This is the October 2006 update of my New Year’s Resolution to (almost) read a short story a day.


QUICK STATS:

   STARTING SF-POINTS©: 376

   SF-POINTS© EARNED THIS MONTH: 40 (QUOTA: 31)

   YEAR-TO-DATE SF-POINTS©: 416 (YTD QUOTA: 304)

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DATE READ YEAR WRITTEN STORY AUTHOR SOURCE RATING TYPE POINTS YTD POINTS
10/02/06 2006 “Mid-Death” Alan Dean Foster Forbidden Planets edited by Marvin Kaye NA 4 380
10/03/06 2006 “Walking Star” Allen M. Steele NA 4 384
10/05/06 2006 “JQ211F, And Holding” Nancy Kress NA 4 388
10/07/06 2006 “Rococo” Robert Reed NA 4 392
10/08/06 2006 “Kaminsky at War” Jack McDevitt NA 4 396
10/10/06 2006 “No Place Like Home” Julie E. Czerneda NA 4 400
10/15/06 1997 “Words and Music” William Sanders Isaac Asimov’s Halloween edited by by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams NV 2 402
10/17/06 1997 “Beluthahatchie” Andy Duncan SS 1 403
10/22/06 1989 “Renaissance” Nancy Kress SS 1 404
10/23/06 1995 “Dikduk” Eliot Fintushel SS 1 405
10/24/06 1992 “Pickman’s Modem” Lawrence Watt-Evans SS 1 406
10/24/06 1992 “Thorri the Poet’s Saga” S. N. Dyer & Lucy Kemnitzer NV 2 408
10/25/06 1987 “He-We-Await” Howard Waldrop NV 2 410
10/26/06 2000 “The Shunned Trailer” Esther M. Friesner SS 1 411
10/27/06 1993 “The Country Doctor” Steven Utley SS 1 412
10/28/06 1997 “The Golden Keeper” Ian R. MacLeod NA 4 416

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

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