Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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Fantasy Stories + Science Fiction Stories Periodical Archive
Did you know there’s a periodical archive of the entire backlog of fantasy stories and science fiction stories? As I went on the hunt recently for all of the free science fiction and fantasy stories online, I discovered this gem: Check out the Luminist archives in general, their periodical archive, and specifically the archive on…
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Free Speculative Fiction Online
In search for free speculative fiction online, I was introduced to this site titled just that. You can go to freesfonline.net and see all kinds of stuff you may have missed.
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What Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg?
As I continued my quest for free short stories and the best really short stories online, I stumbled across many Scifi short stories that are free on Gutenberg. So what Scifi short stories are free on Gutenberg? These, at least (let me know in the comments if you find more and I’ll add to the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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? …
