12/21/55 ****
Hey guys! How would you like to have an android that's an exact duplicate of yourself to go shopping with your wives or girlfriends while you go play golf with your buddies? But you know something's going to go wrong. This story is fun. More fun than shopping anyway. I wonder what Ray Bradbury's wife thought of his story?
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12/28/55 ***
More robots taking over peoples homes. This story has a nice twist though. The robots are full of information, and can tell you anything you need to know. Like, how to kill your wife without any worry of being caught. Because of these robots, a crime spree hits that can't be stopped.
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1/4/56 ****
I always knew this, now there's a story that proves it. Engineers rule the world. In this Robert Heinlein story the roads have become so crowded that the traffic can no longer move. So the engineers take over, creating rolling roads that move (like the rolling walkways at the airport, except these move at 100 miles an hour). The country is dependant on the roads, which only the engineers can keep rolling. Don't make us, I mean them, angry.
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1/11/56 ****
I love time travel stories, and this is one of the best.
A soldier, about to die, goes back in time to 1945 to prevent the war that leads to his death. Jack Grimes is believable as the boy who wakes up in 1945 and first prevents a single murder in his hometown, then tries to save the world.
From a story by H. Beam Piper.
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2/1/56 **1/2
Here's Apollo 13 with a little twist. The story is told as if it is a news report describing how an astronaut is stranded in orbit around the Earth. Millions of dollars has to be raised in a hurry to send another rocket ship up to save him. I didn't think the story was that good at first because we didn't get too much information or drama about the actual astronaut that was stranded. But at the end of the story, we find out why. Clever idea by James Gunn.
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2/8/56 ***
This is a story that I could imagine would be a good Star Trek episode.
Captive Earth people contemplate how to escape from chlorine-breathing alien captors.
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2/15/56 ****
The planet New Delaware in the year 2204 is being contacted for the first time in 200 years. It is still an Earth colony so it won't have to be reconquered, but the people will have to be civilized. This means they will have have to have jails. But that also means they have to have crime, so the citizens hire someone to be a criminal and prepare to show the Earthlings how civilized they can be. The actors are delightful, giving it a real Mayberry R.F.D. feel. This is a very funny, thoughtful story by Robert Sheckley.
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2/22/56 **
Have you ever been at work, then forgot how to do the most basic thing: like figure out how to turn on your space ship and leave a planet strewn with junk from an alien machine. I know I have, but wasn't convinced that the characters in this story didn't just have one too many space cocktails.
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2/29/56 ***1/2
Top this one. We've not only finished World War III, we've also had three atomic wars and the Earth is now red radioactive dust. But this is the year 4195. So we're starting the world over, but underground where people may marry, but only after having their chromosome match approved. Imperfects are destroyed at birth or are put in cages down in the lower levels. Orin, an "imperfect", complains of his lack of rights, a violation of nature. Lois, the fiance of the director, falls in love with Orin. The story is as obvious as it seems, but the characters and story are well done.
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3/7/56 ***
Another good time travel story by L. Sprague DeCamp, this time about hunting dinosaurs.
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3/14/56 ***
I've had bad mornings, but not like this. Guy Berkhart wakes up screaming on June 15. He dreams of an explosion and something hitting his head. The same thing happens again the next day, and the next day, and the next. IEEEEEE. Only two people aren't affected by this "deja vu all over again." (Quoting Yogi Berra, not the writer of this story, Frederik Pohl.) A combination of Halloween III, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and Groundhog Day. You're led to think one thing, then another, then another twist.
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3/21/56 **
Some fireworks in Las Vegas are bothering some Martians so they send a ship to Earth to end the trouble. Next they'll be telling us to turn the stereo down. Sheesh.
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3/28/56 ***
This time it's not men that are destroying the world, it's a comet that's pulled the Earth away from it's orbit. Two children hear their parents talk about what it's like to have a sun and plenty of air to breath. Now they have to breath from buckets of air. Real depressing, effective imagery by Fritz Leiber.
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