Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Cory Doctorow, Christopher Lee, and More

A very good morning to all!

E-Fiction
Beneath Ceaseless Skies has its fifth issue up with:

"The God-Death of Halla" by Tina Connolly.
"She swore as the world rocked around her. She kicked off the sandstone wall by instinct and thumped to the ground. The gold plate stuffed down her shift knocked her ribs and all her breath whooshed out. She gasped like a fish in the humid air."

"Precious Meat" by Catherine S. Perdue.
I have chosen them, the clever, the swift, the strong. I have taught them to read the moons, to know the warming pools, to know the prey. I have taught them what no other pack has known: to hunt together. They are my pack.

Online HERE.


From the Fast Forward 2 anthology, "True Names" novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow.

"There were only a finite number of computational cycles left in all of the universe that was timelike to Beebe. Every one of them, every single step in the dance of all those particles, was Beebe in potentia—could be a thought, a dream, a joy of Beebeself."

Available for PDF download HERE.





Gaming
The Society of Torch, Pole, and Rope has he Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua converted from Call of Cthulhu to 1st edition AD&D for any old school gamers out there.

Online HERE.



Audio Fiction
A new audiobook from LibriVox, The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Mark F. Smith 3 1/4 hours.

"Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him.

What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind.

Shutting themselves tightly up in Challenger’s house, they start to consider what may be done. But as their countrymen start to drop, will their oxygen last long enough to determine and implement a solution? "

In ogg and MP3 downloads HERE.


Clonepod has "How to Deal With Your Daughter and Her Crabs" by Brian Salyards, read by Leslie Ann Moore. It's not what you're thinking.


Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



Zombie Astronaut has a boatload of Christopher "Dracula, Saruman, Count Dooku" Lee readings of Poe and The Exorcist.

In Mp3 downloads HERE.



At Escape Pod, "The Way Before" by Anna Schwind Read by Ann Leckie. 3 minutes long.

"When Chasca turned eleven, her father took her to a ship farm, to choose her vessel. She stood on the observation deck, evaluating the herd. Chasca selected the farthest ship. It faced away from the others and bumped the edges of the corral. She understood."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


Also at LibriVox, an audiobook of Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, read by many readers. (A young readers version of the Old English epic). 2 hours.

"The brave warrior, Beowulf, comes to the aid of King Hrothgar when he hears that Grendel, a horrible monster, is terrorizing the inhabitants of Hart Hall. Beowulf heroically battles Grendel, the Water Witch, and a fierce dragon."

In ogg and MP3 HERE.


Video
At the Internet Archive, The Flying Serpent (1945). "Relic of an ancient terror born a billion years ago!" Monster movies are always cool.

"The demented archaeologist Dr. Andrew Forbes (George Zucco) discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl" - IMDb

In ogg, MPEG4 (iPod), and MPEG2 HERE.







Art
Trixie's Treats has a beautiful gallery of horror/fantasy drawings by my favorite pulp-era artist Virgil Finlay.




Online HERE.







Mundo Bocado has a cool cover gallery of the second volume of the Spanish language magazine SOS. (I'm not familiar with this magazine, but the covers certainly make it look good.)


Online HERE.









Comics
Fortress of Fortitude has a very impressive post-apocalyptic, “book-length thriller.” from Charlton Premiere #2.

"Children of Doom" is online HERE.





The Horrors of it All brings us "The Wig" from This Magazine is Haunted #14. Another tale of a deadly hairpiece (Shatner must be crapping himself right about now).

Online HERE.



Diversions of the Groovy Kind has a twisted Christmas story "A Slay Ride with Santa" from Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion #15.


Online HERE.







Monster Memories has part one of "Awake to Evil" from Dark Shadows #6. Vampire meets Mummy.


Online HERE.




And Crosseyed Cyclops has an eclectic mix of pre and post-code horror comics including Haunt of Fear and others.

Online HERE, HERE, and HERE.









Other Cool
BestScienceFictionStories.com reviews and links to a free online version of "Through Thy Bounty" by Lucy A. Snyder, about a chef who is forced to cook humans as gourmet meals for ruthless aliens.

The review and link are HERE.



SF Signal's Mind Meld asks "What can the SF industry do to weather a prolonged economic downturn? Will new authors have an even harder time breaking into the field?"

Read a few SF worthies' answers HERE (and add your own, if you like).


And, to end on a light not, Adventures in Nerdliness looks at Orion Slave Girls with three Star Trek videos.

Online HERE.