Genres: Science Fiction
Today we present Rust by Brian Griggs. He’s taught junior high for ten years, five as an English teacher and five as a teacher-librarian. Of this story, he says, “I had a great chemistry teacher when I was in high school that greatly influenced my writing of “Rust”.”
You can find out more about Brian at his website, briangriggs.com.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Science Fiction
Today we present Part 2 of Peanut Butter and Jellyfish by Guy Stewart.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Science Fiction
Today we present Part 1 of Peanut Butter and Jellyfish by Guy Stewart. Guy is a writer and science teacher who’s been writing since he was 13. His main writing focus is science fiction and writing for children. His passion is to someday create science fiction books that would do for today’s young people what Robert A. Heinlein did for him.
His work has includes publications in ANALOG and CRICKET, a Hadley Rille anthology called AETHER AGE: HELIOS; the emagazine STUPEFYING STORIES; science experiments in TURTLE and HOPSCOTCH FOR GIRLS, historical and contemporary fiction, and the curriculum for two PBS science programs, to name just a few. You can find out more about him at his online.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Science Fiction
Now, last week, I professed ignorance of U.S geography, then went straight on to prove it by locating Virginia on the west coast! It is, in fact on the east coast. My humble apologies to all Virginians for shifting your fair state so far afield! My only defence is that I live in Australia where right now we’re heading into Spring, Christmas is in the middle of Summer, we walk upside-down, navigating our way through hordes of kangaroos, and everything is generally backwards.
Today we present Same-Day Delivery by Desmond Warzel. The story first appeared in issue #11 of On the Premises. Desmond lives in northwestern Pennsylvania, and that his most recent short story publications appeared in Daily Science Fiction, the anthology Candle in the Attic Window from Innsmouth Free Press, and at Tor.com.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Renninger looked like trouble.
Of course, they’re all trouble, or they wouldn’t be coming to me. By definition.
But it’s a sliding scale.
My office was at the end of what most people would consider an excessively long and narrow corridor. It had no door, affording me a clear view of the entire passageway; a necessary concession to my unique brand of paranoia. I need to see them coming, and from as far away as possible.
Genres: Fantasy
Today I wanted to present The Loot of Bombasharna by Lord Dunsany. However, I didn’t check the copyrights well enough. Lord Dunsany’s works are only in the Public Domain in the US, and certainly not in the UK and Australia. My apologies.
However, another very well-known writer was Hector Hugh Munro who used the pen-name Saki. Today we present his story The Name-Day. Saki’s works frequently satirised Edwardian society and culture and often had a mischievous twist, sometimes leaning toward the bizarre. An example of the mischievous is Down Pens, a story about the trials of responding to gift-givers with notes of gratitude, for politeness’ sake.
You can find out more about Saki at the ultimate arbiter of absolute truth, Wikipedia.
Adventures, according to the proverb, are to the adventurous. Quite as often they are to the non-adventurous, to the retiring, to the constitutionally timid. John James Abbleway had been endowed by Nature with the sort of disposition that instinctively avoids Carlist intrigues, slum crusades, the tracking of wounded wild beasts, and the moving of hostile amendments at political meetings. If a mad dog or a Mad Mullah had come his way he would have surrendered the way without hesitation. At school he had unwillingly acquired a thorough knowledge of the German tongue out of deference to the plainly-expressed wishes of a foreign-languages master, who, though he taught modern subjects, employed old-fashioned methods in driving his lessons home. It was this enforced familiarity with an important commercial language which thrust Abbleway in later years into strange lands where adventures were less easy to guard against than in the ordered atmosphere of an English country town.
Genres: Fantasy
Today we present Part 2 of To Be True by Jess Hyslop.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy
Today we present Part 1 of To Be True by Jess Hyslop. Jess lives in London has recently been ejected from the cosy realm of academia into the perils of ‘the real world’, where she is trying to survive the life of an aspiring writer. She studied English at the University of Cambridge and three years later, emerged with her passion for sci-fi and fantasy still fully intact. Extraordinary!
In 2010 she was awarded the University’s Quiller-Couch prize for creative writing, for Augury, a short story set during the Nazi occupation of Guernsey in WWII. You will soon be able to purchase the story from Shortfire Press.
You can find out more about Jess at her blog.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Science Fiction
Today we present Mrs. Jai by Wendy Bradley. Wendy was the TV critic for Interzone magazine for a time. She edited and published Farthing magazine, described by Ursula le Guin as “cooler than Asimov’s.” She went to the Clarion West writers’ workshop in 2003. She has been a hotel receptionist, bookseller, drama teacher, secretary and Civil Servant. Wendy lives in Yorkshire and works in London. She can be found on Twitter as wendybradley (check the show notes) where apparently she is “influential about football, business and drugs”. And she’s not sure what drugs they mean!
Your narrators this week include Marguerite Kenner, who narrated The Unicorn Tree in Episode 2, and Danielle Daly who narrated A Proof of Unicorns in Episode 6.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Today we present Part 2 of Alienation by Katherine Sparrow.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy, Modern Fantasy
Today we present Part 1 of Alienation by Katherine Sparrow. Katherine lives with her partner in Santa Cruz which she says “is a bit too sunny and mellow for her over-caffeinated Seattle soul.” She’s a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, where she learned many excellent things. She has been selling short stories here and there and is currently writing a book about teenagers and the monsters who love them. Katherine especially likes writing books, because that’s where you get to do big things. Her work has been published in Escape Pod, PodCastle, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and many others. You can find out much more about Katherine on her website.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Science Fiction
Today we present Damnation by Chris Stamp. Chris is an interesting guy, he’s had some pretty cool jobs. Right now his company Oakleaf Web Design offers a full range of web design services but he’s also been a game designer and worked for British Aerospace Military Aircraft Division on cockpit design. You can find out more about his exploits, including Mountain Biking and Writing Science Fiction at his website.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.
Genres: Fantasy
Today we present Part 3 of Tir Na Nog by Nathaniel Lee.
Theme music is “Appeal To Heavens” by Alexye Nov, available at MusicAlley.com.