{"id":195,"date":"2008-11-28T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T19:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-11-28T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T19:43:45","slug":"two-short-stories-with-thanks-to-baen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/two-short-stories-with-thanks-to-baen\/","title":{"rendered":"Two short stories, with thanks to Baen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s refreshing to find stories on the web. Thanks to Baen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/library\/\">great collection of sf online<\/a> (and via wikipedia), I was able to read two short stories online recently. No tracking down anthologies!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Murray Leinster. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/chapters\/W200506\/0743499107___2.htm\"><em>A Logic Named Joe<\/em>.<\/a> Astounding Science Fiction, March 1946.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/ia331341.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles\/Dimension_X_1950-07-01__13_ALogicNamedJoe.mp3\"> radio adaptation [mp3]<\/a>, aired in 1950.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Godwin. <a href=\"http:\/\/baencd.thefifthimperium.com\/13-TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD\/TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD\/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down\/0743498747__19.htm\"><em>The Cold Equations<\/em><\/a>. Astounding Science Fiction, August 1954.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both are stories of the conflict of humans and technology, and I recommend them both. They&#8217;re very different, and I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the difference of a decade, or just happenstance, that humans get the upperhand in one case, and technology dominates in the other.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered <em>A Logic Named Joe<\/em> from an article about the semantic web, from Issue 4 (September\/October 2008), page 23 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/nodalities\/pdf\/nodalities_issue4.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] of Talis&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/nodalities\/\">Nodalities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Folk singer and filk singer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xocolatl.com\/kathy\/\">Kathy Mar<\/a> recommended <em>The Cold Equations<\/em> during an interview [<a href=\"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/audio\/2006mar.mp3\">at 3:59 of my interview, MP3<\/a>]. Kathy also mentions that there&#8217;s a song based on the short story. Know any more? The closest song that I can find is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filker.com\/songs\/TeenagePopsicleGirl.html\">really pretty different<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s refreshing to find stories on the web. Thanks to Baen&#8217;s great collection of sf online (and via wikipedia), I was able to read two short stories online recently. No tracking down anthologies! Murray Leinster. A Logic Named Joe. Astounding Science Fiction, March 1946. There&#8217;s also a nice radio adaptation [mp3], aired in 1950. Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,50,51,45,46,47],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-reading","tag-49","tag-50","tag-astounding-magazine","tag-music","tag-sf","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}