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“You Know Willie” by Theodore R. Cogswell
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “You Know Willie” by Theodore R. Cogswell #05 of 20 (Read) I was disappointed that “You Know Willie” is not science fiction. It’s a story about...
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“The Cage” by A. Bertram Chandler
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “The Cage” by A. Bertram Chandler #07 of 20 (Read, Listen) “The Cage” is a fun story, although I’m not sure I would have included it in a...
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“Let’s Be Frank” by Brian W. Aldiss
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “Let’s Be Frank” by Brian W. Aldiss #08 of 20 (Read) Fantasy and science fiction are two genres where writers can imagine anything, but...
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“The Education of Tigress Macardle” by C. M. Kornbluth
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “The Education of Tigress Macardle” by C. M. Kornbluth #10 of 20 (Read, Listen) C. M. Kornbluth came out with four short stories in 1957 – “MS....
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“Profession” by Isaac Asimov
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “Profession” by Isaac Asimov #11 of 20 (Read, Listen) “Profession” isn’t one of Asimov’s well-known stories. It’s not a Foundation or Robot...
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“The Men Return” by Jack Vance
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “The Men Return” by Jack Vance #12 of 20 (Read, Listen) My initial reaction to “The Men Return” was “WTF! Far Out!” It’s not a great SF story,...
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“Small World” by William F. Nolan
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “Small World” by William F. Nolan #15 of 20 (Read, Listen) I’ve always loved post-apocalyptic novels about the last man on Earth, or at least,...
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“Flight to Forever” by Poul Anderson
Rereading “Flight to Forever” made me realize something about the core of my personality. There are a limited number of science fictional ideas that I resonate with that I like to regularly recall. I...
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“Time Waits for Winthrop” by William Tenn
Group Read 72: The Best Science Fiction Stories of 1957 “Time Waits for Winthrop” by William Tenn #16 of 20 (Read) Virgil Finlay usually created drawings and paintings that featured beautiful or...
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“The Man from the Atom” by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
“The Man from the Atom” by G. Peyton Wertenbaker was first published in the August 1923 issue of Science and Invention before being reprinted in the first issue of Amazing Stories. All the stories in...
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“The Day After the Day the Martians Came” by Frederik Pohl
After reading a story about hunting down God and another story about vicious attacks on women, Frederik Pohl anti-prejudice story seems downright pleasant. It is a breezy tale about how people recycle...
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Is It Possible, Or Is It Magic?
“Enchanted Village” by A. E. van Vogt has been extensively reprinted. It first appeared in the July 1950 issue of Other Worlds Science Fiction. I just read the story in Possible Worlds of Science...
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“Earth for Inspiration” by Clifford D. Simak
“Earth for Inspiration” is a comic science fiction story by Clifford Simak set millions of years into the future about a science fiction writer and his robot visiting a forgotten Earth. The pair go...
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FUTURES PAST: A Visual History of Science Fiction, Volume 4, 1929: The...
If you love reading about the history of science fiction, you should love reading Jim Emerson’s series Futures Past. I’ve previously reviewed the volumes for 1926 & 1927, and 1928. In the early...
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HOTHOUSE by Brian W. Aldiss
Science fiction is best when it’s full of wonder. When I first read The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, I was awed by the idea of time travel, but two other ideas wowed me even more. Wells got me to...
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The State of the Science Fiction Short Story in 2024
For thirty-five years (1984-2018) I depended on Gardner Dozois to tell me about the state of short science fiction in his annual The Year’s Best Science Fiction. After he died, there were still many...
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THE HEADS OF CERBERUS by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett)
Most science fiction stories seem to go stale after a couple decades. This week, I listened to The Heads of Cerberus by Frances Stevens, initially published 106 years ago. The story had passed its...
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A Unique History of Science Fiction (1945-1975)
From 1945 to 1975, P. Schuyler Miller reviewed science fiction books for Astounding Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction. He died in October of 1974. I stumbled upon an online PDF collection of...
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“The Million Year Picnic” by Ray Bradbury
Screenshot “The Million Year Picnic” by Ray Bradbury is about as famous to science fiction readers as O’Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” is to English majors. “The Million Year Picnic” was first...
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