Almost Friday

More cool fiction.

E-Fiction
*Updated* At Manybooks: "Vampires of Space" by Sewell Peaslee Wright, from Astounding Stories, March 1932.

Commander John Hanson recounts his harrowing adventure with the Electites of space."


In e-book downloads HERE and Online at Project Gutenberg HERE.



At Manybooks: "The Odyssey of Sam Meecham" by Charles E. Fritch (Troy Conway), from Fantastic Universe January 1954.

"Sam Meecham did not realize that his chance discovery of unlimited power would bring back that which he had lost eight long years ago."


In e-book downloads HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.





At Manybooks: "This One Problem" by M.C. Pease, Fantastic Universe March 1954.

"Piracy in the past has acquired the gaudy technicolor of high romance. In the present, piracy is as tawdry as tabloid headlines. But piracy in the far future, when presented as vividly as in this story, can be scary stuff."

In e-book downloads HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.






At Best SF Presents: "Return to Cockaigne" by Paul Di Filippo, from Interzone #163, January 2001

"On the high-tech bed centerpiecing the room lay a comatose man, hooked to various supplemental machines and assorted drips. The sheets neatly drawn up to his neck failed to conceal the lines of his wasted form: limbs like rope-wrapped poles, chest a set of wax-paper bellows."

Online HERE.


Audio Fiction
At PodCastle: Episode 60 "The evolution of trickster stories among the dogs of North Park after the Change" by Kij Johnson, read by Heather Lindsley.
"The cats mostly leave, even ones who love their owners. Their pragmatic sociopathy makes us uncomfortable, and we bore them; and they leave."

Streaming and in Mp3 download HERE.



Other Coolness
(Epic Poem) At Manybooks: The Æneids of Virgil, translated by William Morris.
(Flash) At Big Pulp: "What They Never Tell You" by Cecelia Chapman.
(Flash) At The Daily Cabal: "End of the Line: A Puzzle" by Susannah Mandel.
(Flash) At Every Day Fiction: "On/Off" by Glenn Head.
(Flash) At Everyday Weirdness: "My Name is Internal" by Jacques Barcia.
(Flash) At 365 tomorrows: "The Long Journey Home" by Patricia Stewart.
(Flash) At Flases in the Dark: "Gifts of Greene" by James C. Clar.
(Manga Serial) At Ikki: "Children of the Sea" Vol.1, Ch.8
(OTR) At ERBzine: Tarzan episodes 1-75+ [via Cool-Mo-De]
(OTR) At Radi Tales of the Strange & Fantastic: Suspense - "Return to Dust"
(Serial) At Tor: "Makers" part two by Cory Doctorow.