Sail away on a methane-powered dirigible with TLS as we embark on a steampunk spy thriller/romance in this story. [Aggregate score: 7]
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We attempt to hold onto what we’ve got while it lasts during a review of this dreamily evocative short story.
[Aggregate score: 8.25]
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TLS taps the vein of “The Junky’s Christmas.” William S. Burroughs’ bittersweet tale of a down-on-his-luck addict during the holidays, and to determine whether he/they are filled with the Christmas spirit, or the Grim Reaper. [Aggregate score: 9.25]
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The Lost Signals sits down in a well-lighted studio to discuss Ernest Hemingway’s atmospheric vignette, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” Bring your own brandy, the service here is terrible. [Aggregate score 9.25]
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The Lost Signals try to discern who is real and who is not in their analysis of John W. Campbell’s (writing as Don A. Stuart) classic tale, “Who Goes There?” [Aggregate score: 8]
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Less Dickensian and more Poe-esque, The Signal-Man is a story of ghastly foreshadowing and we’re just the Signals to review it. [Aggregate Score: 7.33]
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The TLS crew cleans up their emotional refuse (and ponders re-evaluating their review scale) in Amber Sparks’ wonderfully bittersweet story, The Janitor in Space.
[Aggregate score: 6]
Published in American Short Fiction, 2014.
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TLS plays all the parts– past, present, and future– in a review of trope-making Robert A. Heinlein classic, By His Bootstraps
[Aggregate score: 9.25]
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They were built to serve man, but all they did was serve.. as a nuanced look at the development of AI and as a metaphor for the exploitation of workers. What lazy, good-for-nothing robots.
Aggregate Score: 8
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TLS investigates a strange murder with a famous detective duo. [Aggregate Score: 8.33]
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