Category Archives: science fiction

SF Reviews by Spinrad and Tuttle; Political Issues, Trends, Headlines

Posted on Thursday 15 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly
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Frederik Pohl’s “Outnumbering the Dead”

Posted on Sunday 11 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s novella covered by the Facebook Group reading Gardner Dozois’s big anthology first discussed here is “Outnumbering the Dead” by Frederik Pohl. Coincidentally, it was first published as a chapbook, in December 1992, in the same UK publisher’s line … Continue reading →

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Today’s Features and Headlines, 9 Sept 2022

Posted on Friday 9 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Ursula K. Le Guin, Ian McEwan; that Hunter Biden movie; Republicans taking credit; proof of Trump’s threat; D.C. welcomes immigrants; Doug Mastriano’s personal prophet, who speaks with God.

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102 ℉, and Comments About Hugo Awards Demographics

Posted on Monday 5 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today at 4pm or so. Last night we streamed the Hugo Awards ceremony,

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Michael Swanwick’s “Griffin’s Egg” + 4

Posted on Sunday 4 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s novella covered by the Facebook Group reading Gardner Dozois’s big anthology first discussed here is “Griffin’s Egg” by Michael Swanwick. It was first published as a “chapbook,” a smallish, thin book in a UK publisher’s series of such … Continue reading →

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Nancy Kress: “Beggars in Spain” + 6

Posted on Sunday 28 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s novella covered by the Facebook Group reading Gardner Dozois’s big anthology first discussed here is “Beggars in Spain” by Nancy Kress, first published in the April 1991 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction.

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James Patrick Kelly’s “Mr. Boy” + 5

Posted on Sunday 21 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This week’s novella covered by the Facebook Group reading Gardner Dozois’s big anthology first discussed here is “Mr. Boy,” by James Patrick Kelly, first published in the June 1990 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction.

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Joe Haldeman’s “The Hemingway Hoax” + 3

Posted on Sunday 14 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

“The Hemingway Hoax,” by Joe Haldeman, first published in April 1990, is the third story in the big Gardner Dozois anthology being perused by the Facebook reading group I’m following. (See previous Sundays’ posts.)

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Longtermism

Posted on Monday 8 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A key aspect of (good) science fiction is that it takes a long term view, of the species, of the universe, as so few individual people do.

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Paperback Sets: Asimov’s Foundation Novels

Posted on Sunday 7 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m going to begin a series of posts capturing photos of some of the many sets of matching paperbacks that appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I began buying books, that I have acquired (some when published … Continue reading →

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