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Saturday Night Science Fiction Double Feature: Applied Science Episode 5

1954. America has survived a World War and a Martian invasion, but now new threats emerge from within: nuclear mutations, government cover-ups and the dangers of...Applied Science!

Missing persons, mutilated corpses, eerie lights & strange noises - no mystery is too weird for the Science Investigations team! In Episode Five: Blood and Steel, a training exercise goes awry with deadly consequences when a saboteur strikes!

Saturday Night Science Fiction Double Feature: Uvlechenie

An asteroid miner discovers more than she's bargained for - in space and in her heart - in DeAnna Knippling's Uvlechenie...

Anechka pressed the steering collar of the Uvlechenie toward the floor while leaning back in the seat. The Uvlechenie settled onto the asteroid, (650) 2003 RKN, just the way she liked it, slowing the rotation and leaving the valuable dust mostly unshaken.

Sunday Mystery - The Summer Mr. H Drove Alex Santillanas Around

Cheating spouses, dog fights, and a pair of bullying cops turn up the heat for a summer school teacher, in Jen Conley's The Summer Mr. H Drove Alex Santillanas Around. School may be out for the summer, but some guys still need to be taught a lesson. And a kid with a shady brother may be the one to help Lloyd teach it.

Lloyd’s most interesting student was Alex Santillanas, a freshman who had failed English, Algebra I, and PE. “I did pass my electives, Computers and Spanish I,” he had explained the first day.

Saturday Night Science Fiction Double Feature: Applied Science Episode 4

1954. America has survived a World War and a Martian invasion, but now new threats emerge from within: nuclear mutations, government cover-ups and the dangers of...Applied Science!

Missing persons, mutilated corpses, eerie lights & strange noises - no mystery is too weird for the Science Investigations team! In Episode Four: Fire From Space, a space-suited killer test tests the forensic skills of Dr. Danielle Taylor.

Saturday Night Science Fiction Double Feature: Above Snakes

A three days ride through lava desert thick with Martian lions and cyclones brung Choppy and me to the meeting place, and by the end of it I was considerable nettled. It weren’t that I begrudged Choppy as a pardner, it’s jest the sloshing sound he made when he moved.

Sunday Mystery - The Ghost Writer by Will Jaeger

A police detective turned reporter investigates a string of arsons with the help of a mysterious informant in Will Jaeger’s The Ghost Writer, the first novella in Exter Press’ “First Encounters” series. But even with inside help, this former cop may not have a chance against a firebug armed with super-sophisticated incendiary devices, the likes of which Earth has never seen.

Saturday Night Science Fiction Double Feature: Applied Science Episode 3

1954. America has survived a World War and a Martian invasion, but now new threats emerge from within: nuclear mutations, government cover-ups and the dangers of...Applied Science!

Missing persons, mutilated corpses, eerie lights & strange noises - no mystery is too weird for the Science Investigations team! In Episode Three: The Spider Strikes, a series of giant spider attacks perplex Science Investigator Gwen Montgomery and her new partner, Ray Murdock.

Saturday Night Science Fiction Double Feature: Field Study

Subjects exhibit both testiness, and a reduced need for thermal insulation following intake of nutrition,” I noted in my personal recorder, as the subjects began shedding various layers of insulation. Oddly, this only seemed to cause their testiness to increase, and they soon began wrestling with renewed vigor, employing methods of combat that seemed comically inefficient.

Sunday Mystery - The Queer Quintet by David Cybulski

I've always thought "Those Meddling Kids" would be a great name for a punk band. If only I had the chops...

Enjoy David Cybulski's tale of mystery-solving cartoon teens from a different perspective The Queer Quintet or The Case Of The Chateau Specter, only at Big Pulp.

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