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#CurrentlyReading #TheSupernaturalReader #Octoberween, First story: The Angel with The Purple Hair - by #HerbPaul
It was between the dark and the daylight, when the folks up about Fiftyfifth and Fifth are accustomed to stir about in a spirit of restlessness, and she came walking into the dim-lit hush-plush of the Mabuhay Club, slim and lovely in a clinging business of gold lame, and she whipped the ghost of a smile over Craig Gordon’s new dinner jacket with its fresh carnation. Then she expertly folded her wings and slid gracefully into the upholstered corner where Craig puts strangers whom he hasn’t quite sized up, and as her beautiful head went by the carnation, Craig could see that her hair was a pale purple, and he could smell that it smelled of dew on spring roses. She smiled up at him, gently, and then he decided to take a breath.

An odd #Fantasy #Romance about an angel and test pilot, that perhaps for the time period, #1950s, feels like it could have been adapted into an original Twilight Zone episode.

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The #ShortStory can be found on Internet Archive. #Magazine #MagazineCover
#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction
https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v001n05_1950-12_AK/mode/2up

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Cory Doctorow Nov 21, 2023

If you habitually read Kritzer's short fiction, *Liberty's Daughter* might be familiar to you, as it is adapted from a series of stories that originally ran in #TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction. Kritzer's YA debut, *Catfishing on the CatNet*, was also adapted from a short story, "Cat Pictures Please," which won the Hugo Award in 2016:

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/19/setec-astronomy-kitteh.html

#LibertarianExit - buying a country, or an archipelago, or just a luxury bunker - has been in the air lately.

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Naomi Kritzer's "Catfishing on the CatNet": an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship | Boing Boing

Back in 2016, Naomi Kritzer won the Hugo award for her brilliant, endearing story Cat Pictures Please, in which an AI with an insatiable craving for cat pictures explains its view on the world and …

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Paracyclops Sep 15, 2023

What reading material do I happen to have with me at Fantasycon?
#fantasy #fantasyfiction #books #bookstodon #fantasycon #themagazineoffantasyandsciencefiction #alangarner #gerardmanleyhopkins #crackmagazine

Michael Frasca Sep 2, 2023

It's a slow-rolled thread of short #TwitteReviews of my favorite stories in the September/October 2023 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy