Diverse Additions

E-Zine
John Purcell's fanzine Askance has a new issue out, number nine. This issue features numerous fandom articles, including a good sized article by Greg Benford and a really cute cover. Available for download in PDF format Here.




Audio
Well Told Tales has a new episode of its podcast with an amusing story, "Sentience Stigmata" written by Fred Ollinger, read by Eleiece Krawiec. Available streaming or in an 18 minute long MP3 Here.


Comics
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has up four remade golden age SF comic classics originally intended for the never published EC 3-D #3. These are "The Spawn of Venus," "The Planetoid," "Child of Tomorrow," and "Slave Ship" Featuring art by Wally Wood, Al Williamson, and other worthies, these stories are 1950's comic book sci-fi at its best.






Pulp Fiction
Munseys has added a few pulp fiction stories recently. "Nitroglycerin News" by J. J. des Ormeaux, "Reverse English" by Hamilton H. Craigie, and "Fantomas" by Marcel Allain

Other
In anticipation of Guillermo del Toro upcoming movie adaptation of The Hobbit, here is a collection of authentic Old English riddles of the kind that inspired the famous riddle game. Don't worry, there are Modern English translations and the answers are not shown on the same page.

An example is below.


#81
Shunning silence, my house is loud
While I am quiet: we are movement bound
By the Shaper's will. I am swifter,
Sometimes stronger--he is longer lasting,
Harder running. Sometimes I rest
While he rolls on. He is the house
That holds me living--alone I die.

The riddles are at the bottom of the page Here.