Sunday, November 30, 2014

Borges
Calvino
Peake 
Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring

Lambing Season

What I Didn't See

Bloodchild

The Watched

Solitude

Beasts / Engine Summer

Moon Moth 

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Stories about animals

Poor Little Warrior!
Author of Acacia Seeds
Black Charlie
Surfacing
Creature
Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
Finisterra
The Star Beast
Grandpa
The Ugly Chickens
What I Didn't See
Triceratops Summer
The Golden Horn
Roog
The Ballad of Lost C'Mell
Dolphin's Way
A Midwinter's Tale
Sundance
Bears Discover Fire
Face Value
The Black Destroyer

Something to hitch meat to
when i was miss dow
gliders though they be
creature 
The Overloaded Man and Something to Hitch Meat To

Vintage Season and Standing Room Only

What I Didn't See and Women Men Don't See

The Saliva Tree and The Time Machine

The Rose and A Work of Art 

Friday, November 28, 2014

The Best of the Best: Volume 1
The Best of the Best: Volume 2
Modern Classics of Science Fiction
Modern Short Novels of Science Fiction
The Good Old Stuff
The Secret History of Science Fiction
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction
The Norton Book of Science Fiction
The World Treasury of Science Fiction
The Science Fiction Century
The Science Fiction Omnibus
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Eclipse 3
21st Century Science Fiction
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volumes 2 A and B
Dangerous Visions
The Best of Universe
Adventures in Time and Space
The Locus Anthology
The Best of Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy Volumes 1 and 2
Masterpieces 
Angouleme
Bloodchild
The Persistence of Vision
Lambing Season
What I Didn't See
Surface Tension
God's Hooks
Rewards for the day:

The Moon Moth
The Saliva Tree
Sandkings
Surfacing
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
Silently and Very Fast

Vance, Aldiss, Martin, Williams, Resnick, Valente.
Standing Room Only
Sur
Salvador
The Ugly Chickens
Angouleme
God's Hooks
Something to Hitch Meat To

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Whoa. So Eclipse 3, two stories in, is freaking MARVELOUS. 

The Visited Man, by Molly Gloss

The most beautiful ghost story I've ever read.

Authors to actively follow:

Karen Joy Fowler
Maureen M. McHugh
Tony Daniel
Molly Gloss
Eileen Gunn

Three Stories

A Little Something For Us Tempunauts
Sail The Tides of Mourning
Blood's a Rover


Friday, November 21, 2014

Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment
The Dark Descent
Modern Classics of Fantasy
Fantasy Hall of Fame
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
The Book of Fantasy
The Weird
Cosmicomics
The Complete Stories of Borges

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Sur, by Ursula Le Guin

An interesting rebuff to Lovecraft and Campbell.

Three Compact Tales

None So Blind by Joe Haldeman
Day Million by Frederik Pohl
Slow Tuesday Night by R A Lafferty 

Friday, November 14, 2014

Wang's Carpets
Surface Tension
The Saliva Tree / The Worm That Flies
Surfacing
Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge
Silently and Very Fast
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
Sailing to Byzantium
Sur
The Moon Moth
The Watched
The Man Who Bridged The Mist
Turquoise Days
Lambing Season
Breathmoss

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Time in Advance, by William Tenn

Another great, great story. I remember enjoying Liberation of Earth, and this was even better.

None So Blind, by Joe Haldeman

Hello and welcome world. Very many outstanding stories later (kirinyaga comes to mind) I have found the perfect story I have ever read. This will change in a week's time but till then Joe Haldeman's None So Blind takes top spot. Amazing stuff. Very Sturgeonish.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The Other Celia, by Theodore Sturgeon

Another marvelous read, and strangely heartbreaking.
Surface Tension
The Asian Shore
Seven American Nights
Tandy's Story / The Other Celia
Mother Hitton's Littul Kittuns
Houston, Houston, Do You Read Me?
Eurema's Dam
Jeffty is Five
Solitude
The Marching Morons
The Moon Moth
The Ugly Chickens

Monday, November 3, 2014

Read Today

The Hounds of Tyndalos
High Weir
Solitude
The Marching Morons
Kirinyaga

Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Ballad of Lost C'Mell, by Cordwainer Smith

Considered a seminal novella, and I can see why. Golden Age SF charm notwithstanding, this story is one of the few treatments of the 'animal problem' in SF that merits close study. The plot is pretty standard; it's the language, and the light-hearted tone that really made this such a memorable read for me. Smith seems to have been quite ahead of his times when it comes to talking about serious issues in a non-pretentious veneer. A gorgeous read.