man from Time
by Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994)
A wonderful science fiction short story from the March 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Literature Pick #74

The Cavern of the Shining Ones
by Hal K. Wells
A masterful science fiction short story from the November 1932 issue of Astounding Stories.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Literature Pick #73

Solomon's Orbit
by William Carroll
A lighthearted science fiction short story from the November 1962 issue of Analog.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Literature Pick #72

Advanced Chemistry
by Jack G. Huekels
A science fiction short story from the August 1923 issue of the Hugo Gernsback edited magazine Science and Invention, it was republished in Amazing Stories in 1927 and 1956.
 

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Literature Pick #68

The Salesman
by Waldo T. Boyd
A short science fiction tale from the March 1953 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.