Category: articles
-
Free short stories : where do I find sites for short stories and essays?
Where do I go to find sites for short stories and essays? Free short stories are pretty easy to find on Gutenberg, but the truth is that sometimes you need a curated list rather than just a single search term wading through the public domain sludge. I’ve got you. Here’s the list of the best…
-
The best really short stories
Talking through the Robert Sheckley stories made me ponder what the best really short stories might be. They’d need to be the sorts of things you could read in under 15 minutes, preferably in under 10. It would also be skewed towards what I myself have read, which admittedly is significantly less than some of…
-
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Because I was 8 years old when this site was created and because I’m professionally rather new to speculative fiction (I only recently discovered Alfred Bester and Robert Sheckley), I didn’t know about the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Here’s a look at what it feels like: So it’s just pages and pages of things I…
-
Dad Barefoot Skiing
Nothing long to this post, I merely wanted to add to the ongoing saga and legend of my late father. The man would have ski boat owners drive at VERY dangerous speeds so he could barefoot ski: In case you are wondering, yes it hurts. Boats and water are the first things that come to…
-
Grantville Gazette IV edited by Eric Flint
This review will be short and sweet. I ordered Granville Gazette IV at the prompting of Kerryn and Bjorn Hasseler because of a story I was working on spec for the new 1632 magazine. I think the thing I want to say is that sometimes anthologies like this never quite find their true audience because…
-
Robert Sheckley stuck every landing in Store of the Worlds
Holy smokes did Robert Sheckley stick every single crazy landing in his short story anthology The Store of the Worlds. If you have someone who likes Scifi or short stories, this is the book to buy them for Christmas. It is — bar none — the tightest short story collection I’ve ever read in my life. Yes, I’ve…
-
Book Burning in Fahrenheit 451 what is it about ?
For the first time, I read Ray Bradbury’s classic and I wanted to ponder book burning in Fahrenheit 451 what is it about ? This book isn’t about us, right? It’s about those other people who burn books. Because it’s the book-burning book, right? The one about the people who censor and ban and burn? …
-
Macy’s Day live blog
Well we woke up stupid early again for the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving parade and I figured I would try to live blog some of it. 06:13am — Folks out earlier this year than normal. Didn’t realise they started early. We’re already three lines deep. We prefer a bit of a buffer because of the cameras…
