Apex, Classic SF, Comics, and More

E-Fiction
New Fiction at Apex Magazine:

"Gone Fishin’" by John R. Platt.
Brian was the first one to go, three weeks after I put in the dam. He came to me all excited one morning. “Dad,” he said, in his voice that was always too deep for his thin little body, “there’s something in the water.”

"When Thorns Are the Tips of Trees" by Jason Sanford
"For a moment I opened my eyes and glanced at the living room window where Brad’s father sat drinking a beer. As I shifted, the needle in my finger broke. I pulled the tip out of my skin and found another needle to impale myself on. “You’re really brittle,” I said."

"Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens" by Peter M. Ball.
“I know.” My heart beat, tick-tock, tick-tock, as I watched Jackson blink back tears. His face set, trying to hold back a shiver of fear. The Corvidae were bad news; both of us knew that. He put his hand on my shoulder, fingers wrapping across the scars. “But I’m going to take care of her,” Jackson said. “She didn’t deserve this, Randal.”

"Hideki and the Gnomes" by Mark Lee Pearson.
There were twelve moons in the night sky: one from this dimension, the others reflections of the eleven dimensions. One switched off like a computer monitor. On the blank screen, Hideki watched the Space Shuttle, Confronter, hurtling to Earth, out of control.



At Manybooks: "The Heads of Apex" by George Henry Weiss. From Astounding Stories October 1931.

"Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex."

In E-Book downloads HERE.



Also at Manybooks: "Raiders Invisible" by D. W. Hall, from from Astounding Stories November 1931.

"Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war."

Available HERE.




AlienSkin has its June/July 2009 issue of speculative fiction out with 34 flash and micro fiction stories and 8 poems.

Online HERE.


At Atomjack: "Thermopylae 1944" by Mark Laurence.

"Oh God, I'm back, Joe thought—for the thousandth or was it the ten-thousandth time—back in the Ardennes forest."

Online HERE.



Audio Fiction
At Beam Me Up: Episode #160 featuring "Star Mother" by Robert F. Young, read by CrystalWizard. And also more cool SF news and reviews.



Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.








Gaming
At Dark Realm Miniatures: Seeds of War, a free Science Fiction 6mm wargame. The PDF rules and several army guides are available for download.


Available HERE [via Freewargamesrules]




Video
At The Internet Archive: Two more episodes of Men Into Space

Men into Space - Episode 09 - "Edge of Eternity" (1959)
"A meteor strike takes out the reserve oxygen supply on McCauley's ship."

Men into Space - Episode 10 - "Burn Out" (1959)
"A new alloy holds the promise of an improved re-entry vehicle, but astronauts Gibson and Stark disagree during the first flight test."


And Here Comes Tobor - Episode 01 - "Tobor and the Atomic Submarine" (1957)
"a very short lived Sci-Fi television program .... It is about a crime fighting robot named Tobor and it is controlled telepathically by a little boy." - Likely related to the 1954 SF film Tobor the Great.



Comics
At Hairy Green Eyeball: A Tragg and the Sky Gods story "Spawn of Yargon" (1975). Even less historically accurate than 10,000 B.C. but a fun read.


Online HERE.





At Golden Age Comics: A pair of classic pre-code horror comics. Voodoo #2 (1952) and Witchcraft #6 (1955). Both are available in CBR download.



Voodoo #2 is HERE and Witchcraft #6 is HERE.








At Crosseyed Cyclops: some post-code suspense with Midnight Mystery "Astounding Supernatural Stories" and "Amazing Science-Fiction"




Seven issue for download HERE.





Other Coolness
(Flash) At MicroHorror: "My Beautiful Wife" by Rick McQuiston.
(Flash) At MicroHorror: "Ring of Teeth" by Rick McQuiston.
(Flash) At MicroHorror: "Blackout" by Suzie Bradshaw.
(Flash) At Flashes in the Dark: "You Think You Know Me" by Shells Walter.
(Flash) At 365 tomorrows: "Earthly Convalescence" by George Li.
(OTR) At Relic Radio: "Devil Island" from The Sealed Book.
(OTR) At Boxcars711: 2000 Plus - "The Giant Walks" (11-08-50)
(Pirate Adventure) At Manybooks: Captain Brand of the ''Centipede'' by Henry A. Wise.
(Podcast) At RevCast: Revcast Roundtable Episode 025 - The Phantom Menace Edition.
(Pulp) At Beat to s Pulp: "Six Bullets for John Carter" by Chad Eagleton.
(Pulp) At PulpGen: "Dead Heat" by Robert Leslie Bellem (1944)
(Pulp) At PulpGen: "Toole o' the Trolley: Fares Please!" by Charles Wesley Sanders (1919)
(Pulp) At Munseys: "Wings and Stars" by Dick Moreland, from Sky Fighters July 1935.
(Review + Link) At BestScienceFictionStories.com: "Scanners Live in Vain" by Cordwainer Smith.
(Serial) Enter Three Witches part seven.
(Serial) At Book View Cafe: The Textile Planet: Chapter Sixteen by Sue Lange
(Serial) At Book View Cafe: Dreamsnake chapter seven by Vonda N. McIntyre.
(Serial) At Book View Cafe: The Moon and the Sun Chapter 29 by Vonda N. McIntyre.