December 2018 – Larque Press | The Digest Enthusiast

News December 31, 2018

Analog Jan/Feb 2019

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 134 No. 1 & 2 Jan/Feb 2019
Contents
Steve Schmidt’s Guest Editorial: Speed Demons
Tom Jolly “Ring Wave”
Douglas F. Dluzen, PhD: Epigenetics: The Future of Genetics in Health and Fiction (Science Fact)
Peter Kanter: Statement of Ownership
Andy Dudak “Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing”
J.T. Sharrah “A Message from Our Sponsor”
Shane Halbach “The Last Squirrel Keeper” art by Kurt Huggins
Julie Novakova “All the Smells in the World”
John Alfred Taylor “The Umwelt of the Shark”
John G. Cramer’s The Alternate View: Are Humans Too Fragile for Life in Space?
Mary Soon Lee “Forever”
Edward M. Lerner “Clockwork Cataclysm”
Howard V. Hendrix “The Narrowest Eye”
Auston Habershaw “Applied Linguistics” art by Joel Iskowitz
Thoraiya Dyer “A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing”
Richard A. Lovett’s Guest Alternate View: The Zircons of Hades
Aimee Ogden “Lulu’s Friends”
Jennifer R. Povey “Temple of Children”
Robert Reed “Reboot”
S.B. Divya “Soft We Wake”
In Times to Come (Mar/Apr Preview)
Frederick Gero Heimbach “Fingers”
Stuart Greenhouse “Galileo Falling” (verse)
Bud Sparhawk “The Fading Pages of a Short Story”
Marie Vibbert “A Place to Stand On” art by Kurt Huggins
Susan Pieters “The View from Proxima Centauri”
Adam-Troy Castro “The Savannah Problem”
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Classified Marketplace
2018 Index
AnLab Ballot
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Donato Giancola
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until February 19, 2018
Analog website

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Reviews December 30, 2018

Telzey Amberdon

Jamese H. Schmitz portrait by Joe Wehrle, Jr. — James H. Schmitz by Joe Wehrle, Jr.

Excerpt from Joe Wehrle, Jr.’s article on “The Telzey Amberdon Stories of James H. Schmitz” in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

Undercurrents (Analog May and June 1964). Gonwil, Telzey’s best college friend, is being victimized by her guardians, in hopes of securing the financial holdings she is to inherit. Wellan Dasinger of the Kyth Agency works with Telzey’s psionic abilities to solve the problem, and we meet Chomir, Gonwil’s mighty guardian dog. Reprinted in The Universe Against Her. Ace, 1964.

News December 29, 2018

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2019

Contents
Linda Landrigan: Wrap Up a Mystery (introduction)
The Lineup
Mark Thielman “The Case of the Truculent Avodado” art by Kelly Denato
Pamela Blackwood “Justice”
Devon Shepherd “The Woman in Apartment 615”
Melissa Yi “Blue Christmas”
Jackie Sherbow: Booked and Printed
James Tipton “Shiva’s Eye”
Shelly Dickson Carr “The Beacon Hill Suicide” art by Tim Foley
Mark Lagasse: Mixed-Up Sidekicks (puzzle)
Janice Law “The Man Across the Hall”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle)
Steve Lindley “A Matter of Trust and Surveillance”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “After the Party’s Over”
John H. Dirckx “A Six-Pipe Problem”
Zandra Renwick “The Dead Man’s Dog”
E.F. Benson “The Confession of Charles Linkworth” (Mystery Classic)
The Story That Won (Sep/Oct) “Of Mice and Murder” by John Bright
Peter Kanter: Statement of Owenershp
Coming in AHMM Mar/Apr 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 1 & 2 Jan/Feb 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Artem Furman & Rakopton Tanyakam
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until February 19, 2018
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

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News December 28, 2018

Asimov’s Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2019

Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Just Deserts
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Looking Backward
Michael Meyerhofer “The Moral of the Double Slit Experiment” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Cosmologist, Space Traveler, Hero
Alexander Jablokov “How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots”
Sandra McDonald “Credit to My Nation”
Robert Frazier “Your Clone Meets a Doppelgänger” (verse)
William F. Wu “Written in Mud”
Leah Cypess “All the Difference”
Peter Kanter’s Statement of Ownership
Sean Monaghan “Ventiforms”
Jay O’Connell “The Gorgon”
Next Issue
Peter Wood “Salting the Mine”
Suzanne Palmer “Taking Icarus Home”
Robert Borski “Eclipse 2017” (verse)
Lavie Tidhar “Neom”
Jane Yolen “A Street Away” (verse)
Robert Reed “The Esteemed”
Paul Di Filippo: On Books
Thirty-Third Annual Readers’ Award Ballot
2018 Index
Classified Marketplace
Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 1 & 2, whole No. 516 & 517, Jan/Feb 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Michael Whelan
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until February 19, 2018
Asimov’s website
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Reviews December 27, 2018

Michael A. Black’s Dress Blues

Excerpt from the review of Down & Out: The Magazine No. 1 in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

Michael A. Black is the author of two series: Leal and Hart, a pair of police detectives, and Ron Shade, a private investigator. His story, “Dress Blues,” stars PI Shade who tries to pick up the trail of a troubled youth, gone missing from military school. Black’s first-hand knowledge of law enforcement brings his writing street cred, devoid of frills, as in this passage from an interview with a Spanish Tigers’ gangbanger:

“Listen, asshole, we both know you habla, so cut the shit. I don’t like it when someone tries to run a game on me.” George’s big hand moved down to Luis’s throat. “Now answer the man’s question. Comprende?”

“Dress Blues” is a tight, easy-to-read PI yarn that traces Shade’s steady progress to a nasty—if not entirely unexpected—wrap-up.

Uncategorized December 26, 2018

Auston Habershaw’s Masochist’s Assistant

Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

“The Masochist’s Assistant” by Auston Habershaw is a wonderfully amusing, clever fantasy. Set in a stodgy, prim society, famulus Georges serves an eccentric master mage until he simply cannot stand another moment of such dead-end servitude, and rebels. Habershaw’s brilliant prose and plotting make this novelette an absolute delight from start to finish.

TDE Update December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas

Coming soon in print, Kindle, and Magzter.

Vault December 24, 2018

Effa E. Danelson (1869–1939)

Excerpt from Tom Brinkmann’s article on The Occult Digest from The Digest Enthusiast book seven:

“While the history of The Occult Digest is interesting and complex, it is also the history of Effa E. Roddel who was born to James and Catherine Roddel in Warrens, Wisconsin on June 1, 1869; strangely enough, sharing her birth month and day with Marilyn Monroe who would be born on that day in 1926. Unlike Monroe, Danelson came from a large family with seven brothers and three sisters. She became Effa E. Danelson on June 19, 1905 when she married Gustav E. Danelson, originally from Varnamo, Sweden. That same year, Mrs. Danelson was getting messages from a ‘spirit teacher’ and had become a lecturer and spirit medium by the time she and her husband had made their home in St. Louis, Missouri.”

Tom Brinkmann writes about unusual, off-the-beaten-path magazines, digests, and tabloids. His Bad Mags website was active from June 2004–July 2017. His books, Bad Mags Volume 1 (2008) and Volume 2 (2009) are available from secondary outlets, including amazon.com

Vault December 23, 2018

Space Science Fiction No. 3

Space Science Fiction Vol. 1 No. 3 November 1952
Contents
Lester del Ray: An Editorial on Space Suits
H.B. Fyfe “Moonwalk” art by Paul Orban
Michael Shaara “Be Fruitful and Multiply” art by Ed Emshwiller
Walt Sheldon “A Lack of Verisimilitude” art uncredited
Straight, Place and Show readers’ votes for stories that appeared in No. 1 May 1952
A.J. Budrys “Walk to the World” art by Alex Ebel
Larry Shaw “Saucers in the Belfry”
George O. Smith’s Book Reviews Science: Fact and Fiction
Lester del Rey: The Big Convention (World SF Con No. 10)
Judith Merril “Hero’s Way” art by Gari
Philip St. John “Unto Him that Hath” art by Alex Ebel
Take-Off (Letters of Comment)
Coming Events

Publisher: John Raymond
Editor: Lester del Rey
Assoc. Editors: Peter Leavy, John Vincent
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: Earle Bergey

Read Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “When Things Go Wrong—The Lester del Rey/John Raymond Fiasco” in The Digest Enthusiast book seven.

Reviews December 22, 2018

Mel Anastasiou’s The Highwayman’s Deception

Stories from Pulp Literature No. 15 Summer 2017:

Much of “The Seven Swans, Book Four: The Highwayman’s Deception” by Mel Anastasiou is a self-contained adventure/romance set in olde England. Three chapters frame the tale of Spencer Stevens’ past life, while eight immerse the reader in his captivating adventure there as he courts the life of the highwayman and his teacher, the provocative Charlotte. Anastasiou is the acquisitions editor for Pulp Literature, and her stories appear regularly in the magazine.