#hfy — Public Fediverse posts
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A lot of the HFY ( Humanity, F**k Yeah!) Sci-Fi stuff on Reddit and YouTube very much fits into this category.
Mostly consisting of pesky aliens getting outclassed by or receiving a good thumping from humanity. It rarely portrays humanity as being the unreasonable party.
If you exclude this and the stories of lost alien princesses which fill the galaxy and continually need rescuing there are still some worthwhile stories but you have to hunt for them.
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When you consider the numbers, it's not at all surprising that landing on the moon is hard.
- The moon moves through space at an average of 3,680 km/h, depending on where it is in its orbit of Terra, varying between 3,492 and 3,888 km/h.
- The ground at the moon's equator is moving at a speed of 17 km/h.
- You start off in orbit at a speed of 5,760 km/h relative to the moon's surface.
- There is no atmosphere to help you stabilise your vectors in relation to the moon's surface by dragging you along.Humans, their brains integrating multiple inputs at the speed of thought and relying on muscle memory, found it hard. Computers, relying on radar, cameras, and directional sensors, are finding it extremely hard.
Which makes the successful unmanned landers all the more amazing.
HFY 😁
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I think about this short story a lot. I don't know what about it really sticks with me, but I like it. I think part of it is the joy of finding alien life, along with the disappointment that they're really just like us, hits hard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/631sm0/lablonnamedadon/
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Galaxy Voted to Exterminate Earth’s Disabled – We Voted to Leave the Galaxy Instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdGgNEDuNVM
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I just read The Road Not Taken by H. Turtledove. It was a really enjoyable short story... And well written. I liked it. It was a nice break from job seeking.
The idea of aliens inventing faster than light travel before they figure out electricity is certainly something I hadn't considered. And does make for an interesting story.
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I've been listening to The Nature of Predators on Youtube with NetNarrator because its Reddit HFY stuff.
The premise is that omnivores are considered impossible and that theres only one carnivore species in the galaxy and they are at war with everyone else.
As it develops, it ends up playing on the title in a ton of ways that will surprise you, but essentially, with a #HFY #story what you want is to highlight a way humans are awesome. In this case we were the first to invent therapy #amReading
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They Gave Water to a Stranded Human, So Humanity Ended Their Drought Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvsDvgXFDPE
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The Day Humanity Arrived at the Deathworld Council… With Blood on Their Ships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntf2pGAIDP0
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#Books and #stories for #AugustReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks
Eleven novels:
●●●○○ The Secret of ZI - Kenneth Bulmer
●●●◐○ Times of Trouble {New John Connor Chronicles 3} - Russell Blackford
●●●◐○ Case of the Murdered Mayor {Miles Grant 02} - Jack Dearborn
●●●○○ Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne #HFY
●●●◐○ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard
●●◐○○ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 03} - Jack Dearborn
●●●●◐ Head On {Lock In 2} - John Scalzi
●●●○○ The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright {Middle Falls 10} - Shawn Inmon
●●○○○ The Timothy File {Miles Grant 04} - Jack Dearborn
●●◐○○ The City {Aestus 1} - S. Z. Attwell #CliFi
●●●◐○ Case of the Phantom Phaeton {Miles Grant 05} - Jack DearbornTwo novellas:
●●●○○ Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
●●●◐○ Born in the Wrong Body - Martin Brant #transTwo novelettes:
●●●●○ Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms - Jack Campbell
●●●●◐ Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite #queerTwenty-six short stories:
●●○○○ A Day Among the Liars - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●◐○ Where Does a Circle Begin? - Jack Campbell
●●○○○ Natural - Peter Cawdron
●●●○○ Master - Ursula K. Le Guin
●●◐○○ An Extraordinary Wedding - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●○○ The Great Naked Adventure - P.A. Choi
●●●○○ Living Eggs Project {Agent Adams 02} - Tim Tolbert
●●◐○○ King of the Hill - James Blish
●●◐○○ Nothing Happens to Lefty Feep {Lefty Feep 11} - Robert Bloch
●◐○○○ End as a World - F. L. Wallace
●●○○○ Yellow Streak Hero - Harlan Ellison
●●●○○ Son of a Witch {Lefty Feep 6} - Robert Bloch
●●○○○ Entangled Vision {Agent Adams 03} - Tim Tolbert
●●●◐○ Concerns of the Second Sex - Pavarti K. Tyler
●●●●○ The Soul Buyer - Keith Laumer
●●○○○ Jerk the Giant Killer {Lefty Feep 7} - Robert Bloch
●●◐○○ Last Cruise of the Judas Iscariot - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●○○ Unnatural - Ann Christy
●●●●○ These Are the Times - Jack Campbell
●●●◐○ The Sun Never Sets - Anthea Sharp
●●○○○ Sunspot - Hal Clement
●●◐○○ Rocket to Limbo - Margaret St. Clair
●◐○○○ Echoed Life Foundation {Agent Adams 04} - Tim Tolbert
●●○○○ The Witness - Leona Celestia
●●●○○ Lefty Feep and the Racing Robot {Lefty Feep 13} - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ The Devilish Rat - Edward Page Mitchell━━━━━━━━━━━
2025-08: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 11 nov
2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
━━━━━━━━━━━One very long, very slow novel knocked my reading down, but since I was reading three shorter novels each full week, not by much.
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Alien Survival Game Banned Tech… Humans Had Fire, Tools, and Weapons Before Aliens Even Made Camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6woKpZMKo8
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CW: fictional warcrimes, taking things seriously for comedic effect
A fandom I'm in for an HFY story frequently gets the tired old "Geneva Conventions more like Geneva Checklist amirite let's go torture some xenos" """jokes"""
So a few of us other, more sensible fans have decided to actually look at the Geneva Conventions, and, uh.I think that with the right attitude, "Geneva Checklist" would actually be really funny at the expense of precisely the kind of people who make the tired sadistic jokes.
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Left to Die in Space—Then a Human Ship Pierced Through the Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8IPFHBas0
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I could stand to see more HFY stories where humans and their alien companions get really lucky because of some particularly niche evolution that we went through. Like, I love the ones where we're just space orcs, but...
The human nose is incredibly sensitive to the compound geosmin, and we don't exactly know why. But it's part of the bouquet of "wet ground after a rainstorm," and it's thought maybe our ancestors used it to find water in arid climates. But here's the thing: it's incredibly specific to this planet! The compound is created by algae and bacteria, and it becomes airborne when the rain soaks into the ground and pushes the air out of the earth (where the geosmin is concentrated) into the local atmosphere. There's no particular reason to believe there'd be a correlation between rain and geosmin in the atmosphere on any other planet, just this one.
Be kind of funny if it were correlated with something else and aliens started putting humans on their away teams as sort of bloodhounds.
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I follow the #HFY story The New Species/The New Threat/The New Era and when I am thinking about that sort of story I ask "what human quality are they celebrating?" And in that case it is "Humans embody entropy" but in a very charming way because the Omni Union just doesnt believe in entropy and took it to the extreme. #amReading #reddit #sciFi
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I read #HFY stories, so I obviously have no problems with them. But I find that I do have an issue when the #SciFi story I'm reading suddenly decides forty percent in that it's a #HumanityFuckYeah tale. I was in a different headspace.
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### #Books and #stories for #JanuaryReads.
~500 words | Tag to mute: #BokBooksNine novels:¹
●●●◐○ Hidden Things - P.Z. Walker {Emma Nelson 3} #mystery
●●●◐○ 1638: The Sovereign States - Flint, Huff, Goodlett {USSR 4} #AltHist
●●●◐○ Ashes, Ashes - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 11} #HFY
●●●◐○ A Diogenes Club for the Czar - Huff, Goodlett {Miroslava Holmes 4}
●●●○○ The Council on Jerusalem - Pierre E Pettinger Jr {Sodality Universe 5} #SpaceOpera
●●●●○ Usurpation {Semiosis 3} - Sue Burke #SFF
●●◐○○ Murder in the Tool Library - A.E. Marling #solarpunk
●●●●○ Zero Sum Game - S.L. Huang {Cas Russell 1} #thriller
●●●○○ Paradigms Lost - Ryk E. Spoor {Digital Knight}Zero novellas. Again.²
Five novelettes:
●●●◐○ Doctor Satan - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 1} #WeirdTales
●●●◐○ The Man Who Chained the Lightning - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 2}
●●●◐○ Mask of Death - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 8} #pulp
●●●◐○ The Raid on the Termites - Paul Ernst #VintageSciFi
●●●○○ Marooned Under the Sea - Paul ErnstTwenty-six short stories:
●●●◐○ Deus Ex Machina - Francis G. Rayer
●●●◐○ The Land of Lost Content - Chad Oliver
●●●●◐ The Mercenaries - H. Beam Piper
●●●◐○ Immersion - Aliette de Bodard
●●●◐○ Metal Like Blood in the Dark - T. Kingfisher
●●●○○ The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir - Karin Tidbeck
●●◐○○ Lorelei Street - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Morrigan in the Sunglare - Seth Dickinson
●●●◐○ The Ormolu Clock - August Derleth
●●●○○ World Behind the Moon - Paul Ernst
●●●○○ Man from Beyond - John Wyndham
●●◐○○ Home to Mother - Manly Wade Wellman
●●●○○ Space is for Suckers - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Scanners Live in Vain - Cordwainer Smith #ClassicSciFi
●●●●○ Voyage to Queensthroat - Anya Johanna DeNiro #trans
●●●○○ Belladonna Nights - Alastair Reynolds
●●○○○ The Old Dispensation - Lavie Tidhar
●●○○○ A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
●●●◐○ A Stitch in Time - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ The Lady Killer - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Gallery - Rog Phillips
●●◐○○ Tower of Babble - Robert Abernathy
●●●○○ But a Kind of Ghost - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ The Black Ewe - Fritz Leiber Jr.
●●●○○ Live in an Orbit and Love It! - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ Lost Bomb - Rog Phillips (ss) 19502025-01: 26 ss | 05 nvt | 00 nva | 09 nov
2024-12: 31 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2024-11: 39 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 05 nov
2024-10: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 06 novI shifted to Monday-start weeks this month, which was fine. I also switched to midnight-start days, which wasn't. I'm going back to 8am starts, since half of my reading is done after midnight, and I sometimes forget that I must get a story done before midnight to fit the calendar.
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[1] A reply to this post repeats brief descriptions of the novels. For descriptions of the shorter tales, see the weekly posts. Most short stories this month come from single-author collections (Paul Ernst, Rog Phillips, John Wyndham) or multi-author anthologies:
New Adventures in Space Opera - Jonathan Strahan, ed.
Legends of Science Fiction: 1950 - Christopher Broschell, ed.[2] This category is not likely to ever get high, but zero annoys me, so for next month I dug up something that proclaims it's a novella on the cover. Though the middle story in the trilogy is half again as long, and the finale is more than twice that.
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One of the tropes the #HFY stories likes to push is that humans are *so* unpredictable...
In stories that are *extremely* predicable. 🤗
Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. Formula fiction has its place.
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The Last Species That Made Earth Go Silent... They're Still Running | HFY | SCI FI Story #HFY #SciFi #SpaceOpera #TimeTravel #HumanityFY #AlienInvasion #SciFiStory #SpaceFantasy #GalacticEmpire #CosmicHorror #SpaceExploration #ScienceFiction #Storytelling #WritingCommunity #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQGss4jy5Q
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we review Earth is a Breeding Ground For Monstrous Creatures (2024) by Starbound HFY & Chikondi C.
#HFY #sciencefiction #scifi #weirdfiction #weirdlit #review #cthulhumythos #Lovecraftian
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #173: Yakutsk, Siberia.
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#brr #yakutsk #siberia #russia #arctic #places #geography #science #cold #didyouknow #funfacts #wtf #strangebuttrue #trivia #comics #comic #webcomics #webcomic #humanityfuckyeah #hfy #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Review: HFY Battle – The Moment Aliens Realized Humans Aren’t Prey, They’re Predators!
Not all soft sci-fi on the web is created equal. Occasionally, I take a chance on a story and then review it. I am a harsh grader but, regardless of my rating, please show this author some love.
Today I am reviewing a story by HFY Battle. Minor spoiler warning.
Story overview
The galaxy’s apex predators arrive on Earth and learn not to underestimate humans especially when snow is involved.
From the outset, this story lets you know it is here to have fun. I have a soft spot for comedy writing of which this is a pretty good example.
Story idea
As ideas go, this was a good one. The author understood the Earth setting and wrote as if they had more than a passing familiarity with the culture. Full marks for a great and comedic idea.
Show vs Tell
This story uses more “tell” than is advisable. A focus on “showing” would have taken this to the next level. That said, this is comedy and sometimes the extra “tell” was justified on account of being funny. Thus this story gets a forgivable 2.5 out of 5 for show vs tell.
HFY
This story nails the HFY element. I loved the concept from start to finish. The humans were slightly too genre-aware, but again, this is a comedy. For honour writing, that sort of thing is often for the better.
Narrative causality
There were a few moments that broke my willing suspension of disbelief. The one that stands out is where the tracker looks at the footprints and somehow knows that the aliens are too reliant on their technology. I understand that this is a key moment and explains all that happens after that. I just felt that the author could have perhaps eased us into that realisation.
Otherwise, each section of the story is built on the one from before. Overall giving the story good causality with some notable weaknesses. I’ll give “The Moment Aliens Realized Humans Aren’t Prey, They’re Predators!” a respectable three out of five for narrative causality.
Worldbuilding
The opening narration does a good job of worldbuilding. It sets us up for a comical story without info-dumping. The human setting felt real and populated with well-realised characters.
However, there are a few weaknesses. None of them spoil the story because you can get away with so much when the comedy is good. That said here are a few things I felt bring the overall world-building score down somewhat.
- Aliens that use Earth measurements
- Aliens that speak perfect English
- Humans who assume aliens speak perfect English
- Similes from the alien perspective that use Earth examples
- Spotting you are being followed by the footprints in the snow – a bit of a head-scratcher
Despite my complaint about simile use, I loved the author’s alien perspective turns of phrase and am willing to forgive all of them as they made me laugh. I’m also going to partly forgive the everyone speaks English trope because I enjoyed the story.
I’m going to give this story three stars for generally doing a good job and an extra half a star for making me laugh with the worldbuilding elements.
Dialogue
Most fan-written narratives fall down on dialogue one way or another. Like many such stories, HFY Battle struggles to balance the speech with the speech description. To be fair, dialogue is not easy and this story makes a fair attempt at it.
The dialogue writing weaknesses never detract from the story even if they do make my inner editor reach for the red pen.
The usual fan-writer allergy to the word said often results in writing that is trying too hard and falls on its face. This story did not fall flat despite avoidance of the perfectly respectable, “he said”. Well done.
Overall I give this a three and a half for a pretty darn good attempt that is somewhat better than the average Internet storytelling.
Characters
HFY Battle seems to have a good grasp on character expression. Each character felt like their own person both alien and human. While there is still room to grow, I cannot fault the character presentation in this story despite a few preachy moments from the lead human. Four and a half out of five.
Visuals
This video features a lot of fairly tacky AI-generated art. I was not a fan. I understand that the author needed something to show listeners which allows me to be somewhat forgiving.
I almost skipped this story because of the bad AI art. Weak AI art is often a sign of a poor sci-fi or HFY story. I’m glad I gave this story a chance so it gets a single star.
Subtitles
I’m guessing the subtitles were either AI-provided or typed in a great hurry. Given the types of mistakes, I’m going to assume the failure was AI.
I was no fan of all the words starting with capital letters either.
Overall, the author may wish to pass a human eye over the AI’s work prior to rendering the video.
Narration
I suspect that the narrator is AI. However, the choice of AI reader works. It does not mangle any words and sounds good to listen to.
While it lacked some of the more subtle inflexion and pacing that a human could have given the story, the narration was okay. Not perfect but okay.
I think that a human reader could have brought out a lot more of the inherent humour. There was a lot of funny that the narration did not give time to breathe. I’ll give narration a respectably average two and a half out of five.
Things I didn’t like
In this section, we start with five stars and deduct one for each thing I didn’t like (or half if it has some redeeming quality). I shall focus only on the story as I have complained about the visuals already. As this is just me complaining, feel free to skip to the next section where I offer praise for things I loved.
The humans feel a bit preachy at times. I understand this is a short HFY and you have to get the background in but this felt a touch clumsy. I’m taking half a star away for this because the genre kind of demands this sometimes.
Abuse of “very”. Very is a word that is very weak. Or to self example, a counter-point very is a cripplingly weak word that undermines an otherwise good sentence in most cases.
A half star for each of the two times I was thrown out of the story by what I call stopping points. A stopping point is a moment that makes you stop and remember that you are listening to or reading a story. This is when a reader might put down the story and go and do something else. We don’t want that. Both stopping points are mentioned elsewhere.
For those keeping score a home, this brings us to a passing grade of exactly average.
Things I loved
Spoilers – this story managed more than five things I loved and so gets maximum marks.
- …and the other 20% failing to live up to their own hype
- … slightly aggressive space algae with good PR – Brilliant
- …weather that would make a polar bear wear mittens
- …had all the climate variation of a warm bath
- Threat level: Yes
Things to consider in future stories
My takeaway thing to learn from here is the word “very”. This is rarely the right word for most things even if it is sometimes a good choice for humour reasons. Sometimes use of “very” indicates that the writer could have found a stronger word but tried to enhance their current one with a weak adverb. Other times, “very” undermines the word it is there to enhance. 99% of the time you don’t want this word at all.
No score for this section. I’m just taking the time to highlight something in what I hope is a helpful way.
Denouement
Let’s talk endings.
Many Internet stories struggle to come to an end. I was glad to discover that this story handled the denouement quite well. The author used it to get in a few more jokes which I fully appreciated.
Overall, a satisfying ending despite the preachy human bit.
Final score
Speaking of endings, we have reached the end of this review. The final score is the mean average of all the other scores.
The sum of scores was 42 over 13 elements for 3.23 as the final score. I’m going to round that up to 3.5 because I found the story amusing and it made me chuckle.
“The Moment Aliens Realized Humans Aren’t Prey, They’re Predators!” by HFY Battle lands an above-average human rating for a story that was fun to listen to despite some weak AI stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqw2aMFQkPw
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I dunno.
Couple of days ago I ended up on YouTube (ick) and stumbled across these HFY audio stories...
#HFY stands for "Humans, Fuck Yeah!"
I'd seen a couple of text stories before, on Archive Of Our Own, but I didn't know that it was a big thing, with it's own reddit feeds and everything.
I'm charmed, as it's a pleasant change from the whole grimdark gross vibe of how I tend to feel about people and a lot of the art + fiction I'm seeing on the fediverse.
OTOH it's easy to OD on. 🤗
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There is still good discoverable stuff on the internet.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/yd3cu3/wearing_power_armor_to_a_magic_school_1/
This is out of the HFY Reddit, somewhere I followed a series called the deathworlders for many many moons, and I've recently discovered this and spent many evenings reading the entirety.
Do recommend.
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#Books and #stories for #NovemberReads
Five novels:
●●●●● The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton #mystery
●●●●○ The Vampire Affair - David McDaniel {Man from UNCLE 6} #adventure
●●●◐○ Victory or Death - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 10} #HFY
●●◐○○ The Good That Men Do - Andy Mangels & Michael A Martin {Enterprise 11} #StarTrek
●●◐○○ Within the Range of Reanimation - William H Nelson {Awakening Wars 1} #horrorOne novella:
●●●◐○ Kalvan Kingmaker ⧨ John F Carr #AlternateHistoryFive novelettes:
●●●◐○ Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? ⬗ Jack Sharkey
●●●◐○ Hos-Hostigos ⧨ H Beam Piper
●●●○○ Sea of Grass ⧨ John F Carr #AltHist
●●●○○ Wanderers of Time - John Wyndham
●●◐○○ The Troons of Space - John WyndhamThirty-nine short stories:
●●●●○ The Yellow Pill - Rog Phillips #ScienceFiction
●●●●○ The Third Vibrator - John Wyndham
●●●●○ Destiny Uncertain - Rog Phillips
●●●●○ The Taint ⬗ John Jakes #SFF
●●●●○ Pranksters - Rog Phillips
●●●●○ Time in the Round ⬗ Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ Lonely Phoenix - Stephen L Thompson #SciFi
●●●◐○ Bottle Baby ⬗ Henry Slesar
●●●◐○ Exiles on Asperus - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Let Freedom Ring! - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ Outpost on Io ⬗ Leigh Brackett
●●●◐○ The Alexander Affair ⧨ John F Carr
●●●◐○ The Lost Machine - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ The Moon, A.D. 2044 - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Vampire of the Deep - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ Watershed ⬗ James Blish
●●●◐○ Spheres of Hell - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Truckstop - Rog Phillips #alien
●●●○○ Fireproof - Hal Clement
●●●○○ Step Out of Your Body, Please - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ The King of the Elves ⬗ Philip K Dick
●●●○○ The Monster Maker ⬗ Ray Bradbury
●●●○○ The Only One that Lived - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ The Thin Gnat-Voices - John Wyndham
●●●○○ You'll Die Yesterday - Rog Phillips #TimeTravel
●●◐○○ The Gone Dogs ⬗ Frank Herbert
●●○○○ Glug ⬗ Harlan Ellison
●●○○○ The Time Tombs ⬗ J G Ballard
◐○○○○ 2 B R 0 2 B ⬗ Kurt Vonnegut2024-11: 39 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 05 nov
2024-10: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 06 nov
2024-09: 23 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2024-08: 19 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 08 novShort descriptions of the various stories were in the weekly posts. Novel count down a bit, but I use short stories to fill in the calendar. One must have a nice-looking calendar.
⬗ = Legends of Science Fiction, 1950: Volume 1 - Christopher Broschell, ed. Finished this month.
⧨ = The Paratime Police Chronicles, Volume II - John F Carr & H Beam Piper & Roland Green. Two stories left.Stories also came from:
The Essential Rog Phillips - Christopher Broschell, ed.
More of the Essential John Wyndham - Christopher Broschell, ed.○ is 25CB, ● is 25CF, and ◐ is 25D0. That means the lists don't sort as nicely as one might want, even ignoring that #KateEditor somehow lacks a simple inverse sort function.
#BokBooks (a tag to filter if you find these weekly posts and monthly summaries annoying)
