After the success of the first Machine of Death collection, there would of course be a sequel. This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death is that sequel, and its backstory is still the same: The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Quote of the Day: Truth
“And that’s the thing about the truth. It doesn’t depend on people believing it.” —Aaron Diaz, Dresden Codak
First Lines: Unidentified Funny Objects 3
Like its predecessors, most of Unidentified Funny Objects 3 was a hoot, and again, all over the place: In “Master of Business Apocalypse” (Jakob Drud) a company specialized in apocalypse prevention gets a new CEO. “Company Store” by Robert Silverberg deals with a colonist who kinda gets conned by the company that sent him into… Read more »