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E-Fiction
Byzarium has a new issue up with:

"Fists of Felt" by Nathan Crowder (Cross-Genre)
It had been a good show despite everything that could have gone wrong. Farmer Bob and the rest of the Golden Sun Farm cast had taught a valuable lesson about sharing and Penelope the Dun Cow had managed to learn Peep’s song in time without dropping too many notes. He doubted that their young demographic noticed the nervous cow puppet fall out of tune. But there was no way they hadn’t missed Peep.

"Never on a Birthday" by Patty Jansen (Sci-Fi )
They said in the corridors of the galaxy, if the galaxy had corridors, that no one could throw a birthday party as fine as Hermon Feyst.

"Puppet Strings" by Terry Ollila (Sci-Fi )
Sure, it sounded innocent enough. But if Tag had known how much trouble that little phrase would start, how it would eventually twist not only his life, but his mind, into something unrecognizably mutilated, he would have laughed and shown the girl, cute as she might have been, to the door the second the words had left her mouth.

Online HERE.


And the November issue of Aphelion is up featuring fiction by T. Richard Williams, Scott T. Barnes, Joshua L. Hamilton, E. S. Strout, Mary Brunini McArdle, Jeani Rector, Casey Callaghan, Ash Hibbert, K. A. Masters, Joel Doonan, and Kim Rush.




The fiction, along with poetry and more is HERE.






Audio Fiction
Chatterbox Audio has their two-part 2008 Halloween Show featuring horror stories by Robert Arnold, Tony Isbell, Marques Brown, Kyle Hatley, and Chris Davis. 55 and 63 minutes. Streaming and in MP3 download.

Part one is online HERE and Part two is HERE.





And also at Chatterbox Audio, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, performed by a full cast. 39 minutes.

An audio drama of the classic children's fantasy in which, "Rikki-Tikki the mongoose protects his adoptive family from a pair of evil cobras."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.





Music
Sci Fi Songs "Music inspired by Science Fiction and Fantasy" has a new dance club remix of the famous (infamous?) "Summer Glau" with lyrics by the definitely infamous John De Nardo. I personally prefer the original music by John Anealio, but tastes vary.


The new mix is in MP3 format HERE. And don't miss the recently posted "Lonesome October Night" based on Roger Zelazny's "A Night in the Lonesome October " online HERE.





Comics
The Horrors of it All has a pair of very odd stories from Weird Mysteries #9. First is the extremely zany "The Garcon" featuring a very slow restaurant. Second is "Dream" featuring some very interesting art.


Both are online HERE.







And Cool-Mo-Dee has Out of the Night #11 and #12 available in CBR format, through rapidshare.


Cool pre-code horror available HERE (#12) and HERE (#11).










Other Cool
Variety SF has a review, and link to a free online version of, Laurence M Janifer's "Wizard" from Astounding Science Fiction, May 1960.


The review and link are HERE. And a review and link to Anil Aggarwal's "The New Antibiotic" (flash fiction) is HERE.






A trilogy of Star Trek posts as Nostalgic G has a pair of posters from the upcoming J.J. Abrams Trek film HERE and three goofy promos from when G4 began airing episodes of the original Star Trek HERE.

And "My Star Trek Scrapbook" has a pair of newspaper articles from 1977 focusing on the production difficulties of the then upcoming first Star Trek movies HERE.







Spiral Galaxy Reviewing Laboratory reviews Thomas More's Utopia (1515) and discuses Science fiction's "historical connection with Utopian literature."


The review is online HERE. Free e-book and audiobook versions are here.








Locus Online has its October issue for free online reading. It looks like a great issue with Ursula Le Guin, Frederick Pohl, and Tobias Buckell. Unfortunately it's in a flash format, which is about half as user friendly as Windows Vista.


Still, regardless of format, a free high-quality, online mag is cool. Avalable online Here. [via SF Signal]





The eleventh SFFaudio podcast is up, rounding up the news from the world of SF and fantasy audio.

"The SFFaudio Podcast #011 - in which our desperate heroes attempt to display the manliness and fortitude, listing all the recent arrivals, and some recent listens."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



And StarShipSofa has up their eighth. Engine Room podcast. "This week Tony talks you through his trip to the French science fiction convention Utopiales Join Tony has he tell all about his time over there."

In MP3 HERE.