Comics, E-Books, and Audio Fiction

A few more cool freebies to end the weekend. Good Stuff!



 [Art from The Jack Frost Challenge in E-Books below]







Audio Fiction
At Author's Site: "The MVP Episode #6" by Scott Sigler.  Science Fiction. Football.
      "The Krakens again face the unknown: what new threat is going to come through the landing bay doors? Virak the Mean puts his military experience to work as Quentin and his teammates prepare to fight for their lives."

At Cthulhu: "The House on the Borderland, part 7" by William Hope Hodgson. Horror.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Poppy by Riana Lucas. Fantasy Romance.
• Illumini by Stephen Perry. Technothriller.
• Swan Song by Kevin Kauffmann. Science Fiction.
• Marked by Marta Szemik. Fantasy.
• The Jack Frost Challenge by Kevin George. YA. Fantasy.

At Smashwords:

• "Unforgiven" by Gabriel Archer. Horror. 6k.
• "The Prophecy" by K H Blackmoore. Fantasy. 4k.
• "King and his Terminator" by Miroslav Halás. Fantasy. 4k.
• "The Cross and the Black" by Luwa Wande. Fantasy. 17k.
• "A Gift For Ruth" by Jessie Massey. Paranormal. 4k.
• "Time Out of Joint" by Richard L. Foland. Science Fiction 22k.
• "Z"  by Manuel Alves. Science Fiction. 6k
• "Races of Armis: Emerald Wings" by Deb Sartoris. Science Fiction. 45k.
• "Bodyguard From The Future" by H Jason  Schulz. Science Fiction. 1k.
• "Covet and Redemption " by Gary Chiert. Science Fiction. 23k.

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Traitors to the Earth" Sci-Fi. 1950.
• At The Horrors of It All: "Sleep, Perchance to Die!" Horror. 1951.
• At Pappy's Golden Age Comics: "The Señorita, Werewolf Hunter and the Voltamen" Adventure. 1940s.
• At Secret Sanctum of Captain Video: "Escape" Weird. 1957.

Other Genres
Audio at PRI: Selected Shorts - "Paris Lives" including Hemingway's “Hunger Was Good Discipline” and  “The Messy Joy of the Final Throes of the Dinner Party” by Helen Phillips.

Monday Audio and Text Fiction

A few gems for the morning with about a 70% chance of more later. There's a new story, including an audio version, at Fantasy Magazine,and a few more cool fantasy and SF stories from other great sites. New audio at 19 Nocturne Boulevard and from the always cool and strange Matthew Sanborn Smith. And serial audio at Beam Me Up, from Scott Sigler, and a new serial dramatization "Beneath The Ruined Tower Of Zenopus!"

Today's illustration is from the D&D inspired audio drama "Beneath The Ruined Tower Of Zenopus!"







@Fantasy Magazine: "Crossroads" by Laura Anne Gilman.

"John came to the crossroads at just shy of noon, where a man dressed all in black stared up at another man hanging from a gallows-tree. No, not hanging; he was being hung."

@Daily Science Fiction: "The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World" by Edoardo Alberrt.
@Kasma Science Fiction: "Where Even Fools Fear to Tread" by Ashanti Luke.
@Ray Gun Revival: "The Cowboys of Carnostus" by Timothy Miller.
@Strange Horizons: "Souvenir" by Genevieve Valentine.

Serial Fiction
@AEG: "Aftermath, Part 1" by Shawn Carman. Fantasy.
@White Wolf: "Silent Knife (Part 17)" by David Nurenberg. Horror. Urban Fantasy.








@Beware the Hairy Mango: "Episode 84 – Easy as Cake" by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
@Fantasy Magazine: "Crossroads" by Laura Anne Gilman, read by Stefan Rudnicki.
@19 Nocturne Boulevard: "The Thing on the Doorstep" adapted by Julie Hoverson from the story by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror.

Serial Audio
@Author's Site: "The Starter (Episode #27)" by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction.
@Beam Me Up: "Dark InSpectre #15: " by Jason Kahn and "The Stars Fell pt1" by Keith Latch
@The Warlock's Homebrew: "Beneath The Ruined Tower Of Zenopus! (Chapter 1: Into the Dark)" by Paul Fin, performed by a full cast.Fantasy.

Cat Rambo, Tobias Buckell, and Other Great Free Fiction.

Some great free fiction today, including a pair of eZines - Lovecraft eZine (great horror fiction in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft) and Schlock Magazine (a speculative fiction magazine linked for the first time here today). Also short stories from Tobias Buckell, Cat Rambo, and Eric J. Juneau. Some cool audio fiction and flash fiction round out today's links.

On a personal note, I am proud to announce that I have rejoined the award winning SF Signal as their free fiction linker, for want of a better term.

"Ha Ha! It must be remembered that Dave sent them links before and they won no awards. Then he takes a long term leave of absence and they start winning awards while he is away. Coincidence? I think not!!"









@Fantasy Magazine: "The Immortality Game" by Cat Rambo. [Also in audio form]

"Decades later the music was what really tipped Glen off. He heard a song on the radio, a brand new release, and remembered the day he’d first heard it, twenty years earlier."

@Subterranean Press: "Mirror, Mirror" by Tobias S. Buckell. YA.

"Can you see yourself in these glasses? They’re called mirrorshades. They’re antique; I found them via someone in Topeka at an estate sale. They’re not replicas, they’re actual mirrorshades. I think a cop wore them. Like thirty years ago."

@Lovecraft eZine: The June 2011 is now posted.

"The Case of the Galloway Eidolon" by Bruce Durham.

"Two had received severe chest wounds, their cotton shirts blood-soaked and torn from multiple swings of some bladed instrument. The third had suffered a more ghastly wound, a crushed cranium; the blow slicing bone and opening the forehead down to the mouth. His glazed eyes stared obscenely in opposite directions."

"The Call of the Dance" by William Meikle.

"Right from the get-go I knew there was something dodgy going on. When he showed me round the workshop he tried to explain the machinery to me. I ain’t got the schooling for stuff like that – there something about ether and emanations but it was all gobbledygook to me. I was just happy to get paid."

"Unearthly Awakening" by W.H. Pugmire.

"You have been excited by its legend – but it’s just a story for you, not something that dwells in haunted reality. I was mesmerized as you spoke of it, that day of yellow light, and so I could not resist going to look at it after we had our little meal."

"Dreams of Fire and Glass – part 2" by Neal Jansons.

"Almost submerged in the bathtub, lay a shape. It had a head, two arms and legs, but at that point the resemblance to humanity ended."

"Darius Roy’s Manic Grin" by Brian Barnett

"The walls were adequately padded. However the material appeared to be grimy from age and lack of care. Dr. Johansson made a mental note to bring up the issue with the health board. The facility was under poor management and he could stand by no longer to watch the patients suffer."

@Kasma SF: "Influx Capacitor" by Eric J. Juneau.

"A man with a receding hairline appeared at the foot of his bed, wearing a green-collared shirt and black pants. His arrival was accompanied by a loud whirring noise coming from a black box on his arm. The man had a bigger nose and a saggy face, but Martin knew he was looking at his future self."

The June issue of Schlock Magazine ["works of speculative fiction, exploring various subgenres through experimental fusions in style and format. Schlock’s contemporary themes take a playful and irreverent look at genre fiction, given individual flair by a regular rotation of writers and artists."] is now posted [via SF Signal] with:

• Fingertips by Colin Meldrum
• Tale from a Save Point by Nick Tramdack
• Juliette & Justine: Dance of the Mummies by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
• #260: Dark Entomology by KC Wilder
• a summer haunting by David Massengill
• Jungle by Peter Farrugia and Teodor Reljic
• Pirate! by Rachel Agius
• Oneiros and I by Bettina Borg Cardona

@SFFaudio: "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth, read by William Coon. [via SF Signal]

"The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. Its protagonist is John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a freak accident involving a dental drill and anesthesia. He is revived in a dystopic future where the dysgenic breeding of humans has, in combination with intelligent people not having many children, overwhelmingly populated the world with morons."

@LibriVox: Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius.

"The story of the Metamorphosis, the tale of a man turned into a donkey that goes through many adventures to become a man again, inspired many other similar ones later on."

Serial Audio
@Beam Me Up: Episode #265 "Memory" part 2 by Michael Merriam.

"In the conclusion this week, Lucza Antreus finds out that what she want and what she has to do are not the same thing. We learn the real reason that her home planet and the rest of known space has spiraled into chaos and the sacrifices that will have to be made to arrest and reverse what has taken centuries to build up to."

@Author's Website: "The Starter" Episode #18 by Scott Sigler.

"Sunday Football on the UBS network brings you coverage of the Ionath Krakens' home opener against the Themala Dreadnaughts. It's Quentin on the field, while Chick McGee and Masarra the Observant bring you the action from the booth."

Fan Audio
@Misfits Audio Productions: "Green Lantern-Man Without Fear: It’s the Law."

"Sodam Yat says ‘Adieu’ to his loving parents on the planet Daxam while Sinestro gives Hal a few lessons in life on how to walk the straight and narrow path. Meanwhile, Lanterns gather on Oa as the Guardians hasten to make change!"

@Daily Science Fiction: "Sister" by Melissa Mead.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Balanced Breakfast" by Shawn El Naggar. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Cats and Dogs" by Henry Gribbin. Horror.
@365 tomorrows: "Last Supper" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "Countermeasures" by Jessica Thomas. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "First Flight" by Andrew Bale. Science Fiction.
@Weirdyear: "The Non-Story of Sarah Hough and I" by Jake Sweet.
@Weirdyear: "The New Landlord" by Andre Farant.
@Weirdyear: "Whatever the Price" by Alan Zhukovski.
@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Mech-Maiden of Mesopotamia Part 5" by Nichole Beard. Fantasy.
@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Mech-Maiden of Mesopotamia Part 4" by Nichole Beard. Fantasy.
@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Mech-Maiden of Mesopotamia Part 3" by Nichole Beard. Fantasy.
@Eschatology: "Asher’s Ennui" by George Wilhite. Horror.
@The New Flesh: "The Whisperer" by Margie Hamilton. Horror.
@Quantum Muse: "The Tomato" DB Fuller.
@Brain Harvest: "Tincture of Regrets" by Kate Marshall. Speculative Fiction.

China Miéville and other Monday Freebies

It's Monday, which means the weekend is just a few days away. There's some good fiction today, including China Miéville, as well as other well known and up-and-coming writers. Some audio fiction, including the latest chapter of Scott Sigler's rather cool SF/football story The Starter. [Off topic note. If there are any pro-football fans out there, and the walkout continues, I hope you remember that the UFL and CFL play some pretty good football.] And there are flash fiction stories and gaming extras. [Today's illustration is for "A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait" in the fiction section]







@The Guardian: "Covehithe" by China Miéville.
"A trip to the Suffolk coast takes on a new urgency when Dughan decides the time is right for a night-time adventure in this exclusive story from China Miéville" [via Triplanetary]



@Fantasy Magazine: "A Hunter’s Ode to His Bait" by Carrie Vaughn.
"'I’ll take her.' He tossed the pouch of silver at the woman. It landed at her feet, and she hurried to pick it up. Her husband was dead, and she had eight other children to feed." [author spotlight here]

@Supterranean Press: "Younger Women" by Karen Joy Fowler.
"Vampire. Plain as the nose on your face."

@Anotherealm: "The Ediad" by Tim McDaniel.
"They stood on the windy plain before the walled city: Odysseus, the shrewd captain; Agamemnon, tamer of horses, and Menelaos his brother, the wargod's friend; god-reared Aias Telamonias; and Ed. They looked upon the great doors of fitted planking, bolted tight to keep the town of Troy secure."

@AE Science Fiction: "Resolution" by Adam Callaway.
"Pixelpeople passed me on both sides as I neared my home. I felt my frame of reference drag and looked back to see blocks of diffuse color exchange between them. The pixelpeople were migrating black holes with blurry event horizons."

@Hub: Issue #138 featuring "A Nose For Such Things" by Ian Watson.
"'You mean,' said Max, 'this ghost business might be a stunt to take people’s minds off politics?'"

Serial Fiction
@Kat and Mouse: "Payback" - Part Six" by Abner Senires.
"Duster lay on his side, looking at us, wide-eyed. Mouse's wakizashi stuck out from his throat, Duster's hands hanging limply off the blade. Blood pooled around his head and shoulders"

Classic SF
@Google Books: Yezad: A Romance of the Unknown by George H. Babcock (1922).
"A long-winded tale about a deceased aviator who is to be reincarnated after his spiritual instruction on the Red Planet by a ten-foot tall Martian named Marcomet" [via Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars]




@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Mr. Spaceship" by Phillip K. Dick, from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy (Jan. 1953).
"A human brain-controlled spacecraft would mean mechanical perfection. This was accomplished, and something unforeseen: a strange entity called—"

SF Review
@BestScienceFictionStories.com: "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" by Yoon Ha Lee (2010).
Reviewed with a link to a free online copy.






Serial Audio
@The Author's Site: "The Starter" Episode #11, by Scott Sigler.
"Quentin's growing fame brings offers for endorsement deals, including one from yacht maker Manny Sayed (remember him from The Rookie?). The Krakens' offensive line troubles continue, with no solution in sight."

Fan audio @BrokenSea Audio Productions: Episode Six of Beneath the Planet of the Apes [earlier episodes here]

Classic Audio
@SFFaudio:"Warrior Race" by Robert Sheckley, read by Gregg Margarite.
"Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!"

@Lovecraft eZine: Three Lovecraft Audio Stories: "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dumwich Horror," and "Pickman’s Model."

@Triplanetary: Classic Superman Audio The Atom Man Parts 17-20.






@Flashes in the Dark: "Blur" by Neil Leckman.
@365 tomorrows: "Good Man" by Jordan Whicker.
@Weirdyear: "The Zeek Files - Escape from Exkerbjann" by Mandi M. Lynch.
@Brain Harvest: "Fool" by by Steven R. Stewart.
@Strange Horizons: [Poem] "Tonight I Know" by Shweta Narayan.
@Daily Science Fiction: "The School Counselor" by Mark Sarney.
@Feedbooks: "Quick Gasps of Breath - 5 MicroHorrors" by Lyn Perry.
@Triplanetary: [Poem] "The Sorrow of the Winds" by Clark Ashton Smith.






@Netherwerks: [New Item] "Bacchune's Prototypes: The Drunkard's Gonne"





@The Land of Nod: "Two New Villains for Mystery Men!"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [New Spells] "Oath of the Acorn" and "Riddle of Perplexion"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [New Magic Item] "Dwarf Rings of Goldkeep"
@Sea of Stars: "Seirios’ Bow" and "Tempestes’ Girdle"
@Big Ball of No Fun: "Tatzlwurm" and "Uwan"
@Zalchis: [New Monsters] "Rattong" and "Triloo"

Tanith Lee Fiction, Galaxy Magazine, Scott Sigler, Monks, and More.

Another Monday and another good haul of free genre items. Good fiction, highlighted by a Tanith Lee! short, audio fiction, though I'm sad to see The Witch Hunter Chronicles reach its conclusion, gaming goodies, and more.




Fiction
@Fantasy Magazine: "The God Orkrem" by Tanith Lee.
"To a man bereaved of all as I was, distance and time are only words. For me then, and also now, only one word any more can exist: God. The god Orkrem."





@Ray Gun Revival: "The Giants" by J. Chant.
"At the age of sixteen the great Champollion had mastered a dozen languages; at the age of ten Oyla had mastered two dozen languages from eight different worlds. At the age of thirty-two Champollion translated the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. At the age of twelve Oyla translated the language of the people she named the Dancers."

@The Canadian Science Fiction Review: "Don't Move a Muscle, Mr. Liberty" by Jordan Ellinger.
"Crumpled leather the colour of a fisherman’s tan, it sits on its head in the middle of the cobblestone plaza. It is a great fisher of men, my hat. It sweeps up passing tourists and holds them before me, their jowls hanging loose like gasping catfish as I ply my trade."

@MindFlights: "Let My Ship Sail Like Brendan's" by Joseph C. Romano.
"A monk's cargo holds the key to Earth's salvation. "

@Dark Valentine Magazine: "A Coral Pillow" by G. Wells Taylor.
"Yes, there on the salted sea breeze, he saw a golden coil of hair. It danced in the air and beckoned, but he could see nothing more."

@BestScienceFictionStories: "The Exterminator’s Want-Ad" (2010) by Bruce Sterling. Reviewed with a link to the story online.

Serial Fiction:
@Kat And Mouse: Guns For Hire: "Payback" Part One by Abner Senires.
"Franco Bianchi, Righetti family consigliere, stood in the middle of the Red Dog's back hallway near the rear entrance, hands folded in front of him, and looked at us from beneath bushy eyebrows. 'We have a problem, ladies,' he said."

Classic SF:
@Project Gutenberg: "Palos of the Dog Star Pack" (1918) by J. U. Giesy. [via Triplanetary]
"He stood on the side of a mountain in the midst of an almost tropic vegetation. Giant trees were about him, giant ferns sprouted from the soil. But here, as on earth, the color of the leaves was green."

"Keep Your Shape" by Robert Sheckley. (from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1953.)
"Only a race as incredibly elastic as the Grom could have a single rule of war" At Munseys and Project Gutenberg.

and "Wheels Within" (from Galaxy Science Fiction May 1952.)
"Never ask 'Who am I and where do I come from?' The answers may not be what you'd expect!" At Munseys and Project Gutenberg.


Audio Fiction:





@Beam Me Up: Episode #253 featuring stories by David Steffen & Jason Kahn.
Audio fiction and SF/Science news.

@Podcastle: Miniature #60 "Cranberry Honey" by Amal El-Mohtar, read by Marguerite Croft.
There is fire in his wrists, fire in his walk, fire beneath his fingernails. He is red, redder than rowan berries, for rowan doesn’t bleed as cranberries do, and it is cranberries that he gathers and stews and crushes, cranberries in which he steeps his skin.

Serial Audio:
@Scott Sigler's website: "The Starter" part six.
"The free agents have arrived at the Touchback, and this season Quentin gets input on personnel decisions. What kind of talent will he add to the Krakens roster?"

@The Witch Hunter Chronicles: The Final Episode – "Requiem"
"The end of our series. It’s been a long time in the making and we are very happy to be able to present it to you at last."


Flash Fiction:



@Every Day Fiction: "And That's Uncle Thom" by Loren Arthur Moreno.
@365 tomorrows: "Anthropic" by Ian Rennie.
@Trollish Delver: "Markings" by Scott Malthouse.
@Daily Science Fiction: "The Cloud Dragon Ate Red Balloons" by Tom Cardamone.
@Every Day Fiction: "Impish Balance" by Douglas Pugh.
@365 tomorrows: "Biding" by Steve Smith.


Gaming
@RPG Creatures, another extremely well illustrated monster, The Mingossi, easily adaptable to nearly any fantasy RPG.
"In this case the mushroom is nothing like the delicious or toxic little things found in the forest, but a living, hungry entity, very similar to a cephalopod mollusk – an octopus."


Online HERE.


@A Character for Every Game: Dodecahedron #3 featuring, Uniquely Undead, - Undead Guardians of Veroth, Reskinning Dragons, Ruins of the Gorgon, And 48 Random Curses.



Issues one through three are in PDF downloads HERE.




@Dragonsfoot: "The Monastery of the Order of the Crimson Monks"
An Adventure Module for Original and First Edition Roleplaying Games & Their Simulacra. Suitable for a Party of 4 to 8 Player Characters, Level 5 to 9. (Early edition D&D or retro clones).



In PDF download HERE.



Small, But Cool, Gaming Freebies.
@The Land of NOD: [Encounter] Mu-Pan - Encounter VII.
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [New Magic Item] Trickster’s Parchment.
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [New Spell] Watery Ensnarement.
@Axe & Hammer: [Price Guide] Paying the Troops: Officers.
@Jeff's Gameblog: [New Spell] Desanguinate Foe. - Gross

Mondays aren't all bad - Free Fiction

Lots of cool free items today! There is fiction in many formats, text, audio, serial, illustrated (comics), and collaborative (gaming). It takes a bit of the sting off the fact that it's a Monday. And if anyone sees Lt. Bob, please kick him hard for yesterday's movie.




E-Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction, "Waiting In The Corners" by Brian Dolton.
"We used to be there all the time. In the background, but there, in the dark corners. We'd come out at night, or when you were alone. When there were strange sounds in the jungles of Cambodia, or on the wild Scottish cliffs. Then you'd remember us, and look around, and be afraid."

Online HERE.



At Ray Gun Revival, "Catastrophe Baker and the Cold Equations" by Mike Resnick.
"If you really want to know about the cold equations, there’s only one person to ask, and that’s me—Catastrophe Baker, hero by trade but all too frequently fugitive by misunderstanding."

Online HERE.


At Fantasy Magazine, "The Sandal-Bride" by Genevieve Valentine.
"Pilgrims always cried when they crested the hill and saw the spires of Miruna; they usually fell to their knees right in the middle of traffic. All I saw was the gate that led to the Night Market."

Online text and MP3 download HERE.



At Anotherealm, "Keeping Up appearances" by Shawn Murphy and Tana Lyma.

"What big teeth you have, grandma—and your breath! — Little about-to-be-eaten Riding Hood"

Online HERE.



The Fifth Dimension fantasy and SF e-zine has its edition 13, #1--March 2011 issue up with

"Unnatural Selection" by Adam La Rusic & Johan Thornton
"Real Good Looking Boy" by Daniel C. Smith
"The Dance of Predator and Prey" by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
"The Girl with Two Eyes" by Eric Del Carlo


These, as well as poetry and editorial" are HERE.



Aoife's Kiss has a sample story and poem from its March 2011 issue free online. "Nights of Wonder," by K. S. Hardy, and the poem, "When I Was Numb," by Maria Kelly



Both online HERE (probably temporarily)





Mirror Dance, a free online magazine of fantasy stories, art, and poetry has its Spring 2011 online featuring

Fiction by Chrystalla Thoma, Laura Kjosen, Cheryl Wood Ruggiero, and Crowerd Robinson.

Poetry by Laura Garrison, Sari Krosinky, Robert Shmigelsky, and Deborah Walker.

All online HERE.



Serial Fiction
At Kat and Mouse: Guns For Hire, part two of "Taking Care of Business" by Abner Senires.
"Sakura looked up from her plate of waffles and eggs and smiled at the short-haired blond in the opposite seat. She was dressed just like in the surveillance shots Simon took. Knee-length black leather coat. Black shirt and pants."

Online HERE.



Audio Fiction
At Beam Me Up, episode 251, with classic fiction "The Salesman" by Waldo Boyd and "part two of David Steffen’s retelling of the Wizard of Oz theme called 'The Utility of Love'. In Part two we meet more of the cast of characters but there are some pretty major differences that leads the main characters in substantially different directions."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.




At Scott Sigler's website, The Starter episode #4.
"Quentin & Company deal with the aftermath of the championship parade. With the Tier One season fast approaching, can the Krakens manage these distractions?"


In MP3 download HERE.





At The Drama Pod Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is being serialized.

Parts one through five are available in MP3 downloads HERE.


At Cthulhu, episode 97 featuring "The Spawn of Dagon" part 2.

In Mp3 download HERE.




Gaming
At Dragonsfoot, "The Howling Hills" This module is one of a series of adventures created in homage to the deadliest adventure ever created, The Tomb of Horrors! An Adventure of characters of level 10-14

In a free PDF download HERE.




At DriveThruRPG, Oubliette #5 is available as a free download for a limited time (through March, 2011).
"Written for Labyrinth Lord, but also ideal for use with any Basic/Expert/Advanced original or clone, with little or no adjustment required." Contains a large article on Paladins.



In PDF download HERE.




At The Land of Nod, part one of Mu-Pan, a pseudo-Asian setting for NOD.
"Mu-Pan is the fabulous land of jade, silk and lotus blossoms that makes princes of Motherlander merchants."

Online HERE.



Comics
At The Comic Book Catacombs, ""The Red Hills of Uganda" from Amazing Adventures #5 (Nov.1951) . Giant Ants!




Online HERE.





At Grantbridge Street & Other Misadventures, "Requiem for a Werewolf!" from Tales of Evil #2. The title says it all.



Online HERE (caution PG post nut R rated site).

Saturday freebies

Fghh jgyt*hj **hghy*j. Oops forgot turn on Googlesoft 5.0 translater[tm].
Happy weekend humans. Stupid space captain take day off. Mental health day he say. Lazy. Anywho, he leave some very good links to post. Why always good links? Me show him - add bad movie to end of his. Enjoy badness! What? You think me Gnaerkiean? Ha, ha, is funny. Me not Gnaerkiean; they ugly! Me just space lieutenant Bob.



E-Fiction
At BestScienceFictionStories.com, "38 Awesome Alien Stories" links to reviews of these stories as well as online versions of them. I don't know every story that Rusty picked, but all the one I do know really are pretty awesome.

Available HERE.






At Variety SF, a review of, as well as links to, "Expediter" by Mack Reynolds. Originally published in Analog Science Fact & Fiction (May 1963).

"His assignment was to get things done; he definitely did so.Not quite the things intended, perhaps,but definitely done."

The review and link are HERE.





At Two-Fisted Tales of True-Life Romance, JPG scans of Theodore R. Cogswell's "Limiting Factor" from Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 8. #. 1.

"Is there a Homo superior in the audience? This story is printed especially for you!"

Online HERE.





Audio Fiction
At 19 Nocturne Boulevard, audio drama "'The Leech' (adapted from a story by Phillips Barbee (pseudonym of Robert Sheckley), published in Galaxy Science Fiction December 1952) - A visitor from somewhere beyond threatens the entire planet Earth!!"

In Mp3 download HERE. [via SFFaudio]





At Scott Sigler's website episode two of audio-book of "The Starter"
"Feel your heart pump at the roar of 180,000-plus screaming for blood at Ionath Stadium! Watch as second-year quarterback Quentin Barnes leads the orange and the black onto the field of battle in the second book of the Galactic Football League series."

In Mp3 download HERE. [episode one is here]





Gaming
At RPGNow, "Beasts & Barbarians Heroic Tale #1: The Cliffs Queen’s Court" a free adventure for Savage Worlds.

"The heroes were crossing the Cairnlands as part of a caravan, either working as hired guards, or as passengers traveling from the Marquees to Valkheim. This morning the caravan was ambushed by a band of Cairnlander marauders, and only the heroes escaped. And then, the real adventure begins!"

In a free pdf download HERE (free membership required)




Comics
At Review 2 A Kill, "Kill All Monsters" a free webcomic

"In Kill All Monsters! the giants have already won. It's a post-apocalyptic setting in which the world has been completely overrun by giant monsters. Pockets of humanity are hiding and surviving as best they can, but no one's found an effective way to defeat the beasts...until now."

Online HERE [via Exonauts]



At The Horrors of It All, "The Buried Brain" from Adventures into the Unknown #27 (Jan 1952). Classic pre-code horror.



Online HERE





At Fantasy Ink, "John Bell's Devil Witch" a supernatural story from Ripley's Believe It or Not! True Demons and Monsters #25.



Online HERE.





At ComiXology, a free iPod, iPad, iPhone download or online, Dogs of Mars,
"Nocturnal monsters stalk astronauts marooned on Mars. Zoe is the swashbuckling captain of Earth's first off-world colony. Isolated on the farthest frontier of civilization, order breaks down when the unfamiliar hostile invades."

Available HERE. [via Marooned - Science Fiction & Fantasy books on Mars]






Classic B Movie - Zontar the Thing from Venus (1966). [via Crosseyed Cyclops]