Djibril on Dec 28, 2011 12:58 PM | I'm particularly intrigued by 'Scrapheap Angel', since RJ Astruc and Deirdre Murphy are both excellent writers, but quite different. I really want to see what a collaboration between them will look like. Thanks for this helpful and provocative review....

Joel on Dec 28, 2011 10:26 AM | Definitely A Million Suns. Has the look of a great SF movie - rich and deep. That said, I think the other two would sell well if they're being specifically marketed to videogame or retro-sci-fi fans....

Paul (@princejvstin) on Dec 28, 2011 11:32 AM | There seems to be a weird theme with these new Silverberg covers....

Tinkoo on Dec 27, 2011 12:23 PM | I've read at least half the stories you specifically mention. Very good reads - & I'll have to look for the rest. Thanks for recos.Only, in my mind, Campbell's Astounding is not so much associated with happy outcomes as with much higher fraction of _interesting_ stories than almost any other editor. But I've seen several duds too from issues he edited....

Jamie Todd Rubin on Dec 27, 2011 1:46 PM | Tinkoo, I agree with you completely. But I wrote the post because I think the perception is that these stories had mostly happy endings with upstanding heroes and a general air of wholesomeness. This perception seems to occasionally accrue to folks who might never have even read any of the stories. I just wanted to make it clear that the Golden Age wasn't always golden, that there are all kinds of stories. Pan yes, plenty of duds, too. Even by some very famous writers. But in writing, at least, that is how you learn....

TW on Dec 19, 2011 10:46 AM | Nice discussion, but the next time I hear somebody say "I haven't read that, but I think (usually something derogatory)", I am going to scream.   IO Saturnalia...

Paul (@princejvstin) on Dec 19, 2011 12:18 PM | Kudos to Patrick, Jaym and this massive panel.   I have no chance at pulling out individual comments on this, except that I heartily recommend the entirety of this three part podcast to anyone remotely interested in fantasy....

Lou Anders on Dec 27, 2011 9:11 AM | This was a great podcast, but I can't believe that Scott Lynch wasn't even mentioned in the (too short) list of modern practicioners. I really want a part two to this, restricted to discussions of contemporary/current S&S writers, panelists comprised of same....

Cody on Jan 30, 2009 8:14 PM | that was fun. i hope they make another of what happens after you find the next group of survivors...

john on Sep 26, 2009 3:36 AM | i cant play. site isnt available...

John on May 2, 2010 3:30 PM | This game waz awsome. It taught me a valuable lesson...Girls aren't everything you can hold in a zombie invasion...

andi beres on Dec 26, 2011 9:09 PM | i figured it out :D  ...

James Dorr on Dec 25, 2011 12:19 PM | Very nice, thank you!  Lots of memories in some of those covers.  Best to all for the Holidays!...

DavidF on Dec 25, 2011 3:18 PM | Those made my day.Merry Christmas....

Greg L. on Dec 26, 2011 12:54 PM | Is he the Barsoomian Santa? And he was judging Rudolph for being "different"??...

Matte Lozenge on Dec 26, 2011 6:21 PM | @December 1951: Welcome to Helios Spaceport, where all the women are drop-dead gorgeous and all the aliens are spellbinding raconteurs. And that giant fractally melting Christmas fern? It really is shaped like that, it's not your eggnog. Merry Emsh-mas!...

Paul (@princejvstin) on Dec 26, 2011 8:08 AM | Every year I get optimistic, and every year, some movies fall flat. Sometimes painfully so.    But between this and the Avengers annd the Hobbit? Maybe 2012 will be a very good year....