Friday, February 3, 2023

SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: links to reviews+: 25 January-1 February 2023

Frank Babics: "The Little Black Bag" by C. M. Kornbluth, Astounding Science Fiction July 1950, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. (and widely reprinted/adapted for television by Night Gallery)

Joachim Boaz: "Lot" by Ward Moore, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1953, edited by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas; "I Remember, Anita..." by Langdon Jones, New Worlds SF, September-October 1964, edited by Michael Moorcock

Brian Busby: Destination: Universe by A. E. van Vogt

Tim DeForest: "Hok Visits the Land of Legends" by Manly Wade Wellman (Fantastic Adventures, April 1942, edited by Raymond A. Palmer)

Barry Ergang: Thriller 2 edited by Clive Cussler

Paul Fraser: "Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, edited by George Mann); "A Feast of Butterflies" by Amanda Hollander (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March-April 2020, edited by Charles Coleman Finlay); "What We Call Service, They Call Treason" by Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov's Science Fiction, January-February 2023, edited by Sheila Williams); "Toy Planes" by Tobias Bucknell (Nature, 13 October 2005, edited by Philip Cambell); "Algy" by L. Sprague de Camp (Fantastic, August 1976, edited by Ted White)

Aubrey Hamilton: Snake-Bite and Other Mystery Tales of the Sahara by Robert S. Hichens

Rich Horton: Sometime, Never: Three Tales of Imagination by William Golding, John Wyndham,  and Mervyn Peake

Jerry House: "Henry Horn's Super-Solvent" by Dwight V. Swain (Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, edited by Raymond A. Palmer); "A Ghoul and His Money" by C. M. Kornbluth (Dime Detective, September 1946, edited by Loring Dowst? John Bender?); "An Illusion in Red and White" by Stephen Crane (first published posthumously in the UK edition of The Monster and Other Stories by Crane); "Moozeby" by James F. Sullivan (The Strand Magazine, February 1892, edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith)

George Kelley: Verdict of 13: A Detection Club Anthology edited by the (new) Detection Club; Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Three Adventures by Garth Nix

Joe Kenney: The Coming of the Terrans by Leigh Brackett

Richard Krauss/Larque Press: The Best of Manhunt 4: The Jack Ritchie Stories by Jack Ritchie, edited by Jeff Vorzimmer

B.V. Lawson: A Thief in the Night: The Further Adventures of Raffles by E. W. Hornung

Steve Lewis: "The Defenders" by Philip K. Dick, Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953, edited by H. L. Gold

James McGlothlin: The Year's Best Horror Stories, Series XI edited by Karl Edward Wagner

Neeru: The Puffin Book of Funny Stories illustrated by Amit Vachharajani (Penguin India 2005; no editor credited)


John O'Neill: In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner; Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: Invasions edited by Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh; January-February 2023 roundup of issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction edited by Sheree Renee Thomas, Asimov's Science Fiction edited by Sheila Williams, and Analog Science Fiction & Fact edited by Trevor Quachri; High Noon on Proxima B edited by David Boop

James Reasoner: Texas Rangers, April 1954 (editor uncredited); G-Men Detective, April 1946; further pulp citations

Jack Seabrook: "Terror Town" by "Ellery Queen" (Argosy, August 1956, edited by Henry Steeger? Alden H. Norton?) as adapted by Leigh Brackett for Alfred Hitchcock Presents:

John Stickney: Shooting Creek and Other Stories by Scott Loring Sanders

"TomCat": Short impossible crime and locked room mystery stories

Mark Yon: New Worlds, February 1968, edited by Michael Moorcock

Patti Abbott will be gathering the weekly links again this coming Wednesday...

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for linking my two reviews! I thought they made an intriguing pair.

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  2. Both stories are definitely intent on starting discussion! You're quite welcome, and thanks for posting.

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  3. Thanks, Todd! Oddly enough, I'm about to read "Consider Her Ways" for my next Hitchcock post.

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  4. You're welcome, Jack, and thank you. Worse fates could await you!

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