Quotes from Edward D. Hoch

He unrolled the paper and revealed a message, apparently in cipher: PMION CTRAD INGCA YDWEA LARTO IROAR RORSS EWERC EAAIR AKCCR EOVER BASES.

They talked for a time longer and Sine took him on a brief tour of the plant, past assembly lines where dungareed girls operating wire-wrap machines worked on computer circuits, the company's major product.

Actually I'd never planned a career in publishing, preferring the world of art.  There was always a sketch pad handy, though I soon learned that I was best with caricatures.  There was hardly a market for those unless one was a political cartoonist, an all-male world if there ever was one.  So it was publishing for me, at least for the time being.

found these things in Heuvelman's book, In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, and I suppose some similar account might have given Pike the whole idea

Comte de Saint-Germain

dreamy instrumental of an old song called Dancing On The Ceiling. The party was breaking up now

It was eight years since publication of The Riddle of the Sands, but people still read it. "Do you fear war too?

by John Updike; he, intent on a paperbound anthology of science fiction stories edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.

June, Nebraska

invasion titled The Riddle of the Sands. It became his most successful novel.

What I am suggesting, after all, is no more than Major Batjuschin suggested to Captain Redl in 1902." This brought a smile from Rand. "You mean Captain Redl, the archtraitor?

The Bootmakers of Toronto, copyright © 2006 by Edward D. Hoch.

Hans Stefan Santesson's science fiction-mystery anthology Crime Prevention in the 30th Century

It was like marble or quartz, but cut through to show the layers of black and white, with sometimes just a hint of red or brown. "What's this edge made of?" "Onyx. My first big play on Broadway was The Onyx Ring. The pool is one of my few luxuries.

She stood with her legs slightly apart, tightening the shimmery fabric of her floor-length formal. It was an appealing pose to Barney, giving just a hint of tomboyishness within the confines of the gown.

I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone." "It's no myth. I've studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.

Maddened by Mystery.