Saturday

Just a few freebies today as well as some news. The image is from the Sorcerer and the White Snake, which looks good, despite some rather weak CGI. Back tomorrow.






Audio Fiction
At Escape Pod: "Chandra’s Game" by Samantha Henderson. Science Fiction.
     "Chandra’s Game roots in the side of a barren asteroid moon like a tick.  Over the years we’ve burrowed deeper into rock and ice until poor Chandra is mostly Game.  We loop the twin wormholes, Gehenna and Tartarus, roundabout in a figure eight, ready to catch the freighters as they escape from hell’s dark maw.  We strip them of goods and drink their heat, load them up and send them into another hell.  It’s a profitable game, Chandra’s."

At LibriVox: "Tanks" by Murray Leinster.
    "Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932."  First Published in Astounding Stories of Super-Science No. 1, January, 1930

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "The Unwilling Trophy Wife" by Chad Stroup. Horror.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Things We Do for Love" by Ian Florida. Science Fiction/

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily"

• The Supreme Warrior by John Viril. Fantasy.
• Parallel Spirits by T.S. Welti. Paranormal Romance.

At Smashwords:

• "Thursday Night Game" by David Haywood Young. Weird. 11k.
• "Mingo and Marla's Excellent Apocalypse - The End Times holiday gift set" by Steven J. Nixall. SF. 49k.
• "Tales of the Airship Neverland Vol 1.5 : Fairy Dust Never Rusts" by John White. Steampunk. 38k.
• "Nightfall" by Eric Dulin. Science Fiction. 60k.

Other Genres
Audio at Radio Drama Revival: "A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.
Fiction at Online Pulps: "Nursery Crime" by Joe Archibald. Crime 1945. and "Gunman's Christmas" by Caddo Cameron. Western 1946.

Science News

• "Brown Dwarf Stars Could Host Earth-Size Planets, Study Finds" Space.com
• "Space bursts provide insight to 'theory of everything'" NBCnews
• "Florida Wants to Fight Disease With Genetically Modified Mosquitoes" ABCnews.
• "Apple's downward spiral accelerates" Japan Today.
• "Unlocking a Lake’s Bacterial Secrets, Beneath 20 Meters of Ice" Science Friday (Audio)

Genre Film/TV News

•  "‘Hobbit’ exclusive clip: Gandalf warns Saruman of a powerful evil"
• "'The Hobbit' is a safe kind of danger: Peter Jackson"
• "Andy Serkis talks Gollum reprisal for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 
• "Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is Getting a Sequel"
• "Star Trek Into Darkness" (Trailer)
• "Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer: Five Questions Raised"
• "‘Game of Thrones’ Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Ice vs. Fire"
• "‘The Sorcerer and the White Snake’ Trailer: Snake Women and Ancient Chinese ‘Inception’ Horns"