Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) and More

Cool Sunday freebies.

E-Fiction
Apex Magazine has "Paying It Forward" by Michael A. Burstein, from Analog, September 2003 a nominee for the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

Online HERE [via SF Signal]









Audio Fiction
Beam Me Up has its 133rd podcast with "Report from the Rear" by Jack McDevitt, read by Paul Cole.

"BMU 133 coming right at ya! This week's story is Jack McDevitt's "Report from the Rear" a wry tale of future war reporting and who wags who in the process. Jack wanted BMU listeners to know that The Devil's Eye has just been released, and that Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt will be released in February. Looking forward to both! From the blog, I discuss the history channel's show Light Speed, Dave Tackett gives a scathing argument for the level of science education or lack there of, Juno is planned for Jupiter, Cassini looks at water vapor on Saturn's moon, Jupiter has a solid rocky core? and more on this week's podcast. Get ready to be abused and confused!"



Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



SFFaudio links to the four parts of the Maria Lectrix podcast of Donald E. Westlake’s "The Risk Profession" and adds a nice CD cover as a bonus. Very convenient.


Available HERE.






Gaming
Inkwell Ideas has an interesting, simple system for "Making Critical Hits More Interesting" online HERE.

And The Core Mechanic has a look around the blogs, finding a lot of
World Building and Alignment posts HERE.



Video
Divers and Sundry is streaming Warning from Space, "an American dubbed 1956 Japanese science fiction film." Really corny.

"UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic."


Online HERE.





And Jon's Random Acts of Geekery is streaming Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962).

"A U.N. space expedition to the planet Uranus discovers a bizarre world right out of their own heads, featuring places and people the crew members recall from childhood." - IMDb

Online, with fantastic posters and lobby cards, HERE [via Monster Rally]. (Viver en Tuscen has a few screenshots and links to a different source to stream it HERE.)



Art
Trixie's Treats has a pair of fantastic pulp-fantasy/horror galleries up.

"The New Pulp Art of Fastner & Larson " is HERE and a gallery by artist Sebastia Boada is HERE.

Must see, but rated PG-13ish








Comics
Golden Age Comics has added a couple of cool, over-the-top sci-fi comics in CBZ format.

Strange Worlds #1 is HERE and Strange Worlds #5 is HERE.









The Horrors of it All has "The Thing from the Sea" from Adventures into Darkness #6. Just a cool, well-drawn story. Online HERE.



And "The Groping Ghost" also from Adventures into Darkness #6. A cool story, but not really what the title implies. Online HERE.





Crosseyed Cyclops has several more comics and magazines up in CBR/CBZ format.

Amazing Fantasy issues 8-14 are HERE,
Adventures into Terror #27 is HERE,
Famous Monsters of Filmland #120,124 ,132 & 160 are HERE, and Journey into unknown worlds #42 is HERE.








Magic Carpet Burn has issue two of the comic book version of The Time Tunnel for online reading.




Available HERE.







Cool-Mo-Dee is up to issue 15 of the classic series Grimm's Ghost Stories. Cool cover.



Available in CBR format HERE.









Other Cool
Hairy Green Eyeball has a rare scan of the film version of the pulp character, The Spider, from Screen Thrills Illustrated #8, May 1963. And a small gallery of covers from the pulp magazine.



Online HERE.







Dark Worlds looks at the immediate post-Robert E. Howard sword and sorcery writing of Clifford Ball and Henry Kuttner.


The post, with a cover gallery, is HERE.








And at Well Medicated, 45 vintage illustrations of a space age tomorrow. Very cool illustrations that help prove the utter futility of near future prognostication.


Online HERE. [via Cool-Mo-Dee]