Free Friday Audio Fiction

Some very good free audio fiction this morning, including the Jules Verne classic Around the World in 80 Days, now complete. I'm having some minor formatting issues this morning so if things look a bit off, sorry. 


Audio Fiction

• At Clarkesworld: "Stone Hunger" by N. K. Jemisin, read by Kate Baker.
"Once there was a girl who lived in a beautiful place full of beautiful people who made beautiful things. Then the world broke. 

Now the girl is older, and colder, and hungrier. From the shelter of a dead tree, she watches as a city—a rich one, big, with high strong walls and well-guarded gates—winches its roof into place against the falling chill of night. "






• At The Classic Tales PodCast: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Adventure.
Now complete: Parts ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, and NINE.
"Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of stringent and inflexible habits, proposes that he can circumvent the globe in 80 days.  He wagers half of his fortune to this effect. But are his motives really as straightforward as he would have you believe?  Jules Verne, today on The Classic Tales Podcast."

• At PodCastle:  "America Thief" by Alter S. Reiss, read by John Michnya. Fantasy.
"I looked around the table. Most of the people there weren’t paying much attention. Lansky looked a little embarrassed, and Siegel shook his head. “You want me to find out if Chaim Goldberg can turn lead into gold, or if he’s running some sort of scam,” I said."







• At Tales to Terrify: Episode No. 139: “His Pale Blue Eyes” by David A. Riley narrated by Antoinette Bergin and “Suicide Chef” by Bill Ferris. Horror.

In "His Pale Blue Eyes," a young girl must save her parents from zombies and in "Suicide Chef," "a chef finds a way to save his struggling restaurant, but with deadly consequences."

Thursday Fiction and Gaming

Some quite good free fiction and gaming items today, including new fiction from Yoon Ha Lee, who was recently published in Clarkesworld, a new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, one of the best 'zines published, with fiction and audio fiction, and complete RPG games. And more!

Today's illustration is for the latest issue of Aphelion.










@Tor.com: "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" by Yoon Ha Lee. [Science Fiction]

"Among the universe’s civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as the sailing of bright ships, and others as tunneling through the crevices of night. Some look upon their far-voyaging as a migratory imperative, and name their vessels after birds or butterflies."

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Bone Diamond" by Michael John Grist. [Fantasy]

"I do not know then that it will be the end of everything I know."

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "My Father’s Wounds" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Fantasy]

"It’s hard to believe he knows I’ll stab him with that knife. Even harder to believe he’s eager for me to do it. But that’s my father; he thinks the world of his precious daughter."

@Cosmos Magazine: "Love in Balance" by Liz Coley. [Science Fiction]
@Daily Science Fiction: "The Girl in the Wooden Dress" by Angela Rydell.
Now Posted: Aphelion Webzine #154. [Science Fiction and Fantasy]
@Free eBooks Daily:

"The Abandoned Edge of Avalon" by Eden Tyler.
"Storm World: Rise Of The Stormbearer" by Jonathan DeCoteau.
"Storm World: The Wave Dancer" by Jonathan DeCoteau.
"Storm World: Speaker Of The Gods" by Jonathan DeCoteau.

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Ink and Blood" by Marko Kloos. [Fantasy]
@LibriVox: "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Jules Verne, read by many readers [Adventure]


Fan Audio
@Pendant Productions: Episode 59 of Star Trek: Defiant.








@DriveThruRPG: "X-plorers RPG (FREE No Art Version)"

"Put on your space suit, charge your ray rifle, and flip ignition on an outer-space adventure! Imagine if the first RPG had been one of interplanetary adventure-rules-light, fast-paced, and inspired by a passion for science fiction. In X-plorers, you're part of a group of galactic troubleshooters on the look out for the next job-whether it be salvage, search, or rescue on an alien world."

@DriveThruRPG: "Dragon Brigade: Opening Salvo" from Margaret Weis Productions.

"Enter the swashbuckling fantasy world of Aeronne, where dragons and airships clash over floating continents, and where a quick wit or a swift blade can end a career or start a war. In the Opening Salvo of the Dragon Brigade RPG, you take on the roles of the Cadre of the Lost, the heroes of the new novel SHADOW RAIDERS by Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes, as they engage in a search and rescue operation in the dragon lands of Rosia. Take up arms and ready your magical sigils! The Opening Salvo has been launched!"

@RPG Creatures: [Monster] "Darratha"

"With senses always alert to the smell of evil, seeking eagerly for a trace of their cradle, some Darratha mysteriously manage to find a master to guide them. Several adept mages of demonology and necromancy have found a Darratha waiting on their doorstep, anxious to be led"

@Ancient Vaults & Eldrich Secrets: [Magic Item] "Diadem of Man"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldrich Secrets: [Spell] "Unnerving Stare" and "Radiate Alignment"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldrich Secrets: [Monstera] "Yokitai" and "Nubizo"
@and the sky full of dust: [Monster] "Granite and Sandstone Giants"
@DriveThruRPG: "GROMM: Cogs of the Covenant, Faction Pack"
@A Field Guide to Doomsday: [Monsters] "Rocketjaw" and "Blacktop" Mutant Future.
@The Land of Nod: "Mu-Pan Eastern Encounter XII"
@The Land of Nod: [Monster Races] "Eaoro and Ustte"
@Netherwerks: "Five More Scenario-Seeds or Plot-Hooks for the Obelisk Terrain Tiles"
@Sea of Stars: [Magic Item] "Poet’s Book"

Free Fantasy, SF, and Horror Fiction.

Another good selection of free quality fantasy, Science Fiction, and horror fiction.

Today's illustration is for "The Old Equations" directly below.








@Lightspeed: "The Old Equations" by Jake Kerr. Science Fiction.

"I miss you already. But you know that. What you don’t know is just how proud I am of you. You were born for this, and no one could possibly be able to handle such a demanding job as well as you."

@Strange Horizons: "The Peacock" by Ted Infinity and Nabil Hijazi. Speculative Fiction.

"No HA HA not at all I am just making a joke. Please ignore my last two extremely suspicious metaphors. No need to contact authorities. No need to send your bank account information."

@Author's Site: "June Sixteenth at Anna’s" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Science Fiction. First published in Asimov’s SF Magazine, April, 2003.

"He’d thrown out her treatment bottles, taken the Kleenex off the nightstand, put the old-fashioned hardcover of Gulliver’s Travels that she would now never finish on their collectibles bookshelf, but he couldn’t get rid of her scent—faintly musky, slightly apricot, and always, no matter how sick she got, making him think of youth."

@L5R: "Endgame" by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.

"The final confrontation between the magistrate Seppun Tashime and his quarry, the engimatic Gray Woman!"

Serial Fiction
@Author's Site: "The Journals of Doctor Mormeck’s Avatar–Entry #7" by Jeff VanderMeer.

"A day has passed…I had not thought much about my namesake, the Mountain That Remained Behind…until now. Now I think about Mormeck Mountain constantly, wondering what he would do in my stead"

Flash Fiction
@Strange Horizons: [poem] "The Mesozoic Tour Guide" by Ken Liu.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Upgrade" by Allison Starkweather.
@365 tomorrows: "Artifact" by M.J. Hall. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "Star" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Ron Slade Lives" by C.D. Carter. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Gargoyle" by Eric Petersen. Horror.
@Eschatology: "A One, A Two…. " by Kaolin Fire. Horror.
@Eschatology: "Solemn Bird" by Corinna Beckho. Horror.
@Quantum Muse: "Too Many Bites" by Jeromy Henry. Horror.

@PodCastle "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu, read by Rajan Khanna. Fantasy.

"Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A little paper tiger stood on the table, the size of two fists placed together. The skin of the tiger was the pattern on the wrapping paper, white background with red candy canes and green Christmas trees."

@Lightspeed: "The Old Equations" by Jake Kerr. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Heather Scott, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Ted Scott. Science Fiction. Described above in Fiction.


Serial Audio
@MoPO: "The Shadows of Calcutta (Part 1)" written and narrated by Phil Rossi. Steampunk.

"Agent Robert Smith, on return from a mission in Nepal, is diverted to India where he is charged to find a missing agent. Alex Tanner had been investigating a series of thefts and murders holding the Ministry’s attention, and now it falls on Agent Smith to find his missing comrade."

@Flash Pulp: "The Murder Plague: Buggy Parts 1 though 3" by J.R.D. Skinner, read by Opopanax. Horror.

"The girl was screaming around her clenched fangs, but she refused to let go, and most of her attacker’s clothes were burned away before I could grab him by the scruff and yank him from the inferno."

@Drama Pod: Journey to the Centre of the Earth Part Sixteen by Jules Verne.

The classic SF/Adventure novel continues.

Free Fiction (Verne, Swirsky, VenderMeer, Vardeman), Comics, Fan Audio, More

Another day of cool freebies, and even though it has been a rough week here at QD (too little time and too much fatigue), the freebies must go on.

Some cool free fiction, including two complete 'zines and an Electric Velocipede classic. Continuing serial fiction by greats Jeff VanderMeer and Robert E. Vardeman. The start of an audio serial at StarShipSofa by also great Rachel Swirsky and a continuing one by Jules Verne (I think I might have heard of him) and Star Trek fan audio. And for the icing on the cake - some very fun classic comics.

Today's illustration is from "Plow and Sword" in the fiction section.







Now Posted: On the Premises #14 (July 2011). Speculative Fiction.
"Three-Quarter Martian" by C. R. Hodges. Science Fiction.

"The first man to walk on the moon was a hero to five generations. The first woman to walk on Mars was forgotten even before her boots plunked into the red dust."

"The Knuth Number" by Micah Joel. Science Fiction.

"Vivek dropped his naan. It actually worked?"

"Marma Shells" by Deborah Walker.

“I’ve seen the patterns, Marma. You said I should come and tell you, if I ever saw them.”

"Advertise Here" by Kelli D. Meyer.

"Vampires don’t pay much attention to advertising."

"Time Was" by Alyson Hilbourne. Science Fiction.

"The fractions disappeared first."

@Electric Velocipede: "The Bear Dresser’s Secret" by Richard Bowes. Fantasy.

"Early one morning Sigistrix the Bear Dresser left the Duchess and her castle. He gave no warning before he slammed the golden tricorn hat, the sign of a Grand Master of the Animal Dressers Guild onto his head and picked up his suitcase."

Now Posted: Aphelion June/July 2011. Science Fiction.

With science fiction by Francisco Mejia, E. S. Strout, P. B. Hampton, Andrew Nagel, C. B. Lovas, P. F. White, John Dougherty, Bruce Memblatt, Richard Tornello, David Barber, Kurt Heinrich Hyatt, Christopher Berry, Kurt Heinrich Hyatt, Benjamin Green, James O'Sullivan, George Morrow, Richard Tornello, Francis Bass, Mike Wilson, Jeremy Kuban, Dave Weaver, Dave Weaver, Matthew Acheson, and S. H. Hughes. (And poetry and filk music)

Serial Fiction
@Author's Site: "The Journals of Doctor Mormeck (Mountain)–Entry #12" by Jeff VanderMeer.

"Everything that rises must resolve. But when I drift, I drift, and a mountain can drift for a long time. A mountain can drift and still function. This language cannot convey the concept so I must repeat, must keep trying in different ways. I drift, I resolve, I fold inward while turning outward. No, it’s no use."

@Paizo.com: Pathfinder Tales "Plow and Sword - Chapter Two: The Lord's Due" by Robert E. Vardeman

"Rorr exploded through the wall of flames and stumbled past, finding relative cool beyond. The fire arrow had not yet spread its fury deeper into the granary, but he knew that the building and its grain stores were already far past saving."

Serial Audio
@StarShipSofa: "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath The Queen’s Window Pt 1 of 3" by Rachel Swirsky, read by Amy H. Sturgis.

"My story should have ended on the day I died. Instead, it began there. Sun pounded on my back as I rode through the Mountains where the Sun Rests. My horse’s hooves beat in syncopation with those of the donkey that trotted in our shadow. The queen’s midget Kyan turned his head toward me, sweat dripping down the red-and-blue protections painted across his malformed brow."

@Drama Pod: Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Part Fifteen by Jules Verne

The cool classic continues.

Fan Audio
@Pendant Productions: Episode 58 of Star Trek: Defiant.

"Murder and espionage are exposed as Captain Bridges vies with the Klingons for a world!"

@Atomic Kommie Comics:"Return of the Azteks" "Strong Bow meets up with Aztecs from the stars in this tale from Space Western Comics #42." Sci-Fi.




@Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "Slime World" cool black and white horror from Nightmare #5 and "Mr. Beazely's Ghosts" a ghost story from Ghost Manor.







@The Horrors of It All:"Master of the Undead" "Time to walk with the zombies, from the Sept. '53 issue of Baffling Mysteries #17" Horror.

Midweek Free Fiction

Some cool classic SF, including part one of a serialized story by Mike Resnick, and a new story at Ray Gun Revival. All free. Likely, something more later

Today's illustration is from "Tillie" below. The art looks better than the story description sounds.






@Ray Gun Revival: "Mercurial Nights" by Gareth D Jones. Science Fiction.

"Lieutenant Robbins stood patiently on the barren surface of Mercury and concentrated on what he wanted to say. He had to be very literal for the non-corporeal Mercurials to grasp any concept that he vocalized."

Serial Fiction
@More Red Ink: "The 43 Antarean Dynasties, part 1 of 3" by Mike Resnick, from Asimov's Science Fiction, (Dec. 1997). [via SF Signal]

"A man, a woman, and a child emerge from the Temple of the Honored Sun. The woman holds a camera to her eye, capturing the same image from a dozen unimaginative angles. The child, his lip sparsely covered with hair that is supposed to imply maturity, never sees beyond the game he is playing on his pocket computer."

Classic SF
@Munseys and Gutenberg: "The Dark Goddess" by Richard S. Shaver, from Imagination (Feb. 1953). Science Fiction.

"Deep within her caverns the great mer-woman longed for death to end her loneliness. But then came a voyager from space—a man—also lonely...."

@Munseys and Gutenberg: "Success Story" by Robert Turner, from If (Jan. 1953). Science Fiction.

"What is to be will be. Our only refuge lies in that which might not have been."

@Munseys and Gutenberg: "Tillie" by Rog Phillips, from Amazing Stories (Dec. 1948). Science Fiction.

"She was just a blob of metal, but she had emotions like any woman. She, too, wanted ROMANCE, and wasn't coy about running after her 'guy'"

@Munseys and Gutenberg: "The Impossible Voyage Home" by F. L. Wallace, from Galaxy Science Fiction (Aug. 1954).

"The right question kept getting the wrong answer—but old Ethan and Amantha got the right answer by asking the wrong question!"

@Munseys and Gutenberg: "The Moralist" by Jack Taylor, Galaxy Science Fiction (June 1956). Science Fiction.

"Aye, 'tis a difficult thing to be a lady on a far world—but who needs them there?"

@Internet Archive: Complete issues of Amazing Stories. Volume 01 Number 07 (Oct. 1926), Volume 01 Number 08 (Nov. 1926), and Volume 01 Number 09 (Dec. 1926).

Classics by Verne, Wells, and other classic science fiction writers.

Reviewed Free SF
@BestScienceFictionStories: "Hindsight, In Neon" by Jamie Todd Rubin (2009)

"the story of a science fiction writer who is unhappy that he no longer has any readers."

@BestScienceFictionStories: "The Chameleon Man" by William P. McGivern (1943)

"science fiction short story. It is about a man with a peculiar condition that renders him nearly invisible."

Monday

Some great free fiction today including a Holly Philips short story in Fantasy Magazine and a Jason Sanford story dramatized at LightningBolt Theater. More good stuff later because, as normal, I'm running late. I really should get organized but honestly, it's more likely that a herd of winged unicorns will fly down from the sky and perform the latest Blackmore's Night album than me getting organized.







@Fantasy Magazine: "Virgin of the Sands" by Holly Phillips.

"Graham came out of the desert leaving most of his men dead behind him. He debriefed, he bathed, he dressed in a borrowed uniform, and without food, without rest, though he needed both, he went to see the girl."

@Daily Science Fiction: "The Thinning" by Christopher Owen.

"Becky was in her kitchen, mixing up a batch of love potion, when the electric people knocked at her door."

@AE: The Canadian SF Review: "Humans Love You" by Tracy Canfield.

"The Aerumnula name for the station worked out to Floats Above Blue Planet with White Moon, but Jordan Eversley thought of it as Three Loud Buzzes and a Fart. It held fifty-eight hundred Aerumnulae, of which three hundred were coiled on the concave auditorium floor. Fifty-eight hundred Aerumnulae and Jordan."

Serial Fiction
@Strange Horizons: "The All-Night Truck Stop Polka Band (part 2 of 2)" by Shaenon K. Garrity. Spec. Fiction.

"A muscular, white-toothed UPS man stood in the hall. Except that he wasn't a UPS man. Someone had clearly put a lot of work into the uniform, but it was the wrong shade of brown and some of the insignias read PSU. He had two lobes on each ear, which was probably another mistake."

@L5R: "The Destroyer War, Part 15" by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.

"Only a short time ago, the lands around the River of Gold had been beautiful, worthy of being depicted in a hundred paintings, mentioned in a thousand poems. That was before the Destroyers had come."

@Mindflights: "Saplings" by Lindsey Duncan. Fantasy.

"Hevia was an herbalist before she obtained mysterious powers and found herself caring for royal children. When a menace in the trees steals away one of her charges, she sets off to bring him back with a nanny's magic."

@LightningBolt Theater: "Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep" by Jason Sanford, performed by a full cast.

"When your neighbors and friends suddenly turn against you because their dreams tell them to hate violence, your main priority is to survive. The world has turned upside down for Sgt. Glosser, Sgt. Davies and the convicted murderer Victor."

Serial Audio
@Beam Me Up: Episode 266 "Luna Voices on the Solar Winds, part 1" by Rick Wood. And "Dark Inspectre episode 13" by Jason Kahn

"a research outing on the surface of the Moon goes horribly wrong when a science / research outing gets trapped in the open by a solar eruption which blinds their maps, and scrambles their communications"

@Cthulhu: "The Fire Of Asshurbanipal, part 2" by Robert E. Howard.

"In this episode we get to hear the completion of the "Fire" story with its juicey Cthulhu references and adventure."

@Author's Site: "The Starter, episode #19" by Scott Sigler.

"The Krakens finish their game against the Themala Dreadnaughts. Will Quentin run the plays that are called? Or, will he again try to run his own game instead of running the offensive of coach Hokor the Hookchest?"

@Dramapod: "Journey to the Centre of the Earth Part Fourteen" by Jules Verne.

The classic story continues.

@Triplanetary: "The Adventures of Superman: Looking For Kryptonite parts 11-15."

"Can Superman successfully track down the missing pieces of kryptonite? The plot is beginning to return to the standard mystery/thriller style storyline that typifies the series."

Fan Audio
@Misfits Audio Productions: "Star Rabbit Tracks Ep 2-06: Return of Deadeye" by N.J. Rainford, performed by a full cast.

"A spot of R & R for the crew of the Jackalope leads to a bigger adventure for Lt Taddy McZacker when he encounters a face from the past, Deadeye Eastlife."

Innsmoth Free Press, Pathfinder Tales, Star Pirates, and More

There's some terrifyingly good Lovecraft inspired fiction today as the seventh issue of Innsmoth Free Press is out. And there's plenty more good free fiction (classic, new, and serial) linked below.

And there are some good free audio fiction and comic book stories.


Today's illustration is from "The Ironroot Deception" in the serial fiction section.











Issue #7 of Innsmoth Free Press is posted featuring:

"Cool Mist" by W.H. Pugmire.

"Night seeped into the early evening sky and made it black. I remember wandering that realm of ink in search of perfect solitude, hunting for one uninhabited place where I could sit undisturbed and weep for the soul of my young lover, dead by his own hand. "

"A Tour of the Catacombs" by Stephen Woodworth.

"And I hope there shall be no stragglers among you. As we say in the Abbey, only two sorts enter the Catacombs: the quick and the dead."

"On The Generation of Insects" by Byron Alexander Campbell.

"Democritus bears witness that men first appeared in the form of small worms, which little by little assumed human shape…After a long period of fertility, during which many monstrous and marvelous generations were brought forth, the Earth Mother became at last exhausted and sterile…."

"Nyarlathotep" Don Webb.

"I stood on the high balcony, looking eastward to the rising sun. The pillars were deep-red and the roof slightly curved, suggesting “China ” to me. But it was not China – at least, not the China of now. "

"Black Sand" by Regina Glei.

"Despite his many layers of clothing, Orin almost froze to death and cursed the Elders who had sent him on the journey through the plain to the Cone Islands in the Lake of Stone."

"Every Little Sparrow" by Melissa Sorensten.

"Phebe had overheard one of the nurses saying that Ruth White, Phebe’s 12-year-old best friend, would be the next to be lowered into such a lead-lined pit."

@Tor.com: "Six Months, Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders .

"The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures."

Classic Fiction
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Fly by Night" by Arthur Dekker Savage, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (May 1954).

A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship. The world cheered them as the most romantic adventurers in all history. Do-gooders decried them as immoral stunters. Gaunt, serious militarists pronounced them part of the most crucial experiment ever undertaken....

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Mr. President" by Stephen Arr, from Galaxy Science Fiction (Nov. 1953).

He had been overwhelmingly elected. Messages of sympathy poured in, but they couldn't help ... nothing could.

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Death of a B.E.M." by Berkeley Livingston, from Amazing Stories (Oct. 1948).

The writer hated to create bug-eyed monsters, but they hated him too!

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Forsyte's Retreat" by Winston Marks, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (May 1954).

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms ... only two guests to a room ... but accommodating 5200 guests—all at the same time!... Floor please?

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Uniform of a Man" by Dave Dryfoos, from IF Worlds of Science Fiction (May 1954).

After rescue, revenge was uppermost in Chet Barfield's mind; the hideous, bestial Agvars had to be taught a lesson they'd never forget. His rescuers seemed to disagree, however—until Chet learned his lesson too!

@The Internet archive: "The Blonde from Barsoom" by Robert F. Young, from Amazing Stories (July 1962). [via Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars]

"The Tarks were attacking, the bosomy princess was clinging to him in terror, and Harold smith realized he was at the end of his plot line. What a dilemma! And what an opportunity!!"

@The Internet archive: Amazing Stories Volume 01 Number 01 (April 1926). [Via Triplanetary]

"Scanned copy of a pulp magazine published by Experimenter Publishing Co. and edited by Hugo Gernsback."

Serial Fiction
@Pathfinder Tales: "The Ironroot Deception - Chapter Two: The Hole" by Robin D. Laws.

"On massive, clawed legs, the forest-beast bounds toward the elves and their captives. Its beady eyes, shielded by rootlike extrusions, seem to lock onto Gad. It stops to snort and paw the ground."

Reviewed Free Fiction
@BestScienceFictionStories.com: "Spider The Artist" by Nnedi Okorafor.

"A Nigerian woman escapes from her abusive husband to the quiet land behind her house where she plays her guitar and finds a bit of peace and solitude. However, this is dangerous because she is so near the fuel pipeline that is guarded by Zombies"

Serial Audio
@The Drama Pod: "Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Part Thirteen" by Jules Verne.

"The story involves a German professor who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards." - Wikipedia.

Classic Serial Audio
@Triplanetary: The adventures of Superman "Looking For Kryptonite" Parts 1-5."

"In this story arc Superman once more teams up with Batman and Robin to hunt down the remaining pieces of kryptonite."

Fan Audio
@Pendant Audio: "Star Trek: Defiant -Episode 57 - Wednesday Night Regatta"

"Darcy races to unravel a mystery as Task Force Defiant joins the games!"

@Digital Comics Museum: "Star Pirate Archive Pt.1" Sci-Fi from Planet Comics 12-39.




@The Bloody Pulp: " "Torture Garden" & "The Living Dead" B&W. Horror.
@The Horrors of It All: "Vampires Two" 1954. Horror.
@Atomic Kommie Comics: "Barbarella 3.1" Sci-Fi.

Bizarro, Dick, Reynolds, Rusch, and More.

Added fiction since this morning's difficulties. Some good fiction (including flash and audio) today. There's a bit more weird/bizarro than usual by pure chance. More goodies tomorrow - I'm tired of my crappy internet company today. [I censored *barely* one title, so don't be shocked if it's different at the site. And I'm sure the other bizarro title will mess up Google ads, which seem to think this is a St. Louis sightseeing blog anyway).







@Lightspeed Magazine: "Scales" by Alastair Reynolds. Science Fiction.
"The reptile is splayed in a harness, stretched like a frog on the dissection table. A steady stream of soldiers-in-waiting leaves the line, jabbing an electro-prod through the bars of the cage to a chorus of jeers."

@Bizarro Central: A pair of Bizarro fiction (Over-the-top New Weird) books are available HERE in free PDF downloads until the end of the month.

1. Abortion Arcade by Cameron Pierce.
"The apocalypse is over. Now zombies farm humans for their brains. As the imprisoned human cattle drift further from their humanity, the zombies flourish in a primitive renaissance, flying around in helicopters and living in smart houses made of human brains."

and 2. Rico Slade Will F*cking Kill You by Bradley Sands.
"Rico Slade has a problem. His arch-nemesis, Baron Mayhem, is threatening to drop a bomb on the Earth that will kill every human being except himself while leaving the world’s currency intact."

@Daily Science Fiction: "Say Zucchini, and Mean It" by Peter M Ball.
"That summer you'd find them everywhere. They'd started calling it an epidemic on the news, and the government was paying a bounty to good Samaritans who called a new case in"

@The author's site: "Advisors at Naptime" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2007). Up until Monday 30 May 2011.
"A science fiction short story of naps and world domination"







@SFFaudio: Podcast number #109 featuring "The Hanging Man" by Philip K. Dick.
"At five o'clock Ed Loyce washed up, tossed on his hat and coat, got his car out and headed across town toward his TV sales store. He was tired. His back and shoulders ached from digging dirt out of the basement and wheeling it into the back yard. But for a forty-year-old man he had done okay."




@PodCastle: Episode #158 "Gone Daddy Gone" by Josh Rountree, read by Dave Thompson. Fantasy.
"Six leather jackets lay sunning on the rocks. Moon Doggie braved the crashing waves and found the one he knew was hers. Still couldn’t say how he knew but he knew. Snatched it up, took it back to his T-Bird. It smelled like the earth and the sky. The leather was cracked and ancient."

@Beware the Hairy Mango: (All by Matthew Sanborn Smith. All Weird Flash)

• Episode 68 "The Secret Lives of Sinister Shoes"
• Episode 69 "Earth Science"
• Episode 70 "Scatman"
• Episode 71 "Stretching for Victory"
• Episode 72 "Stick With Me, Baby"

Serial Audio
@The Drama Pod: Journey to the Centre of the Earth Part Twelve.
Continuing Jules Verne's classic adventure novel.

Fan and Serial Audio @Pendant Productions:

• Episode 20 of the Genesis Avalon podcast.
• Episode Thirty-nine of the Seminar podcast.
• Issue 4 of the Green Arrow: Shooting Star podcast.
• Issue 64 of the Wonder Woman: Champion of Themyscira podcast.
• Episode 2x02 of THE LINE podcast.

@Absent Willow Review: [Poem] "The Wolf and Red" by Pam Jessen. Horror.
@Daily Science Fiction: "The Instructions" by Amanda C. Davis.
@Mindflights: [Poem] "Visitors" by Marge Simon. Fantasy.
@Strange Horizons: [Poem] "If Alice. . ." by Alexandra Seidel. Speculative Fiction.
@Flashes in the Dark: "A Strange Word" by Michael A. Kechula. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "And Da’Bitch Came Back" by Acquanetta M. Sproule. Horror.
@Eschatology: "Stitch" by Steve Toase. Horror.
@The New Flesh: "Have a Cigar" by Kurt Newton. Horror.
@The New Flesh: "Fleeting Thoughts" by Joseph W. Patterson. Horror.
@Quantum Muse: "Down and Out" by Nathan Parshall. Science Fiction.

@365 tomorrows:

• "Freedom!" by Krista Bunskoek. Science Fiction.
• "The Perfect Prison" by Colin O’Boyle. Science Fiction.
• "Futureblind" by Justin Short. Science Fiction.
• "The Dutiful Husband by Martinus Guzman. Science Fiction.

@Weirdyear:

• "Van Gogh's Ear" by Midori Chen.
• "I am Hope" by Liz Haigh.
• "Bubbles" by Michael C. Thompson.
• "Nostalgia" by Miriam H. Harrison.