This is the October 2004 update of my New Year's Resolution.

QUICK STATS:
   STARTING SF-POINTS^©: 297
   SF-POINTS^© EARNED THIS MONTH: 37 (QUOTA: 31)
   YEAR-TO-DATE SF-POINTS^©: 334 (YTD QUOTA: 305)

PREVIOUS MONTHS: Jan   Feb   Mar   Apr   May   Jun   Jul   Aug   Sep  

DATE READ	STORY	AUTHOR	YEAR WRITTEN	SOURCE	RATING	TYPE	POINTS	YTD POINTS
10/07/04	"The Battle of Long Island"	Nancy Kress	1993	The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry N. Malzberg		SS	1	298
10/08/04	"The Man Who Came Early"	Poul Anderson	1956			NV	2	300
10/09/04	"Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket"	James Tiptree, Jr.	1972			SS	1	301
10/10/04	"Anachron"	Damon Knight	1954			SS	1	302
10/10/04	"On the Nature of Time"	Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg	1981			VI	0	302
10/10/04	"A Little Something for Us Tempunauts"	Philip K. Dick	1974			NV	2	304
10/11/04	"Ripples in the Dirac Sea"	Geoffrey A. Landis	1988			SS	1	305
10/11/04	"Hall of Mirrors"	Fredric Brown	1953			SS	1	306
10/13/04	"3 RMS, Good View"	Karen Haber	1990			SS	1	307
10/13/04	"Time Trap"	Charles L. Harness	1948			NV	2	309
10/17/04	"Brooklyn Project"	William Tenn	1948			SS	1	310
10/19/04	"Timetipping"	Jack M. Dann	1975			SS	1	311
10/19/04	"The Chronology Protection Case"	Paul Levinson	1995			NV	2	313
10/20/04	"Allamagoosa"	Eric Frank Russell	1955	SCI FICTION		SS	1	314
10/23/04	"Hawksbill Station"	Robert Silverberg	1967	The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time edited by Barry N. Malzberg		NA	4	318
10/24/04	"Time Travelers Never Die"	Jack McDevitt	1996			NA	4	322
10/27/04	"A Writer's Life"	Eric Brown	2001	Infinities edited by Peter Crowther		NA	4	326
10/28/04	"The Human Front"	Ken MacLeod	2001			NA	4	330
10/30/04	"Park Polar"	Adam Roberts	2001			NA	4	334

KEY:VI=Vignette (.25 points), SS=Short Story (1 point), NV=Novelette (2 points), NA=Novella (4 points)

NOTES:

• Miscellaneous reviews follow

"Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell
[Read: 10/20/04]
[Rating: ]
[Source: SCI FICTION]

	Synopsis: Shore leave is cut short for a returning spaceship crew when the captain receives word of a surprise inspection. The dilemma faced is that there is a single unaccounted for military item: an "offog".
	Review: Light tale that reminded me a bit of Dilbert with it humorous gyrations to satisfy a ridiculously stringent bureaucracy.
	Note: Winner of the first-ever Hugo for Best Short Story.

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