Showing posts with label scifi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scifi. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) and Cool Classic Comics

It's Sunday so it's time for another episode of Lt. Bob's Moooooovvviiiieeee or "It came from the Internet Archive" Today its Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) "A pair of comical soldiers investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and discover several beautiful alien vixens who plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters" IMDb. [Notice - if you watch this movie, we are not responsible for grease stains on your monitor caused by you throwing popcorn at the screen - The QD legal staff]

And a cool collection of classic comics for your enjoyment - All better than the film. Happy reading and watching.

Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) Sci-Fi/Comedy.

Or download it at the Internet Archive.







@Atomic Kommie Comics: "Garden of Eden" Science Fiction. (1958).
"a tale with spectacular Jack Kirby/Al Williamson artwork combining both realistic 1950s spacesuits and architecture and way-out technology and alien costuming."


@Four-Color Shadows: "Neptina, Queen of the Deep" Science Fiction (1939).
A story likely inspired by the Flash Gordon comic strip and Atlantis myths.


@Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "The Birth of Death" Fantasy. (1974).
B&W classic illustrated by Jim Starlin




@The Comic Book Catacombs: Jungo the Man-Beast in "The Giant Jaguar" (1946). Adventure.
"Phil Gant was famous for his movie serial role of "Jungo" until a blow on the head convinced him that he actually was the very jungle lord that he had been portraying."

@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Tarzan in "The Terribs" (1951). Adventure.
The original jungle hero.



@The Horrors of It All: "Wolves of Midnight / The Horrible Trade" Horror.
"a double shot of horrific animal horrors"




@Digital Comics Museum: Rocketman #1, Fight Comics #37, Forbidden Worlds #14, #23, #28, #34, #35, #37, #45, and #46.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

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.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Classic SF, Lovecraft eZine, Fantasy Magazine

Some good fiction today, and much more.











@Fantasy Magazine: "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford.
"I learned about creation from Mrs. Grimm, in the basement of her house down the street from ours. The room was dimly lit by a stained-glass lamp positioned above the pool table. There was also a bar in the corner."



@The May issue of Lovecraft eZine is up

"Introduction to Issue #4" by Mike Davis.
"All the Gold" by Joseph S. Pulver/
"Run. Carry the pain. Pine. Slide. Trip. Stumble. Run. And keep moving. You can outrun a horse in this terrain. Snow. Cold. No camp. Maybe later. Maybe take to the water. Pay for it downstream"

"Dreams of Fire and Glass" by Neal Jansons.
"Coding was a dream for me. Ever since I was twelve years old, I could see the beauty of the byte. Pure, ordered, predictable."

"O, Lad of Memory and Shadow" by W.H. Pugmire.
"I crept like a frightened girl on silver-sandalled feet beneath an arc of moonlight, toward the House of Shadows."

"Dragon Star Lucky Food" by John Medaille
"So, I went to that Chinese grocery store, that one you don’t like to go to because you think it smells weird."

and "Curse the Child" by David J. West
"The black vault of night fell and the starry cosmic serpent whirled overhead, tail in mouth, as the queen of Sheba’s retinue entered Jerusalem through the southeastern fountain gates."


Serial Fiction
@Kat and Mouse: "Payback" Part Eight by Abner Senires.
"I took the pistol and slipped her back in my shoulder rig. 'Thanks,' I said. 'Now--those guys you saw. Do you remember what they looked like?'"


Classic Science Fiction and Adventure
@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Golden Amazons of Venus" by John Murray Reynolds, from Planet Stories (Winter 1939).
"Dakta death, horrible beyond the weirdest fever-dreams of Earth-men, faced Space Ship Commander Gerry Norton. The laconic interplanetary explorer knew too much. "


@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Accidental Flight" by F. L. Wallace, from Galaxy Science Fiction (April 1952).
"Outcasts of a society of physically perfect people, they couldn't stay and they couldn't go home again—yet there had to be some escape for them. Oddly enough, there was!"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Stalemate" by Basil Wells, from If Worlds of Science Fiction (Nov. 1954).
"The rules of a duel between gentlemen are quite different from the rules of war between nations."

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses" by Dwight V. Swain, from Amazing Stories (Dec. 1942).
"Henry Horn had a new invention; a pair of glasses that worked on the x-ray principle. But he didn't expect them to reveal Nazi secret agents and their works of sabotage!"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Let There Be Light" by Horace Brown Fyfe, from If Worlds of Science Fiction (Nov. 1954).
"No matter what the future, one factor must always be reckoned with—the ingenuity of the human animal"

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "The Old Martians" by Roger Phillips Graham, from If Worlds of Science Fiction (March 1952).
"They opened the ruins to tourists at a dollar a head but they reckoned without The OLD MARTIANS."

@Two-Fisted Tales of True-Life Weird Romance: "The Alien Vibration" by Hannes Bok,
from Avon Science-Fiction Reader # 5. Science Fiction.
"Frank Rogers heard the tortured wailing on a night in scarlet F autumn, when he was sitting alone in his cottage, cosily woolgathering before a dying fire. Instinctively he glanced around, then chuckled—for of course he was alone"

@Two-Fisted Tales of True-Life Weird Romance: "Matto Grosso Fury" by Gordon MacCreagh, from Jungle Stories vol. 4. #. 11. Adventure.
"Dave snapped a shot at Laredo over his log . . . as surely as shooting meat."







@Every Day Fiction: "A Dance to End Our Final Day" by Beth Cato.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Milepost 44" by Tammy A. Branom.
@Flashes in the Dark: "A Mother’s Day Visit" by Nancy A. Cavanaugh.
@365 tomorrows: "Indiana Girl" by Roi R. Czechvala.
@365 tomorrows: "Come On Out" by Jason Frank.
@Weirdyear: "Big Brother" by Harris Tobias
@Quantum Muse: "The Apple did not Fall" by Paul Clint.
@Brain Harvest: "Space Falling" by Jon Hakes.
@Mindflights: [Poem] "Upon the Leviathan's Back" by WC Roberts
@Daily Science Fiction: "Her Old Man" by Chuck Rothman.







@Fantasy Magazine: "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford, read by Rajan Khanna.
[Description above]

@The Drabblecast - linked earlier as streaming only "Boojum Part II" by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette is now available in MP3 download (Part One is Here).
"The first sign was the chief engineers frowning and going into huddles at odd moments. And then Black Alice began to feel it herself, the way Vinnie was… she didn’t have a word for it because she’d never felt anything like it before"

Serial Audio
@The author's site: "The Starter Episode #13" by Scott Sigler.
"Tier One season kicks off. Do you have money on Coranadillana Cloud Killers start the season against the To Pirates. And your own Ionath Krakens prepare for their opener against the Isis Ice Storm. "

Fan Audio
@Misfits Audio: Green Lantern Man Without Fear: “Questionable Motives
"The Guardians are preparing to make a few announcements to their Green Lantern Corps. Guy and Sodam say goodbye to their lives as they knew them while John punches in at his new job."









Encounter Magazine has its fourth issue out for PDF download (older issues available). [via Star Frontiersman]. Among the highlights
"A Darkened World" by Jesse Walker. The Dark Crystal™ for Classic D&D® Part I
"DM’s Toolkit: Random Curiosities" by Howard Olsen. Oddities for your Labyrinth Lord™ game
"Dragons of Lore" by Thomas Daly Put some Norse myth into your Classic D&D® dragons
"Quest for the Enchanted Sword" by Jimm Johnson - adventure for young players of D&D®

Looks very good.

More Cool Gaming Items
Adventure Dark & Deep Players Manual v 1.1 (errata fixed and other updates) [via Greyhawk Grognard].
@Rule of the Dice: [Magic Items] "Three of Swords" Three detailed magic swords.
@The Land of NOD: [Table] "Portal Destination"
@The Land of NOD: [Class] "Jack of All Trades"
@Of Pedantry: [Charts] "Tolls and Traveling" and "Wilderness Travel System" [via RPG Bloggers]
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Magic Item] "Anvil of Drang-Zhor"
@Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets: [Spells] "Punchdoor" and "Laughing Pillar"
@Underworld Kingdom: [Magic Item] "Memory Crystals of the Shapers"
@Netherwerks: [Monster] "Miasmagaster"
@Netherwerks: [Spell] "Processions of the Damned"
@Zalchis: [Table] "More Damned Things"
@A Field Guide to Doomsday: [Monster] "Bearcuda" Mutant Future.
@WotC: [Art] "Beholder Art Segmentation"
@Kobokd Quarterly: [Monster] "Astral Capreae" 4E
@DriveThruRPG: [Battle Map] "The Hall of the Well"
@DriveThruRPG: "108 Terrible Character Portraits"
@DriveThruRPG: "Raven Downs Dungeon Virtual Table Top Map Set"

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Free E-zines, Fiction, Star Trek, Comics, Movies, and More.

Wow, lazy space captain prepared a full post today? Must be some sort of plot. There are several good free fiction stories (Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror) including some flash fiction for those in a hurry. Audio fiction including Beam Me Up, Pseudopod, and Star Trek fan audio. Videos, cool comics, and more. And Lt. Bob presents his streaming Mooooovviiiiiieeee!!!




Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

"When Holt and Arlington show Jane some of the modern clothes and perfumes they brought from civilization, she is impressed but not enough to return. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun."







E-Zines
Issue #1 of Oniresmes "a bilingual webzine (English - French), dedicated to publishing short fiction and poetry that belong in the fields of speculative and fantastic literature (Fantasy, Science fiction, and all kinds of interstitial experiments)." is online (and available in epub and mobi downloads). Oddly requires a free membership to read/download. Featuring fiction:
"The Prophet's Daughters" by Michael J. DeLuca."Herophile, Prophet of Sybaris, stopped breathing. There was no noise, no cough, no rattle. Her breath had been so soft its absence hardly made a difference.""

A Map of the World on the Shell of a Snail
" by Lavie Tidhar."The map came to me from my uncle, the Great Ormond (they named the children’s hospital after him)."

and "She in Ashes" by Claude Mamier
"At the time there was nothing but darkness and warmth. It felt soft, and moist, the clamor of the outside world could not reach her shelter, and so did not exist."


Cafe Irreal #38 "a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English." [Magic Realism] is online with
Qualia by Andrew S. Taylor.
"The river has produced a number of extraordinary outcomes. When flowing under the bridge at night, it transforms the objects that float upon its surface."
A Woman On the Bus by Bob Thurber.
"The next time he saw her she was no longer pregnant, which he thought rather odd."
Hell by Remy de Gourmont
"Now he distilled the filthy sulfurs in the reddening vessel, stirred the pitch in the devil’s cauldron, cooked the tar sauce, measured the doses of boiling oil, dipped the Beloved’s blond hair and Lovers’ beards in resin, for their anniversaries of enchantment."
House of the Letter L by Owen Kaelin.
"The house of L is a tricky one, so tricky that at first we lose the butler, and then our shoes."
Glass Animals by Stephen V. Ramey.
"As best Malcolm could read, the sign had said “No Glass Animals in Pool.” The sign lied."
City by Maggie Mountford.
"Morag paid for the city in cash. She didn’t want any record. She bought the whole package: streets, boulevards, alleys, monuments, administrative offices, shopping malls, houses, statues, and people."

E-Fiction

@Amazon: Dead Girl Walking by Linda Joy Singleton (Kindle Only) [via SF Signal]
"Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction—so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience. She ends up in the body of the most popular girl in school, who has just tried to commit suicide."


@Small Beer Press: "Girl in a Whirl" by Joan Aiken. [via SF Signal]
"Her name was Daisy and she was a smasher, the crispest colleen in Killyclancy. Only, as misfortune would have it, old Mr Mulloon said she was unlucky"

@Suvudu: "Music Makers" by Kate Wilhelm (PDF). [via SF Signal]
"In this case, the protagonist is not one of those music makers to whom the title refers, but the music works its magic on him none the less."

Classic Fantasy
@Book View Cafe: "Dealing in Futures" by Judith Tarr, from WitchFantastic, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW 1995).
“Pigs,” says Circe, who crashed the meeting on a technicality. “Pork futures. Swine plague in—was it Gondwanaland?”








@Pendant Production: Free fan audio and original audio fiction downloads (all in glorious MP3).



@Beam Me Up: Episode #260 part two (the conclusion) of "The Heretic’s Son" by Fox Dunham.
"The ship is an ancient generation ship and it is wearing out. The prophet needs to come soon to guide the people to nu ome. Cody is sick and near death and nothing seems to make sense."

@Giant Gnome Productions: fan audio Star Trek Outpost Episode 24 "Drawing"
"With a great many things hanging in the balance, the denizens of DS3 learn that of all the things that can be hidden, the truth is the most difficult of all."

@Beware the Hairy Mango: all by Matthew Sanborn Smith [via SF Signal]
@Cthulhu: "The Mask of Romek" by T.C. McQueen part two (the conclusion).
"I started with the basement, the outlines in blood and chalk a mute testament to recent history. Other than the crime scene it was neat to an obsessive compulsive level, just like his office."

@Pseudopod: Episode 228 "Flash On The Borderlands VII" featuring:
  • "Hunting" by Kirsty Logan, by Rick Stringer.
  • "What Makes You Tick?" by David Steffan, read by W. Ralph Walters.
  • "Pageant Girls" by Caroline Yoachim, read by Mur Lafferty.






@Eschatology: "The Girl With Two Heads" by Richard Beland.
@Weirdyear: "Notch and Cages" by Lyla Abi-Saab.
@365 tomorrows: "Plaque" by Marlan Smith.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Hope Bites" by E. Cheshire.
@Flash Fiction Friday:








@YouTube: Mortal Kombat: Legacy is now up to episode 4
"Mortal Kombat: Legacy brings to life the complex and rich history of the gaming world of MORTAL KOMBAT. Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung are obsessed with reigning over various realms (parallel universes) and the winners of Mortal Kombat competitions are granted supreme control over these worlds."

@the Internet Archive: The Revenge Of Dr. X [1970] aka Venus Flytrap or The Revenge Of Doctor X.
"A NASA scientist vacations in japan where he uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures...misleading title there's no revenge and he's not doctor x.. based on the Frankenstein story"


Fan Film: @Star Trek: Phase II "Enemy: Starfleet"
"Attacked while exploring a new sector of space, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew find themselves thrust in the middle of a war. The USS Eagle, lost eight years before, is now in the clutches of a woman who bends starships and their captains to her will and has been reverse engineered into a fleet that is bent on domination and genocide. The Enterprise may be the only ship able to stop the Peshan homeworld from falling to Alersa and her enemy starfleet." This is the series that has had George Takei and Walter Koenig guest star in separate episodes. This issue guest Barbara Luna from the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror"







@DriveThruComics and Renderwrx Productions: Renderwrx Magazine #1.
"It's a free 40 page online magazine with commentary about varied aspects of the comic book industry. Plus it contains exclusive previews of upcoming comics, art and writing contests, interviews with comic book creators and lots more."



@The Horrors of It All: "The Stone Man!" and "Tower of Death!" classic monster and horror comics from Venus #17 (1951).




@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "Beowolf the Mighty" The Beowulf story re-imagined with Grendal being a T-Rex.

@Digital Comics Museum: Spotlight Comics #1, an anthology with stories of many genres, including a very cheesy skiffy story staring "Barry Kuda" and Merma, queen of the sunken city. CBR.

@The Comic Reading Library: The Invades #1 (1967). Based on the TV Series. Online.

@Atomic Kommie Comics: "The Hammer of Thor" (1959). Not the marvel superhero.

Other Coolness
@My Star Trek Scrapbook: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" article scanned from Home Video Guide (Oct. 1987).

@Monster Magazine World: "Monsters Are Forever" and "Scenes From Great Classic Horror Stories" Comic book/magazine articles on monsters and classic horror.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Wednesday Freebies (Fiction, Flash Fiction, Audio Fiction, and Gaming)

Free SF, Fantasy, and Horror. Enough said.










@The author's site: "Red Man" by Scott Sigler.
"It’s as if she’s tuned out everything but me. I’m a focus for hatred born from protective, aggressive fear for her child."

@Lightspeed Magazine: "The Harrowers" by Eric Gregory.
"Christ, I thought. And then: Of course—P.K.: Preacher’s Kid. Should’ve caught that earlier. I finished off the Yanjing, then opened the cooler and unscrewed a jar of whiskey. I’d heard of harrowers before, but never met one alive"

@Subterranean Press: "Queen of Atlantis" by Sarah Rees Brennan.
"The poison tides came in one burnt evening in late summer, and everybody knew it was time for the princess to be sacrificed."

Classic SF

@Munseys and Project Gutenberg: "Rich Living" by Michael Cathal, from Science Fiction (Feb. 1955).
"No other planet in the entire Galaxy was at all like Rejuvenal ... it was the only world worth one's whole fortune for a short visit!"

Serial Fiction
@Legend of the Five Rings: "The Destroyer War, Part 9" by Shawn Carman.
"Kakita Hideshi’s arm was numb to the shoulder, but he did not pause in his kata. The ranks of the Destroyers were noticeably thinner, with many of the beasts having been killed or retreated from the fierce fighting near the heart of the village."

Reviewed
@BestScienceFictionStories.com: "I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You In Reno" by Vylar Kaftan (2010). Reviewed with a link to the free story.






@StarShipSofa: Episode #187 featuring "Larisa Miusov" by Lucius Shepard.
"He would tell me stories. I think now they were true. They all take place in a huge room, an underground room bigger than a city, with machines and laboratories…but no walls dividing them. And always there were prisoners. Hundreds of prisoners."

@PodCastle: Episode #155 "Tending the Mori Birds" by Caroline M. Yoachim, read by Rajan Khanna.
"A Mori bird waited for him on the railing, its claws wrapped around the wood. The dying light accentuated the patch of red feathers at the base of its slender neck, the only color on an otherwise black bird."

@Dunesteef: Episode #101 "Becoming Brother" by Leo Godin.
"Billy is an outer, the lowest of the low. No respect from anyone. When his mother sends him out to gather weemer mushrooms for a recipe she’s cooking up, he has no idea just how much his life will be changing."

@Lightspeed: "The Harrowers" by Eric Gregory, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
See above in fiction.

@Cast Macabre: "Going West" by Elizabeth Creith. Horror.

@Lovecraft eZine: "The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft. Horror. Audio Drama.











Signs and Portents #92 is available for free download with highlights including:
Traveller - "A sequel to Otherworld Blues."
Lone Wolf - "While escorting dangerous criminals, the players find their ship wrecked by a storm..."
RuneQuest II - "A haunted gulch for any RuneQuest setting."




Other Gaming Gems