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n the series this story is entirely free of campbell s ideas and he does strike out in a more radical direction more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading may 6 2026 police patrol 2000 a d and so i return to mack reynolds the main reason i read this was to see how reynolds uses the idea of a policeman in his science fiction review police patrol 2000 a d mack reynolds 1978 this is a fixup of four stories romp 1966 criminal in utopia 1968 extortion inc 1969 and cry wolf 1974 i ve learned that reynolds expansions and fix ups of shorter source material get inconsistently transformed sometimes they are transformed to no real extra effect other times they are radically transformed or truncated so i ll eventually be looking at all these stories individually i m assuming the subtitle is there to indicate reynolds then decision as stated in the about the author section of reynolds commune 2000 a d which i m reading now to concentrate on serious depictions of life in 2000 ad in any case these stories seemingly intermingled together to present a narrative less episodic that the usual fix up use the standard utopia that reynolds had been starting to develop since mercenary in a world of ultramation there is a large amount of unemployment the few citizens employed are assigned jobs based on their ability quotient aq most citizens live on a universal basic income funded by what has become known as people s capitalism corporations pay their taxes with stock dividends from the stocks fund those payments the alloted income is inalienable but citizens can also buy variable basic stock for additional income spending money is done with a uni credit card secured by a thumbprint goods are ordered from the ultramarket on the transceiver s carried by all citizens reynolds almost got the modern smartphone right with that feature except the national databanks you can access on a transceiver are not identical to our internet nor is there anything like social media more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading may 3 2026 chardon s journal at fort clark 1834 1839 review chardon s journal at fort clark 1834 1839 f a chardon edited and annotated by annie heloise abel 1932 1997 to be honest i ve put off reading this one for a while because of its author s reputation as a drunken murderer and misanthrope that reputation springs from an incident famous in fur trade history and mentioned by charles larpenteur in 1843 at fort mckenzie when chardon and another trader alexander harvey ambushed a group of blackfeet indians using a hidden cannon after killing at least six they scalped them and allegedly did a scalp dance the ambush was retaliation for the stealing of their horses by the indians and the killing of chardon s black slave the incident led to the loss of trade with the blackfeet which had taken decades for american traders to negotiate but that s not the chardon we re dealing with here abel has her doubts as to how much of the ambush was chardon s doing rather than harvey s or that chardon was a heavy drinker his employer the american fur company still employed him after the incident chardon s journal differs from the other primary sources of the upper missouri fur trade i ve covered it was not an ethnographic discussion of indians like edwin thompson denig s five indian tribes of the upper missouri unlike larpenteur chardon was not a professional failure but a highly paid employee more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading may 2 2026 northwest passages impressed by her story the brink of eternity i picked this one up a signed copy no less at dreamhaven books years ago since i knew it had another story of weirdness in the polar regions i finally took it off the shelf last january unfortunately roden an author critic anthologist and reviewer seems to have written little fiction after this her sole anthology came out it seems politics and journalism have diverted her attention in the last few years low res scan northwest passages ed barbara roden 2009 cover by elodie bailly michael dirda s brief introduction praises roden s mimetic skill in faking documents and her extensive knowledge of victorian literature and dark fiction if any theme dominates it s lovers and friends dragging others into weirdness and danger more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 29 2026 polar horrors it was severe subzero weather when i took this one of the shelf for the customary seasonal reading back in january low res scan polar horrors strange tales from the world s ends ed john miller 2022 cover by sandra gomez i only have three of the now more than fifty books in the british library s tales of the weird series and this is the only one i ve read cover to cover they all seem to follow the same pattern a brief introduction looks at the theme in fantastic fiction the stories are arranged chronlogically with introductions before each story placing them in their literary and historical context and where the story fits in an author s broader work this volume deviates a little by splitting the stories between those involving the arctic and antarctic john miller s introduction holds that fantastic fiction sees the polar regions as places where civilization is absent and where nature exists in strange forms it s a tradition he sees as going back to mary shelley s frankenstein more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 25 2026 southern counterpart to lewis clark as with prologue to lewis clark this is another book about an obscure event i first came across in the atlas of north american exploration and i also picked it up at the missouri yellowstone confluence interpretive site review southern counterpart to lewis clark the freeman custis expedition of 1806 ed with introduction and epilogue by dan l flores 1984 2001 you say you ve never heard of the freeman and custis expedition even though it had twice the budget of lewis and clark s had in peter custis an actual naturalist and was led by an actual engineer and surveyor in leader thomas freeman well that s kind of the way president thomas jefferson wanted it it started out with high hopes explore the red river and find a path to santa fe and the pacific the southwest boundary of the louisiana purchase was also in dispute with the spanish empire the expedition 24 men in all left fort adams on the mississippi on april 19 1806 it was back by late august the so called grand excursion travelled all of 615 miles along the red river and then the doddering spanish empire of the americas gathered enough will to stop it in what s now southern oklahoma more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 21 2026 year of the rattlesnake for some reason i get a hankering for weird westerns in january and this one happened to be in the house review year of the rattlesnake steve van samson 2023 cover by m wayne miller inspired by jack vance s the dying earth van samson gives us a series of linked stories not following a chronological order that characters pop in and out of there are many things to say in favor of this book van samson plays straight with the weird western concept by setting his stories in a recognizable historical framework there s no alternate history here it s not a steampunk story it s not a fantasy that calls itself a weird western by virtue of having gunslingers and horses but throwing in dragons or being set on an alien planet or after an apocalypse more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 19 2026 the wind from the sun one of the first authors i read after i started reading science fiction regularly was arthur c clarke my high school library had several of his signet paperback collections but somehow i missed this one i d forgotten just how good clarke can be low res scan the wind from the sun arthur c clarke 1973 cover by paul lehr the best stories here feature protagonists often maimed physically pursuing quests often exploratory with clarke s characteristic combination of poetic description and hard science i ve already covered a couple of them a meeting with medusa and the titular story even at these shorter lengths clarke gives us enough characterization to identify strongly with the plight and goals and experience of his heroes that s also true of the cruel sky here physicist dr joseph elwin has a dream of climbing mount everest there s just one problem due to a thalidomide related birth defect he has no legs however he is the inventor of the elwin levitator an anti gravity device powered by earth s gravity field naturally clarke works out all the details of this technology elwin arrives at the hotel everest where tourists gather to acclimate perhaps get their blood doped and get outfitted with nasal filters which concentrate oxygen and eliminate the need to carry oxygen naturally nobody expects elwin to make the climb but he s made plans with the aid of his levitator to make the climb with an associate but things go wrong and both men find themselves flying above the himalayas and struggling to survive clarke even manages to work in one of his fortean interests more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 18 2026 a meeting with medusa green mars since it s relevant to an upcoming post i give you a raw feed 1994 a meeting with medusa arthur c clarke green mars kim stanley robinson 1988 a meeting with medusa a neat story it reminds me of another work that one a novel algis budrys hard landing both works evoke emotions more so in hard landing and a sense of place and wonder definitely more the case with this story with sparse prose which merely seeks to sketch action and place yet still evokes more i liked this story for its emphasis on lighter than air technology first the queen elizabeth dirigible and then an exploration of jupiter s atmosphere and evoking the wonders of place by such simple and hard sf techniques as stating that sound octaves are shifted upward due to the composition of jupiter s atmosphere i liked clarke mentioning and he is fascinated by unexplained phenomena particularly having to do with the sea the mystery of spinning wheels the so called wheels of poseidon and translating the mystery to jupiter and giving an explanation more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 17 2026 prologue to lewis clark yes gift shops at historical sites make a lot of money off me when i show up this is another book i picked up at the missouri yellowstone confluence interpretive site if i had ever heard of the mackay evans expedition before reading the atlas of north american exploration i d forgotten about it review prologue to lewis clark the mackay and evans expedition w raymond wood 2003 the mackay evans expedition of 1795 1797 was not an expedition of many firsts europeans had been on the missouri for more than 100 years it had even been mapped for a fair portion the expedition s only real first was that james mackay and his lieutenant john thomas evans led the first exploration by english speakers up the river and they did it in the service of the spanish empire the idea that there must be some feasible way to establish trade routes across the continent that spain could link st louis with its pacific coast possessions was in the air spain was very annoyed that british canadians were taking their trade on the missouri the russian empire was operating on the pacific coast in fact the mackay evans expedition was the third and most successful of spain s attempt to take the missouri up to its source and cross to the pacific still it only made it to the mandan villages on the missouri more share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading april 5 2026 1 2 3 220 next page search search receive our articles in your 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