Sunday Movie, Fantasy eZines, Audio Fiction, and Gaming Freebies

Today there are two cool eZines for your reading pleasure, some good audio fiction, useful gaming items, including two new gaming 'zines. And Lt. Bob has another episode of "MOOOOOOOVIIIIIIIEEEE" or "It Came from the Internet Archive!!!"




Prisoners Of The Lost Universe (1983). Sci-Fi.
"A scientist, a reporter and a repairman are accidentally transported to a prehistoric world in a parallel universe when they fall into the beam of the experiment during an earthquake aftershock."

Or download it from the Internet Archive.








Now Posted: New Myths Issue 15. Speculative Fiction

Includes speculative fiction, flash, and poetry by Russ Colson, Swapna Kishore, Darren Latta, Tony Peak, Mel Obedoza, and T.C. Powell.

Now Posted: Sorcerous Signals May - Jul '11 Issue. Fantasy.

Featuring fantasy fiction and poetry by Gabrielle Bryden, Alva J Roberts, Richard H Fay, K S Dearsley, Aspen deLainey, Sylvia Hiven, Kathryn Sullivan, Edward W. Robertson, and Ray Yanek.

@LibriVox: "Operation: Outer Space" by Murray Leinster, read by Mark Nelson. 6 and 3/4 hours. Science Fiction.

"Jed Cochrane is about to take off on man's first interstellar voyage. His mission: Make sure it's good television! "

@Craphound: "Knights of the Rainbow Table" by Cory Doctorow, complete in seven parts. Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven.

"a story commissioned by Intel's Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson. Brian oversees Intel's Tomorrow project, which uses science fiction to spark conversations about product design and use among Intel's engineers, and he was kind enough to invite me to write a story of my choosing for the project."

Serial Audio
@Beam Me Up: Episode #267 "Luna Voices: on the Solar Winds. Part 2 of 2" by Nick Wood, read by Paul Cole.

"In part 2, a painful and gruesome death awaits. He is already seeing things . . . because what he does see can not possibly be there under ANY circumstances! Let alone the the raw radiation environment of the airless moon!"

@DriveThruRPG: Savage Insider #1

Very nice looking inside. "Welcome to the inaugural issue of Savage Insider - a new electronic magazine dedicated to Savage Worlds. This first issue is filled with new Savage Worlds content, fiction, licensee information, and an introduction to several Savage Worlds licensees."

@DriveThruRPG: Tattlebox #1

A small, nice looking new Pathfinder/3.5E eZine with "Falling Leaves: a comic of fey proportions, Let's Split the Party!: an essay on why you should split the party 14 new weapons, 6 new weapon special features, a new artifact, and more"

@RPG Creatures: [Monster] "Gendrohka" for most Fantasy RPG.

"As the mystics and wizards of the old desert cultures invoked the powers of rain and water, something vile and hideous stumbled out of the sea in answer to their rituals. A strange species, made by the deities of the ocean, sat foot upon the dry lands, and brought a new kind of magic with them."

@The Land of NOD: [Villain] "Meat" for Mystery Men.
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Magic Item] "Shell of Calming"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Spells] "Borrow from Plane,""Conjure Herald," and "Weaponshield"
@A Field Guide to Doomsday: [Monsters] "Thotter" "Briarbear"and "Narl" for Mutant Future.
@WotC: [Monster Update] "Wights and Ghosts" 4E.
@WotC: [Cartoons] Misfit Monsters #1 and Epic Campaign #6.

A Few Free Comics and Other Coolness.

Some free classic SF, Horror, and Adventure comics to relax to after a long day, and some good genre related music.


Illustration from When Worlds Collide in the comics section.







@The Horrors of It All: "Singing Slaves" (1953) Horror.
@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "The Thing In the Fog" (1957) Horror.
@The Comic Book Catacombs: Fantomah in "The Revenge of Zomax" (1941) Adventure.
@Four-Color Shadows: "Ultimate Destiny" (1954) Horror.
@Digital Comics Museum: Motion Picture Comics #110 -When Worlds Collide and Space Rangers Archive Vol0 Pt.1a (Fiction House). Science Fiction.
@Atomic Kommie Comics: "Outlaws of Mars" and "Invasion" Science Fiction.
@Secret Sanctum of Captain Video: Beneath the Planet of the Apes Parts One and Two.
@Femmes Fantastique: Cave Girl in "Man Who Served Death" Adventure.


Other Coolness - Audio
@Sci-Fi Songs: John Anealio's latest SF inspired song, "Geek Dad," is available for free download. If you haven't heard any of his songs yet (such as "Summer Glau" and "Angry Robot") check it out. If you have heard his songs before, you probably downloaded this one the day it came out.



TuneIn Radio Android App. The first free app recommendation. TuneIn Radio is an app that lets you listen to over 50,000 radio stations for free. So what does it have to do with fantasy, SF, or Horror? Surprisingly, quite a bit.

It has at least three good old time radio stations, Horror Theater (Horror and Suspense), Bygolly Old Time Radio (mostly Noir, some horror), and 20th Century Radio (all types, including some SF/Horror).

And for newer stories I was able to Escape Pod episodes available for streaming and WRFR (Rockland Maine) which broadcasts Beam Me Up on Saturdays 4-5 Eastern Standard Time.

And music. While there is, as far as I know, no pure genre music channel**, there are great music channels that have a fantasy feel. I especially recommend Ancient FM (Medieval/Renaissance), GotRadio Native, and GotRadio Celtic as background mood music for fantasy reading or gaming. **Thanks to Dominic for pointing out Radio Rivendell, which is pretty much a fantasy music station and is available through this app and online.

Available for free download at your Android app store. Also available in a PC version, and versions for other phones, including inferior devices named after fruit.

Thing From Another World, Terry Pratchet, Isaac Asimov, and More

Yay, it's Sunday, so annoying space captain has taken a day off and I Lt. Bob am in charge. First like always, we have a cool Mooooooviiiiiieeee! This time it's a classic from the 1950s, featuring an alien that fights humans. Go alien! It's your birthday! Also, unusual for a Sunday, lots of audio fiction (I notice some via SF Signals. Ha, lazy space captain). And a couple of comics. You QuasarDragon readers are OK (for humans) so have a nice day.




The Thing From Another World (1951)

"Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out."

Also don't miss the 1968 J.R.R. Tolkien Documentary at SF Signal.







@Beam Me Up: Episode #257 "Death and what comes Next" by Terry Pratchett, "where a mathematician tries to wrangle out of dying using physics on Death!" and "Infall" pt2 (the conclusion) "where we finally find out just exactly what faces our two combatants as the draw closer and closer to the event horizon of their destination, a monstrously huge and vastly ancient, black hole" by Ted Kosmatka. And a roundup of SF/Science tidbits.

@Pseudopod: Episode #225 "Top Of The Heap" by Nathan Robinson, read by Ben Phillips.
“I open my eyes and the dead smile back with bare teeth. In the fresh, sparse daylight I can see the bodies beneath me. I want to reach out and touch their faces, close their beseeching eyes. I recognize a few of them. Some I don’t, either through decomposition or the fact that I didn’t dump them here.

@Archive.org: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov [via SF Signal via James Nicoll]
"an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-four years by Isaac Asimov."

@LibriVox: Elves and Heroes by Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873-1936, read by Matthew Reece. "This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the characters and folk tales that inspired the author's poetry."

@LibriVox: The Mahabharata by Vyasa: the epic of ancient India condensed into English verse by Romesh C Dutt. "The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. ... Mahabharata tells the story of the epic Kurukshetra War and the fates of the cousin brothers Kauravas and the Pandavas." One of the world's great epics, on a par with The Iliad and Gilgamesh. I don't know this version, but it should at least capture some of the flavor.

@SFFaudio: "The Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckly. Two dramatized versions of the classic SF story (I Just listened to the X-Minus One version a few weeks ago - quite good).

@SFFaudio: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, performed by a full cast (CBS Radio Workshop).








@The Warriors Comic Book Den: "The Lighthouse!" By Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. Classic B&W horror from Eerie.

@Digital Comics Museum: Super-Mystery Comics v08 004. Horror/Mystery.