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QuasarDragon —
... And "Moment of Truth" by Basil Eugene Wells. Classic Mars set SF first published in Fantastic Universe December 1957. "Beyond the false windows she could see the reddish wasteland where dust clouds spun and shifted so slowly." In free e-book formats HERE . Gaming ...
SF Tidbits for 2/20/09
SF Signal —
... A Novel of Korre). Gail Z. Martin podcast-interviews Juliet E. McKenna (Irons in the Fire).
Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]: The latest Starship Sofa podcast features fiction by Ted Kosmatka and Edward M Lerner. From Manybooks.net: "The Great Gray Plague" by Raymond F. Jones (1962). "My Father, the Cat" by Henry Slesar (1957). "Moment of Truth" by Basil Eugene Wells (1957).
Game designer Greg Costikyan has ...
“Moment of Truth,” an old short story by Basil Wells
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars —
[image] Thanks to an awesome snowstorm earlier today and a recent post by Dave Tackett of the blog QuasarDragon , I was able to read “ Moment of Truth ” (1957), a short story by Basil Wells that is freely available at the site ManyBooks.net. Originally published in the December 1957 issue of Fantastic Universe magazine, “Moment of Truth” is about a woman named Ruth Halsey and the hardship she faces on Mars. Here’s an excerpt:“She loved that old tree. She had played among its long horizontal branches from childhood. Her brother, Alex, who had been killed ...
