Black Cat Weekly #154

This issue, we have original mysteries by Albert Tucher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and James Blakey, plus a modern tale by SJ Rozan (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). For our mystery novel, we have a Golden Age tale set in the Canadian Northwest Territories, The Long Arm of the Mounted, by James French Dorrance. Rounding out the section is a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.

We also have one of Norman Spinrad's occasional "Norman Spinrad at Large" columns-wherein he talks about when (not if) we will find life elsewhere in the universe.

On the science fiction & fantasy front, we have an original collaboration by Paul Di Filippo & Claudio Chillemi, a tale by British fantasy master John S. Glasby, and classic space opera by Nelson Bond (the original version of "Honeymoon in Bedlam," which he later rewrote as a Lancelot Biggs story for Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman), plus tales by William Campbell Gault and Edmond Hamilton. Fun stuff!

Here's the complete lineup- Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: "The Bottle Blonde," by Albert Tucher [Michael Bracken Presents short story] "The Fatal Founders Day," by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] "New Day Newark," by SJ Rozan [Barb Goffman Presents short story] "The Five People You Meet in Atlantic City," by James Blakey [short story] The Long Arm of the Mounted, by James French Dorrance [novel]

Nonfiction: "Norman Spinrad at Large: Life As We Don't Know It?" by Norman Spinrad

Science Fiction & Fantasy: "Maximinus Thrax and the Gates of Chaos," by Paul Di Filippo and Claudio Chillemi [short story] "When Darkness Falls," by John S. Glasby [short story] "Honeymoon in Bedlam," by Nelson S. Bond [short story] [short story] "The Woman Obsession," by William Campbell Gault [short story] The Invisible Master, by Edmond Hamilton [short novel]