Here are some of the short fiction works we read this week that we wanted to share with you.
“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe (1843, free online at Poe Stories, Kindle version)
I recently stumbled upon PoeStories.com and am pleased with the find. A Poe a day may well keep boredom at bay. The website helpfully gives descriptions of each story. I chose this one for the enticing simplicity of the summary: “a horror story about a cat”.
This is indeed a horror story about a cat,
March 21st, 2016. Katie Burton, Tadiana Jones and Kat Hooper | George MacDonald | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Hari Seldon is remembered for combining principles from psychology and history into “psychohistory,” a discipline that projects humanity’s course for thousands of years into the future. Psychohistory cannot very accurately predict the actions of individuals, but large groups are less random in their behavior. Unfortunately, Seldon’s calculations predict that the Galactic Empire will soon fall—and its dissolution will give way to thousands of years of barbarism.
Seldon is not cynical: he turns his attention to manipulating a course of events that will condense the coming Dark Ages and give rise to a reborn empire.
March 21st, 2016. Ryan Skardal and Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Isaac Asimov | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Wrath of the Bloodeye by Joseph Delaney
Wrath of the Bloodeye is the fifth book in Joseph Delaney’s very popular LAST APPRENTICE (or WARDSTONE CHRONICLES) series for middle graders. This book has also been released in other countries, such as those in the UK, under the title The Spook’s Mistake.
Tom has been John Gregory’s apprentice for a couple of years now. In the last book, Attack of the Fiend,
March 21st, 2016. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Joseph Delaney | Audio, Children, Horror | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Blood Music (1985) by Greg Bear is a novel that, in its day, was well lauded, but has since had its profile reduced by books which have taken its central premise further. One of, if not the first, major novel to utilize the idea of nanotechnology, the wave of related sci-fi digging deeper into the potential for nanotech that has followed has perhaps drowned out the book, leaving it to be found by those looking back into the history of the genre.
March 21st, 2016. Jesse Hudson | Greg Bear | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Kind of you to say. I certainly like to think so!
BTW, Steve Sterner will be performing at seven films during this upcoming fest: https://filmforum.org/series/clara-bow
As far as I know, Bill, Steve Sterner is the only person who does the live accompaniment to silent movies…
And I'm positive that Kaidan will fondly remember watching these movies with his old man for the rest of his…
You bet, Marion!