Short Story Reviews: David Ely’s “Court of Judgment” (1961), “The Last Friday in August” (1961), and “The Wizard of Light” (1962)

🫧 Open on Bubbles In 2019, I reviewed and adored David Ely’s science fiction thriller Seconds (1963) , the source material for John Frankenheimer’s similarly brilliant 1969 film . I did not know that Ely got his start in genre magazines under the editorship of Cele Goldsmith Lalli (1933-2002), known for “discovering” SF luminaries like Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Keith Laumer, Sonya Dorman, and Roger Zelazny (among others). 1 Before his writing career, Ely served in the Navy (1945-1946) and Army (19