Unrecorded Pulp Sci-Fi: Short Stories

[flavo5000]

Some folks may have noticed, I just split this into two separate threads, one for short stories and one for longer works. There were just too many to fit into the thread posts I have reserved, so here we are!

Part of the reason for having too many is that with the new year comes a whole slew of 1928 stories from Amazing Stories and Weird Tales that are now available to read, and those have been added to the list!

[HotMicSpeaks]

I am fairly new to this and trying to cobble together the info from various FAQs, wikis and threads etc. If I want to read one of these, what's he best way to "claim" it so I'm not doubling up work? I'd love to cut my teeth on some of these stories.

[flavo5000]

I am fairly new to this and trying to cobble together the info from various FAQs, wikis and threads etc. If I want to read one of these, what's he best way to "claim" it so I'm not doubling up work? I'd love to cut my teeth on some of these stories.

There's no real way to "claim" any of them. Just go and record one and the post it in the Short Sci-fi Collection based on the guidelines in the first post. Here's the latest open collection:
viewtopic.php?t=101007

If in the unlikely event you do end up recording one that's been recorded in this collection, we'll just carry it over into the next collection. There's no harm in recording multiple versions of a story.

[flavo5000]

I just thought I'd highlight a list of authors who currently have more than 7 stories unrecorded in case someone wants to whittle them down a little.

Alfred Coppel (8 unrecorded)
Basil Wells (12 unrecorded)
Bryce Walton (26 unrecorded)
Charles L. Fontenay (15 unrecorded)
Charles S. Wolfe (14 unrecorded)
David H. Keller (10 unrecorded)
Fox B. Holden (9 unrecorded)
Frank Belknap Long (9 unrecorded)
George O. Smith (19 unrecorded)
H. B. Fyfe (10 unrecorded)
Joseph Samachson (10 unrecorded)
Kris Neville (10 unrecorded)
L. J. Stecher, Jr. (8 unrecorded)
Mack Reynolds (8 unrecorded)
Miles J. Breuer (10 unrecorded)
Noel M. Loomis (9 unrecorded)
R. R. Winterbotham (11 unrecorded)
Randall Garrett (15 + 4 with Robert Silverberg unrecorded)
Robert Abernathy (8 unrecorded)
Robert F. Young (8 unrecorded)
Robert Moore Williams (11 unrecorded)
Robert Silverberg (10 + 4 with Randall Garrett unrecorded)
Roger D. Aycock (12 unrecorded)
Stephen Marlowe (23 unrecorded)
Winston K. Marks (17 unrecorded)

[flavo5000]

I also just did another fairly significant update that includes all the stories from Jan. through Aug. of 1929 Amazing Stories. Apparently Hugo Gernsback registered all of them using a 1927 copyright date (as reflected on the table of contents), so they're fair game!

[flavo5000]

The first post has been updated with a bunch of stories added to Project Gutenberg!

[flavo5000]

I would like to read:

Too Close to the Forest - Al Reynolds & Bryce Walton | 4,561 word count www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73356

Sure! Have at it! I'll remove it from here once it's posted in the sci-fi collection.

[Kitty]

maybe this is the right thread where I will reach the most sci-fi brains we have on this forum.

A friend of mine is looking for the titles of two stories he remembers reading but can't find anymore. Maybe someone here knows which ones he means.

Here is a bit of a synopsis from what he recalls:

there are two short SF tales that I need identification of, by American writers, probably in the 1940s to 1950s, in the main popular pulp magazines. One is about a small American town where a strange alien device appears, and the townsfolk can't work out what its purpose is—if I recall aright—but at the end it is a little girl's innocence, or laughter, which is the solution.

The second tale concerns a remote American diner, which a man pulls his car into one night for something to eat, and he and the diner owners become trapped in the diner by an alien forcefield, and they must solve the puzzle of how to get out, which in the end turns out to have been an alien race's test of human intelligence.

Anything rings a bell ?

thanks in advance for any pointers

Sonia

[Summerread]

I would like to read "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Heir Apparent". I would also like to post my recording in 7 different sections if possible.

[flavo5000]

I would like to read "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Heir Apparent". I would also like to post my recording in 7 different sections if possible.

You should be able to just record it and then submit it to the current active Short Sci-fi Collection here:
viewtopic.php?t=102362

Just follow the instructions in the first post around how to name the file, etc.

As far as recording it in 7 sections. This story is just a little over 4,000 words which for most people would translate to around 30 minutes. I don't really see a reason to break it up into multiple sections for a story that short. Typically stories that will run more than 74 minutes are launched as individual solo projects and constitute multiple sections. If you are wanting to break it up just to take breaks between recording sessions, you should be able to just stop or pause the recording and then start recording again once you're ready to continue, if you're using Audacity or other major audio recording tools.