Geoff Ryman Audio, Scott Sigler Audio, 1984, Sci-Fi Horrors, Seventeen, and More.

Happy New Year!

E-Fiction
Project Gutenberg has "Junior Achievement" by William Lee. Illustrated by Schoenherr. Analog Science Fact & Fiction July 1962.

"Fallout is, of course, always disastrous— one way or another"



Online HERE.



And 365tomorrows has a flash SF/humor story "The Robot Whisperer" by Brian C. Baer.

"Robots love me. As much as robots can love. And in a plutonic sense, of course. Something about my chubby little baby face sets off their simulated paternal instincts and they all bend over backwards to answer my questions. That sort of thing comes in handy with my job."

Online HERE.


Audio Fiction
StarShipSofa has a new episode of Aural Delights out, number 57, featuring,

Poem: "Fifty Cents" by Mark Rich.
"Blinded By The Light: Part 1" Jetes de Vries
Fact: Science News by JJ Campanella
Main Fiction: "Film-Makers of Mars" by Geoff Ryman.
Beardie Book Review: Sean Keogh.
Serial Part1of 3: "Temptation" by David Brin.

Narrators: Julie Davis, Diane Severson Geoff Ryman

Available in MP3 download HERE or right click to save the MP3 HERE.



Part four of Contagious is up at Scott Sigler's cool website.

"Who or what is behind all of this, anyway? In Episode #4, you find out. Also revealed, how Perry managed to survive the rot. Meanwhile, President John Gutierrez has to make the first of what may be many difficult decisions .."

In MP3 download is HERE though you might want to check out the whole website for more freebies HERE.






Video
Available streaming at FreeMoviesFoundOnline.com, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984).

"After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. " - IMDb.

Online HERE.





Art
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has a gorgeous gallery of Berni Wrightson's art. Wrightson is among the best line artists since Virgil Finlay.



Online HERE.









Comics
The Horrors of It All concludes a kick butt week of sci-fi horrors with some very ugly beings in "The Metamorphosis of the Gkmloooms" from Worlds of Fear #3.


Online HERE.






Pappy's Golden Age Comics has some fun, cartoony adventures of Cosmo Cat from Cosmo Cat #8, August 1947.



Online HERE.




And Cool-Mo-Dee offers up another helping of Grimm's Ghost Stories (number 21). What's cooler than ghosts? Ghosts with swords and armor!



In CBR format HERE.






Other Cool
BestScienceFictionStories.com reviews and links to a free online copy of Larry Niven's "Neutron Star."

"'Neutron Star' is a 1966 science fiction short story by Larry Niven. It is about a man sent to investigate the mysterious deaths of two space explorers who were studying the galaxy’s only known neutron star."

Online HERE.


And My Star Trek Scrapbook has a scanned article (though not quite complete) from 1979 about Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I can understand Frederick's difficulty in buying a Seventeen magazine.


Online HERE.