From the author of The Lani People and “Pandemic” (and a book on animal physiology), we now get a space Navy story ripped from the pages of the December 1960 issue of Amazing Stories — “A Question of Courage”.
Imagine you’re an officer newly assigned to a ship in wartime. As soon as you get [...]
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Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, tagged "The Were-Wolf", A.E. Housman, Clemence Housman, Fantasy, historical fiction, horror, werewolves on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Were-Wolf” is a Norse historical fantasy story by Clemence Housman. (She was A.E. Housman’s sister, and did both professional writing and illustration.) I think you’ll enjoy it both as a slice of olden life and a dark fantasy.
Part 1
28:37.
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We’ve finally come to the last story in the February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science: “The Thief of Time” by Captain S.P. Meek, aka Sterner St. Paul Meek. Yes, we’ve already had a story by him in this issue, “Into Space”, under another pseudonym.
This story, like the other one, relies on a [...]
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The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science is coming close to its end, as the next-to-last story, “Mad Music” makes its final bow!
You can find out where to find more stories by Anthony Pelcher at ISFDB and Fictionmags.
“Mad Music”, Part 2
32:24.
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The penultimate story in the February issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science begins with a crash. So if stories about building collapses in New York City bother you, this isn’t the story for you. (But I guarantee the stuff that happens in this story is pretty different.)
Part 1 of “Mad Music”.
16:37.
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The February issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science finally continues (at least a little), as we resolve that cliffhanger from the previous issue. But that’s not the end of the dangers our heroes must face!
Chapter 7: Through the Inferno.
19:42.
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The bonus tracks of the first half of this serial novel, from the issue right before the February issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, continue as we find out that Dodd is the Polycarp of monotreme mavens.
Chapter 5: Doomed!.
18:32.
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The bonus tracks of the first half of this serial novel, from the issue right before the February issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science, continue as we find out what a scientist can get up to, all alone underground with a ravening horde of giant beetles.
Hint: It ain’t all-beetle productions of Shakespeare.
Chapter 4: Bram’s Story.
17:17.
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The bonus tracks from the previous issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science continue, as the beetles hold a roundup.
Chapter 3: Ten Miles Underground.
15:27.
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The bonus tracks from the previous issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science continue, as our intrepid Antarctic explorers find themselves in a place of wonder and peril.
Chapter 2: Beetles and Humans.
15:45.
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As you know, I’ve been reading the February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. But that issue contains the concluding part of a serial which began in the January issue. I know that only having one part of a serial is an integral part of the old science fiction magazine experience. But speaking as [...]
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The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science continues, with a fairly short story called “Into Space”, one of two in this issue by Captain Sterner St. Paul Meek (under two different pseudonyms).
Science having progressed, you probably don’t want to use this story to help you with your physics homework. But everything is related [...]
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The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science continues, and so does “Creatures of the Light”. It’s time for a thrilling conclusion, and there’s nothing science fiction loves better than building a world and then taking it apart….
You can find more stories by Sophie Wenzel Ellis at ISFDB and FictionMags.
“Creatures of the Light”, Part [...]
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The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science continues, and so does “Creatures of the Light”. Time to visit the Baby Lab, and bring new meaning to “growing up too fast”.
“Creatures of the Light”, Part 3.
34:04.
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The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science continues, and so does “Creatures of the Light”, as Northwood learns the danger lurking in Dr. Mundson’s ship.
“Creatures of the Light”, Part 2.
34:29.
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