E-Fiction
At Manybooks, "Medal of Honor" by Mack Reynolds, from Amazing Science Fiction Stories November 1960.According to tradition, the man who held the Galactic Medal of Honor could do no wrong. In a strange way, Captain Don Mathers was to learn that this was true.
In free e-book formats HERE.
Also at Manybooks, "Lease to Doomsday" by Lee Archer, from Amazing Stories September 1956.The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical: ''Because we live here.''
In free e-book formats HERE.
At QDII, "Super Salesman of Space" by Tom Alexander, originally published in Planet Comics #10, Jan. 1941.A weak attempt to futurize a dumb cliche, wrapped around a fight scene set in space. It had a Martian space pirate - it should have been better.
Online HERE (Have your popcorn ready to throw at your monitor).
At Space Westerns, "Her Day in Court" by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt."People often ran to the West to be free from confrontation, to escape their old lives, only to discover that it’s the confrontation that sets them free."
Online HERE.
At Fantasy and science Fiction, Charles Coleman Finlay's 2002 short story "We Come Not to Praise Washington.""THE ASHEN SKY QUICKENED toward sunrise, skipping shards of slate-gray light across the Schuylkill River. The little skiff carried three men, one rowing, one steering, and one bailing water as fast as he could to keep it afloat."
Online HERE [via SF Signal]
Also at Space Westerns, Tom Godwin's classic hard sf story "The Cold Equations" first published in Astounding Magazine in 1954.“The Frontier is a strange place – and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the other side of a simple door marked ‘No admittance’ – but it is always deadly dangerous.”
Online HERE. (Also available as an X Minus One audio adaptation in MP3 (right click to save))
And At Golden Age Comic Book Stories The Illustrated Tarzan Book No. 1 (1929).Tarzan of the Apes retold and heavily illustrated (ten illustrations per page)
Available in JPEG scans HERE.
Audio Fiction
StarShipSofa's awesome podcast Aural Delights has its 53rd episode of audio-fiction up with:Editorial: "Tony C Smith"
Poetry: "An Eccentric In Orbit by Laurel Winter"
Flash Fiction: "Conspiracy Of Dentists" by Jay Lake
Fact: "Movie Talk" by Rod Barnett
"The Sofanauts Awards" by Mark Bormann
"Deadnauts" by Ted Kosmatka
Narrators: Kate Baker, Diane Severson, Paul Caggie
More on this podcast and the Sofanaut Awards is at SFFaudio HERE.
Available HERE or directly in MP3 (right click to save).
Escape Pod has another ultra-short audio-story up "Hoarding Colored Rags" by Jared Axelrod, read by Mike Swirsky. 2 minutes."I remember your touch, your taste, the way your mouth curled slightly when you said my name."
Available streaming and in MP3 download HERE.
Video
At Crosseyed Cyclops, the 1949 serial Batman and Robin."Prof. Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor vehicle within 50 miles (!), is stolen by The Wizard, black-hooded mastermind, and his gang. Batman and Robin (who drive about in a standard convertible) must prevent the Wizard from obtaining diamonds, needed as fuel for the device, and rescue magazine photographer Vicki Vale from periodic perils." -IMDB
Good serial-style, campy fun. And since it wasn't directed by Joel Schumacher, it doesn't totally suck (Hurray!!!!!).
In 15 high quality MPEGs (one for each chapter) HERE (expect medium long download times.
Gaming
World of Thule is a new blog by Scott of the Wilderlands OD&D blog. This new "weird fantasy" world, influenced by early Mars maps looks interesting. Online HERE.Curmudgeons and Dragons has a cool new "old school" drawing up "Negotiations" up HERE.
and Jeff's Gameblog has an amusing post "The Magical Graffiti of Samehz the Lesser" featuring three less than overwhelming D&D spells HERE.
Art
At Trixie's Treats, a cool gallery of Hammer films covers online HERE.And a PG-13ish pulp/horror gallery by Fastner and Larson. Online HERE.
Comics
At The Horrors of it All, a vampire story "One Door from Disaster" from Web of Mystery #27.Another cool comic-book horror story.
Online HERE.
Diversions of the Groovy Kind has a B&W comic "The Fury of the Femizons," a post-apocalyptic story of a a band of warrior women.Online HERE.
At Crosseyed Cyclops, more cool horror comics and magazines in CBR/CBZ format.Journey into Mystery #19 is HERE, Journey into Unknown Worlds #55 is HERE, Journey into Mystery #8 is HERE, and more Famous Monsters of Filmland are HERE.
Hairy Green Eyeball has some classic Charlton horror with Midnight Tales #3.Available for online reading HERE.
Golden Age Comics has a few more classic horror comics available in CBR/CBZ format.Strange Mysteries #8, Strange Mysteries #5, Mysteries Weird And Strange #1, Mysteries Weird And Strange #4, and Mysterious Adventures #16.
Other Cool
Dark Worlds has a cool post on "Winged Women (and Men)" featuring a gallery of classic art.Online HERE.
(note for gamers - The AD&D "Winged Folk" article from Dragon 51 is HERE, scroll down to page 21 there.)
And Vinnie Rattolle's Records has the pressbook for An American Werewof in Paris available in PDF and JPG downloads HERE. [via Monster Rally]Also there, the comic book adaptation of Disney's The Black Hole (it's probably far less painful to read the comic than to watch the film) in PDF and JPG formats HERE.
Posts
2 comments:
So here's a question: everyday there seems to be a huge number of new blogs uploading entire issues of free pre code horror. Is this sort of thing a potential threat to blogs like mine (and Pappys) that post one story at a time? I try to make the scans large and clear, and straight, and I clean them up with correct color/contrast etc... so it appears as it did when it originally hit the news stands. But do people appreciate this sort of thing or do they prefer just anything, pre code quantity over quality? A few things I've seen on some of the other blogs just seem to be low rez, ugly, faded brown, haphazardly crooked scans. I'm also not really a fan of the CBR format, and I particularly loathe anything in pdf... and I'm not critiquing others way of doing things or saying my way is perfect, I'm just stating my preference and interest in whether or not THOIA is worthy of continuing into 2009 with so many other blogs doing the same thing or making entire issues available all at once. I mean, why would you want to just read one story on my blog when you can read the entire issue somewhere else? Any thoughts?
Ouch, you're making me think; it hurts.
Seriously, you raise some good questions. From my own perspective, I'd say no, they are no threat at all to the one story at a time blogs for many reasons. First the comments you guys make about them are important. When anyone reads something, they like to know other peoples opinions. This is extremely true of THOIA which has one of the best groups of commenting readers anywhere. Second there is scan quality - You and pappy are both outstanding. And there are other reasons.
I can't answer the quality vs quantity for anyone else but for me I want both (which is good for THOIA). I'll grab comics by the hundreds from many sources, but I'll likely never get time to read even half of them - it's just good to know I have them if I ever want to read them. I read the one story at a time blogs at nearly 100%. It's a collector versus reader thing.
Format is another issue. Some people only like online reading (it takes up no hard drive space), others may not want to get into all the various formats (Yes, PDF is horrible for comics, though if it's the only way I can get something cool, I'll take it and be grateful)
Personally, I think the various blog types actually complement each other and promote fandom in different ways. I'm very greatful to all the blogs/sites I link to and certainly hope you'll stick around.
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