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#9. Robert Abernathy’s “Single Combat” (1955). A nameless man, in a nameless city, plants a bomb in a basement. The city, cloaked with a heady dystopian gloom of racial violence and pollution, attempts to prevent his desperate escape. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/06/02/short-story-review-robert-abernathys-single-combat-1955/
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10. Fred Saberhagen”s “Birthdays” (1976),. Bart, fourteen years old, awakes alone on a colony ship. The nature of the Ship isn’t entirely clear as Bart’s memories have been carefully edited. His task? Serve as the sole human parent to a squalling group of babies. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/05/04/generation-ship-short-story-review-fred-saberhagens-birthdays-1976/
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#11. Lisa Tuttle’s “Stone Circle” (1976). As the forces of fascism transform a near-future America, a nameless female narrator attempts to find meaning in the ashes. https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/09/08/short-story-reviews-lisa-tuttles-the-stone-circle-1976-and-grania-davis-new-way-groovers-stew-1976/
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#12. Clifford D. Simak’s “City” (1944). Cheap transportation technology gives humanity the opportunity to flee the cities for acred estates in the countryside. Effectively establishes the rest of the memorable series compiled in City (1952). https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/08/18/short-story-reviews-clifford-d-simaks-city-1944-ogre-1944-and-spaceship-in-a-flask-1941/
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Ed Emshwiller’s cover for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Robert P. Mills (January 1959). Illustrates Leiber's The Silver Eggheads. A hand squeezes a dropper into a metal container holding a brain. There are also other scenes behind it -- a pile of metal, people fighting in the distance, etc.
Burt Tanner’s cover illustrating “Painwise” for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Edward L. Ferman (February 1972). Illustrates the Tiptree story I cover in the review. In the bottom right there's an explorer in his scout ship about to go down to the alien surface. He's visibly decaying.
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