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• "Skirmish (Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!)" (1950) by Clifford Simak

  20 May 2015 by Clifford Simak

  Originally published in the December 1950 issue of Amazing Stories under the rousing title Bathe Your Bearings in Blood!, always republished under the later and somewhat subtler — and rather more in keeping with the spirit of the story, it must be said — title of Skirmish, this striking account (...)

• "When Time Was New" (1964) by Robert F. Young

  23 May 2013 by Robert F. Young

  Robert F. Young (1915-1986) was a prolific science-fiction writer whose 200-odd stories were published in all of the leading s-f magazines of his day as well as in Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post and Playboy. Although many of his stories were also published in book form, they are today (...)

• "The Wishes We Make" (1943) by E. Mayne Hull

  27 April 2013 by E. Mayne Hull

  A genie suddenly appears before a condemned man in his death cell and offers him not just one wish but six - what is the problem? you might ask. Well, avoiding one’s destiny is not as easy as it sounds, as this quite brilliant and very amusing golden-age tale with the most sombre of overtones, (...)

• The Funniest Science-Fiction Story: “MUGWUMP 4” (1959) by Robert Silverberg

  12 April 2013 by Robert Silverberg

  Science fiction is not a domain noted for its humour - adventure in far-off spaces, dramatic encounters with alien life forms and cosmic strife involving the fate of whole galaxies or at least that of mankind are more what come to mind when the term is evoked.
  But a number of noteworthy (...)

• "Sci-fi drink" stories by Kingsley Amis

  21 November 2012 by Kingsley Amis

  These two unusual and very original stories are examples of a rare genre invented by the brilliant author of Lucky Jim: "SF-drink".
  They had me chuckling and even hooting, an enjoyable and all-too-rare experience indeed, and I dare say that they will have you doing the same! 1. The 2003 Claret (...)