A Deep Look by Dave Hook

January 18, 2022

The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg

How I got here: Back in November 2021, I read the Barry N. Malzberg story, “A Galaxy Called Rome”, as it is on the Recommended Reading (https://tinyurl.com/3p53m57r) List for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Fiction group on Facebook. It was first published in the July 1975 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & […]

January 14, 2022

“Exploration Team” by Murray Leinster (Astounding March 1956) as a Hugo novelette winner?

Back in November 2021, I made a Facebook post that started “I’ve been happily re-reading “The Hugo Winners”, 1964, Isaac Asimov editor.” What follows is that post, reformatted to something that makes more sense than a FB post and edited lightly for both content and format. A friend suggested that I had things to say […]

January 6, 2022

“Not In The Literature” and Christopher Anvil

I liked “Not In The Literature” (see illustration from original appearance), and I am pretty sure I have read it before in Analog. Still, when I read this, I found myself wondering (as many of us do at times about the contents of a “Best Of” or “Year’s Best” anthology), “Why is this story in […]

January 5, 2022

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