Knock (1948) – Fredric Brown 🔗
<![CDATA[An opened door. There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There [...]
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Science Fiction For Telepaths (1977) - E. Michael Blake 🔗
<![CDATA[ The shortest sci-fi story ever. !--more-- ---- Well, you know what I mean.]]> [...]
A Pail of Air (1951) - Fritz Leiber 🔗
<![CDATA[A fireplace When a dark star pulls Earth away from the Sun, one isolated family struggles to survive in a frozen world. A Pail of Air is a [...]
Answer (1954) - Fredric Brown 🔗
<![CDATA[White shadows walking on black blocks. A very very short read. I don't share Brown's pessimism about AI, but this story dates back to 1954 [...]
On Cozy Sci-fi and Walking 🔗
<![CDATA[Two houses and red trees. !--more-- I recently started reading Becky Chambers, one of the leading voices of cozy sci-fi. As she neatly puts [...]
To the Sun (1931) - Clark Ashton Smith 🔗
<![CDATA[ I'd call that cosmic poetry. Saturne !--more-- Thy light is an eminence unto thee And thou art upheld by the pillars of thy strength. [...]
Something Else 🔗
<![CDATA[A multicolored being. In 2027 (I think), I’ll publish my autobiography, in English (I’m French but surprisingly, when it comes to writing, I [...]
Off-topic: A Side Project 🔗
<![CDATA[ The strange and fascinating world of early 20th-century French Catholic writers. !--more-- A while back, I started working on a second bl [...]
What's next? 🔗
<![CDATA[Sei - Ifeoluwase Taiwo (2026) Probably looking further. !--more-- Tons of great authors are Americans, but man, America isn't the only cou [...]
Everest (1953) - Asimov 🔗
<![CDATA[Mount Everest A very short story on humility, among other things. -- Perhaps you’ve read how Everest has now been climbed? But have you [...]