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.