The Great Unknown
Unknown
Edited by Stanley Schmidt
28 Sep, 2023
Big Hair, Big Guns!
Stanley Schmidt’s 1988 Unknown1 is an anthology of fantasy stories first published in Unknown magazine.
Reviews by Contributor: Schmidt, Stanley (3)
Lifeboat Earth!
The Sins of the Fathers (Kyyra, volume 1)
By Stanley Schmidt
22 Aug, 2021
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Stanley Schmidt’s The Sins of the Fathers is the first volume in his Kyyra duology. It was first published as an Analog serial in 1973 and came out in a mass-market paperback edition in 1976.
The starship Archaeopteryx is sent out with a three-man crew to a point 130 light-years from Earth, there to use modern astronomical equipment to intercept the wave front from the S Andromeda supernova. The ship returns with unexpected results.
Things did not go well on the ship. Dr. Donald Lewiston went mad and murdered skipper Dirk Borowski before he was subdued by ship’s mate Jonel Turabian. This is a major disappointment to Henry Clark, Lieutenant Commissioner of Grants, since the expedition falls under his purview.
Things will not go well for the Earth. Turabian informs his bosses that the core of the galaxy has exploded. A lethal wavefront of deadly radiation has spent 30,000 years creeping across the 30,000 light-years between the core and Earth. That wave front is at most twenty light-years from Earth.
The Days of the Old Schoolyard
Analog’s Children of the Future (Analog Anthologies, volume 3)
Edited by Stanley Schmidt
1 Jul, 2021
Special Requests
1982’s Analog’s Children of the Future is the third installment in the Analog Anthologies, all of which were edited by Stanley Schmidt. As one might guess from the title, all of the stories are drawn from the pages of Analog(some from the days when it was called Astounding). All of the stories involve children.