Black Cat Weekly #15

Black Cat Weekly #15

Title: Black Cat Weekly #15
Author: Janice Law, John M. Floyd, Hal Charles, Todhunter Ballard, Eleanor Cawood Jones, Larry Tritten, Nancy Kress, John Gregory Betancourt & Stephen Marlowe
Release: 2021-12-11
Kind: ebook
Genre: Mystery Short Stories, Books, Mysteries & Thrillers, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Short Stories
Size: 1195254
   Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #15—enjoy our holiday cat cover!

   The magazine is coming more sharply into focus, as our acquiring editors spread out through the mystery and science fiction fields and bring new stories to our lineup. This issue, we officially welcome Cynthia M. Ward to the editorial staff. She comes bearing a gift—Nancy Kress’s excellent science fiction story, “The Art of War.”

   Darrell Schweitzer was supposed to be back with his second acquisition this week (a comical Esther Friesner tale) but there were problems with the text and I’ve made a last-minute executive decision to push it back an issue or two, while it’s being fixed. I’ll slip in a replacement from my own backlist, another entry in my “Slab’s Tavern” series of fantasy bar stories.

   Barb Goffman and Michael Bracken have acquired a pair of original tales for us. First, Barb presents “The Importance of Being Urnest,” by Eleanor Cawood Jones. Then Michael selects “Romeo and Isabella” by John M. Floyd. Great stories, both. Thanks, everyone!

   Here’s the complete lineup:

Mysteries / Suspense / Westerns

“The Writing Workshop,” by Janice Law [short story]
“Romeo and Isabelle,” by John M. Floyd [short story]
“Secret Santa,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself mystery]
West of Quarantine, by Todhunter Ballard [novel]
“The Importance of Being Urnest,” by Eleanor Cawood Jones [short story]
“Dr. Kreener’s Last Experiment,” by Sax Rohmer [short story]

Science Fiction & Fantasy
“Serendipity,” by Larry Tritten [short story]
“The Art of War,” by Nancy Kress [short story]
“Well Bottled at Slab’s,” by John Gregory Betancourt [short story]
Forever We Die! by Stephen Marlowe [short novel]

More Books from Janice Law, John M. Floyd, Hal Charles, Todhunter Ballard, Eleanor Cawood Jones, Larry Tritten, Nancy Kress, John Gregory Betancourt & Stephen Marlowe

Naomi Kritzer, N. M. Cedeno, Hal Charles, Janice Law, A.R. Morlan, Malcolm Jameson, George O Smith, Hulbert Footner, Nicholas Carter & Otis Adelbert Kline
Janice Law, John M. Floyd, Hal Charles, Todhunter Ballard, Eleanor Cawood Jones, Larry Tritten, Nancy Kress, John Gregory Betancourt & Stephen Marlowe
Janice Law, Barb Goffman, Tom Larsen, H.K. Slade, Emilio DeGrazia, Elizabeth Zelvin, Gregory L. Norris, Vicki Weisfeld, Steve Liskow, Mark Troy & Michael Bracken
Janice Law, William Burton McCormick, Steve Janko, Henry T. Parry, Hal Charles, William Le Queux, Manly Wade Wellman, Charles L. Fontenay, Hannes Bok & William W. Stuart
Janice Law & Hal Charles
Arthur Conan Doyle, Janice Law, Barb Goffman, Mike McHone, Peter DiChellis, Rafe McGregor, J.P. Seewald, Rebecca K. Jones, Keith Brooke, Hal Charles & V.P. Kava
Barb Goffman, Josh Pachter, Janice Law, Steve Liskow, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Linda Niehoff, Tom Larsen, Stephen D. Rogers, Bruce Arthurs & John Bosworth
Janice Law, Eve Fisher, Joseph Walker S., Hal Charles, Robert Silverberg, Ron Goulart, Alan J. Wahnefried, Evelyn E. Smith & Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Janice Law
Janice Law
Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Hal Charles, Richard Helms, Murray Leinster, Dorothy B. Hughes, Jerome Bixby, Seabury Quinn, Malcolm Jameson & Nick Boddie Williams
Janice Law, Hal Charles, Gina Nelson, Ron Miller, Philip E. High, Harlan Ellison, Jack Williamson, Stephen Marlowe, Henry Slesar & James Hay Jr.
Janice Law, Tom Larsen, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Gordon Linzner, Hal Charles, Sam W. Pisciotta, Lin Carter, Philip E. High, Josephine Tey & Henry S. Whitehead
Marvin Kaye, Gary Lovisi, Victoria Weisfeld, Dan Andriacco, Janice Law, Arthur Conan Doyle & Michael Penncavage