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1) Liar Liar
Liar ['lī-ər] (n): 1. A person who tells lies. 2. A writer.
"Lying is essential to good storytelling. Daily, we writers sit at our computers—or legal tablets or Underwoods—and write down a bunch of untruths, piling one on top of the other, page after paltering page. We compound them, massage them, edit them, spin them, cut-and-paste them, until we're satisfied that, despite how outlandish or otherworldly these lies are,
...2) Unthinkable
Roger Phillip Graham (1909-1966) was an American science fiction writer who was published most often using Rog Phillips but also using other names. Of his other pseudonyms, only Craig Browning is notable in the genre. He is associated most with Amazing Stories and is known best for short fiction. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1959.
Phillips's Hugo-nominated "Rat in the Skull" was the cover story for the December
...Roger Phillip Graham (1909-1966) was an American science fiction writer who was published most often using Rog Phillips but also using other names. Of his other pseudonyms, only Craig Browning is notable in the genre. He is associated most with Amazing Stories and is known best for short fiction. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1959.
Phillips's Hugo-nominated "Rat in the Skull" was the cover story for the December
...5) Time Trap
Frank Belknap Long Jr. (1901-1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos alongside his friend, H. P. Lovecraft. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 World
...Carl Selwyn was a space opera writer who specialized in Science Fiction. He went from unknown to one of the most prolific Planet Stories writers of 1940. He did not write detective stories or Westerns on the side. His real name was Carl Selwyn Pugh Jr. (1917-1984). In his bio for Planet Stories, Selwyn tells us that he grew up on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He had little success as a writer until he found an agent and began focusing on the
...Clifford Donald Simak (1904-1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.
Simak attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison
...Nathaniel Schachner (1895-1955), who published under the names Nat Schachner and Nathan Schachner, was an American writer, historian, and attorney and an early advocate of the development of rockets for space travel. A prominent author of historical works on figures from America's Revolutionary Era, Schachner was also a regular contributor to the genre leading up to and during the early years of what came to be referred to as the Golden Age of
...Hidden treasures can be deadly.
The annual Spring-Cleaning Auction is kicking off in Lake Falls, Texas and twin sisters Samantha and Lizzie Brown are each hoping to snag a hidden treasure. But when a mysterious armoire is accidentally purchased by an erratic paddle-waving bidder, the sisters find themselves embroiled in a dangerous mystery.
Using her connections as a local reporter, Samantha investigates
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