Audio Fiction, Comics and More.

A very quiet day for e-fiction so far, but a little good audio-fiction to compensate.

Audio Fiction
StarShipSofa has another fantastic episode, number 51 of Aural Delights up featuring:

Poem: "Fading Signals" by Mikal Trimm.
Flash Fiction: "The Pilots" by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
New Titles: Charles Stross, Christopher Moore, Russell Kirkpatrick.
Main Fiction: "The Third Bear" by Jeff VanderMeer.
Fact: Fiction Crawler No 3 Matthew Sanborn Smith.

Narrators: Diane Serverson, Travis Kennedy, Mark Nelson

Available in MP3 (right click to save).



PodCastle has its 34th full-sized podcast up featuring "Clad In Gossamer" by Nancy Kress, read by Paul S. Jenkins. Rated R. 25 minutes.

“Tell me again,” I said. The shorter, older one said smoothly, “Garments in subtle colors like shaded sky, Your Highness. As finely spun and light to wear as spiderwebs. Yet warm, impervious to water, and impenetrable by stinging insects.” I nodded eagerly, as if I believed this nonsense. “And the magic…”

Streaming and in MP3 HERE.


Radio Tales of the Strange & Fantastic is now playing X Minus One: "Universe" based on a story by Robert Heinlein.

A generation ship has devolved into human/mutant factions. A good episode.

In MP3 HERE.





Video
CosmoBells has the unaired pilot for a sequel series to the 1980s superhero show The Greatest American Hero called The Greatest American Heroine.

"The pilot reveals that several years after the final episode, Ralph's secret identity was finally revealed to the public, resulting in his becoming a celebrity. This upsets the aliens who gave him the suit, and they charge him with finding a new hero to wear the costume and use its powers for fighting evil. He finds a young woman (Mary Ellen Stuart) who spends her time looking for lost kittens and teaching young children, and most of the episode deals with her learning how to use the suit under Bill Maxwell's guidance."

Available in a three-part rar file HERE. (***PG-13/R rated site***)



Comics
A pair of cool ones from Fortress of Fortitude. First, from Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror # 119 come a post-apocalyptic tale seemingly straight out of Gamma World "Weird City" is online HERE.

Then "Satan And The Devil-Bull" from Web of Mystery # 11. Online HERE.





And keeping with the Satan* theme, The Horrors of it All has another cool story from Black Magic Vol. 4 #6 (a very good issue).

"The Devil, You Say?" is online HERE.

*I can't read that name without hearing the church lady. Curse you, Dana Carvey!





And Cool-Mo-Dee has another issue, number three, of Grimm's Ghost Stories available for downloading.




In CBR format HERE.








Gaming
Dragonsfoot has a free adventure for Basic D&D (fairly easily convertible to other editions) "In Search of the Forgotten City" by RC Pinnell is available in PDF HERE.

James Maliszewski of Grognardia answers "a variety of questions about old school gaming" on the gaming podcast Midnight's Lair, episode 5. In MP3 HERE.

Gnome Stew lists 12 RPGs Every Gamer Should Play Before They Die HERE.

And The Core Mechanic has an epilogue to the series of cleric articles "[4E] Parish Priests" HERE.


Other Cool
"My Star Trek Scrapbook" has an interesting 1979 Saturday Evening Post article: "The New Voyage of Starship Enterprise"



Very cool scanned article HERE.