Journey #134 - The Tunnel Under The World by Fredirick Pohl (presented by X-Minus One)

On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming...

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Frederik Pohl (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years.  From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards.  The Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993, and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC.  Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

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Delusion #18 - Force Friday

Rish regales us with his adventures from Force Friday, and Big Anklevich joins us to share his love of Furbacca.

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Journey #133 - A Dream Within A Dream by Bria Burton

She protected her little sister from Anna, who was always gloomy and mean. But would it be enough?

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An Edgar Allan Poe Month bonus episode!

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Bria Burton is employed as a blogger and customer service manager for St. Pete Running Company.

In 2015, "Tight Pants" appeared in Page & Spine Fiction Showcase. "Ticket to Heaven" appeared in Faith Hope and Fiction, an e-literary magazine. A science fiction reprint, "The Wheels Must Turn," appeared in the Broken Worlds anthology. As a member of an author collaboration called the Alvarium Experiment, she published a short story called "On Both Sides." The historical science fiction piece was one of thirteen in The Prometheus Saga. "Empty Girl" in FWA Collection #7 called Revisions: Stories of Starting Over, and "The Mute Girl" in Youth Imagination Magazine.

In 2014, "In Line at the DMYV," science fiction, appeared in the Welcome to the Future anthology. Little Angel Helper, a novella that first appeared as a live story on her blog, was released as an ebook. She also had three speculative fiction pieces published, including my first paid publication in The Colored Lens #13 with "The Darkness Below," science fiction. "Switching," fantasy, appeared on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, and "Ligeia," science fiction, appeared on the Journey Into... podcast. In 2013, "The Mute Girl," dark fantasy, was published in eFantasy, and "This is Hollywood," a fantasy/horror short story, appeared online at FICTION on the WEB.

Lance & Ringo Tails is a collection of ten short stories about her pets. In December 2013, I published ebook and paperback editions.

In October 2011, Livinity won First Place in the Unpublished Fantasy Novel category at the RPLA (Royal Palm Literary Awards).


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