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Birthday Reviews: Roger Dee’s “Worlds Within Worlds”

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Front and back covers by Frank R. Paul Roger Dee Aycock was born on December 6, 1914 and died on April 5, 2004. He wrote mostly using the pseudonym Roger Dee, although he also published one story as John Starr when he had two stories appear in the November 1951 issue of Planet Stories. Dee’s story “Worlds within World” initially appeared in the October 1953 issue of Science Fiction +, the final science fiction publishing project of Hugo Gernsback. It…

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Birthday Reviews: Jon DeCles’s “The Power of Kings”

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Jon DeCles was born as Donald Studebaker on December 5, 1941. In addition to writing, DeCles is also a Mark Twain interpreter, performing as Twain and giving lectures about the man’s life and career. He collaborated with Paul Edwin Zimmer on the novel Blood of the Colyn Muir. Studebaker married author Diana L. Paxson. “The Power of Kings” was written for the eleventh Thieves’ World anthology, Uneasy Alliances, edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey and published in 1988….

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Birthday Reviews: Kurt R.A. Giambastiani’s “Intaglio”

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Kurt R.A. Giambastiani was born on December 4, 1958. Giambiastini’s debut novel The Year of the Cloud was a finalist for the 2002 Endeavour Award. In addition to writing fiction, Giambastiani has performed as a violist in regional orchestras and works as a software developer. “Intaglio” was published by Algis Budrys in the October 1995 issue of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, issue #17. The story has never been reprinted. Giambastiani’s story is set several years after a rebellion was put down…

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Birthday Reviews: John Dalmas’s “In the Bosom of His Family”

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John Dalmas was born John Jones on December 3, 1926 and died on June 15, 2017. Dalmas first book The Yngling was serialized in Analog in 1969 and published in book form in 1971. Dalmas began publishing regularly in the 1980s, producing the Fanglith books and The Regiment series, as well as many short stories. In addition to his career as an author Dalmas worked for the US Forest Service. Dalmas originally published “In the Bosom of His Family” in the…

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Birthday Reviews: Jerry Sohl’s “Death in Transit”

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Jerry Sohl was born on December 2, 1913 and died on November 4, 2002. In addition to science fiction, Sohl also wrote screenplays, including scripts for The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, including the episodes “The Corbomite Maneuver,” “This Side of Paradise,” and “Whom Gods Destroy.” His episodes of The Twilight Zone were ghostwritten for Charles Beaumont, whose failing health meant he couldn’t deliver the scripts he had contracted for. He has published under the pseudonyms Nathan…

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Birthday Reviews: Jo Walton’s “Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction”

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Jo Walton was born on December 1, 1964. Walton’s novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. In 2008 she won the Prometheus Award for Ha’Penny. She won the Mythopoeic Award in 2010 for Lifelode. In 2012 her novel Among Others won the Hugo, Nebula British Fantasy Award, the Copper Cylinder Award, and the 2014 Kurd Lasswitz Preis. Her novel My Real Children won the James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award in 2015. She was presented with the…

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Birthday Reviews: November Index

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January index February index March index April index May index June index July index August index September index October index November 1, Zenna Henderson: “Troubling of the Water” November 2, Lois McMaster Bujold: “The Hole Truth” November 3, Neal Barrett, Jr.: “A Day at the Fair” November 4, Kara Dalkey: “Bouncing Babies” November 5, Janet Pack: “A Coin for Charon” November 6, Catherine Asaro: “Echoes of Pride”

Birthday Reviews: Shane Tourtellotte’s “A New Man”

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Shane Tourtellotte was born on November 30, 1968. Tourtellotte was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2000 and his novelette “The Return of Spring” was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2002. Tourtellotte has collaborated with Michael A. Burstein and edited an anthology in honor of Hal Clement. “A New Man” was originally published in the October 2003 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, edited by Stanley Schmidt. It is part of Tourtellotte’s…

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Birthday Reviews: John Helfers’s “The Final Battle”

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John Helfers was born on November 29, 1972. Helfers has been nominated for the Hugo Award, both times in the Best Related Work category. In 2009 he and Lillian Stewart Carl were nominated for The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold and in 2013, he shared a nomination with Martin H. Greenberg for I Have an Idea for a Book…: The Bibliography of Martin H. Greenberg. While Helfers has written numerous short stories and novels, he is perhaps…

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Birthday Reviews: David Zindell’s “Caverns”

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David Zindell was born on November 28, 1952. Zindell was a first place winner of the 1985 Writers of the Future Third Quarter contest with the story “Shanidar,” which Terry Carr subsequently selected for his Terry Carr’s Best SF of the Year #15. The next year, he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His novels Neverness and The Broken God were both nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. “Caverns” was originally published in…

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