Category Archives: Robert A. Heinlein

Reading Report: December 2023/January 2024, from Jeff Baker. (January 19, 2024)

Reading Report for January 2024 (!!!!) Starting off with the last week in December, 2023, I finished reading James Moran’s story “A Canadian Ghost In London,” from his collection “Fear itself.” I THINK I’ve read all the stories in the … Continue reading

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Reading Report, December 2023 from Jeff Baker. (December 22, 2023)

First off, an addenda to last month’s report; I read a Sherlock Holmes story I hadn’t read before. “The Adventure of The Three Students.” I’m crazy about anything Arthur Conan Doyle wrote and this story is fun, even though the … Continue reading

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Reading Report for November 2023 from Jeff Baker. (A New Feature of This Blog!)

Reading Report for November 2023 from Jeff Baker. November 23, 2023 (Thanksgiving!) This, the first of these monthly reading reports, is being written in my Brother’s guest room, early in the morning of Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023. I can’t … Continue reading

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Getting Gnarly with All You Zombies. Short-Story Month, Day # 8

For Day #8 of Short-Story Month, here are some takes on two of the most popular themes in speculative fiction: Time travel and Immortality. For starters, two of the twistiest time-travel stories Robert A. Heinlein wrote: “By His Bootstraps” (1941) … Continue reading

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