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

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Literature Pick #67

Zehru of Xollar
by Hal K. Wells (1899-1979; birthplace: Little Hocking, Ohio)
An exciting action-packed science fiction short story from the February 1932 issue of Astounding Stories.
 

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Literature Pick #63

A Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne (1828-1905)
A science fiction classic from a legendary author, first published in 1864 with the first English translation coming in 1871.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Literature Pick #62

The Black Tide
by Arthur G. Stangland
A marvelous science fiction short story from the March 1953 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.


Saturday, August 17, 2013

Literature Pick #61

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
by Edgar Allan Poe
A masterful apocalyptic tale first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Literature Pick #59

The Anglers of Arz
by Roger D. Aycock (using the pen name Roger Dee)
A marvelous science fiction short story from the January 1953 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Literature Pick #58

Reluctant Genius
by Henry Slesar (under the pen name O. H. Leslie)
A short science fiction story from the January 1957 issue of Amazing Stories.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Literature Pick #56

Egocentric Orbit
by John Cory
A science fictional short story from the May 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Literature Pick #55

Fee of the Frontier 
by Horace Brown Fyfe
A wondrous science fiction short story from the August 1960 issue of Amazing Stories.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Literature Pick #54

Foundling on Venus
by John de Courcy and Dorothy de Courcy
A wonderful science fiction short story from the March 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Literature Pick #53

The Skull
by Philip K. Dick
A time travel story from a legend of the science fiction genre, first published in the September 1952 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Literature Pick #52

The Death-Traps of FX-31
by Sewell Peaslee Wright
From the March 1933 issue of Astounding Stories, this is an exciting work of science fiction featuring Wright's recurring character Commander John Hanson - a character starring in ten stories from 1930 to 1933. 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Literature Pick #51

The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds
by George Henry Weiss (using his pen name Francis Flagg)
An exciting, action-packed science fiction short story from the January 1932 issue of Astounding Stories

Monday, May 6, 2013

Literature Pick #50

The Undersea Tube
by L. Taylor Hansen
An imaginative science fiction short story from the November 1929 issue of Amazing Stories.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Literature Pick #49

The Ultimate Experiment
by Thornton DeKy
A wondrous futuristic science fiction short story from the July 1941 issue of Comet.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Literature Pick #47

The Street That Wasn't There
by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Richard Jacobi
A brilliant work of science fiction from the July 1941 issue of Comet.
 

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Literature Pick #46

The Copper-Clad World
by Harl Vincent
An exciting action-packed science fiction (of the planetary romance subgenre) novella from the September 1931 issue of Astounding Stories.


Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Literature Pick #44

Spies Die Hard!
by Arnold Marmor
A spy-themed science fiction short story from the May 1954 issue of Imagination.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Literature Pick #43

The Record of Currupira
by Robert Abernathy (1924-1990)
A thrilling science fictional tale from the January 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe.


Thursday, February 14, 2013

Literature Pick #42

This is Klon Calling
by Walter J. Sheldon
A humorous science fiction short story from the August-September 1953 issue of Fantastic Universe.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Literature Pick #41

The Whispering Spheres
by Russell Robert Winterbotham
A fantastical science fiction tale from the July 1941 issue of Comet.