• Free audio fiction: John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. Also, check out SFF Audio for some free, multi-part audio fiction from H.P. Lovecraft ("Despair" and "Herbert West: Reanimator").


• After some technical issues, ManyBooks.net is back with free science fiction:
  • "Greener Than You Think" by Ward Moore (1947)
  • "Victory" by Lester del Rey (1955)
  • "The Untouchable" by Stephan A. Kallis (1960)
  • "Gun for Hire" by D.M. Reynolds (1960)
  • "A Transmutation of Muddles" by Horace Brown Fyfe (1960)
  • "The First One" by Herbert D. Kastle (1961)
  • "A Spaceship Named McGuire" by Randall Garrett (1961)


• Daily Bits has links to 17 Sensational, Free and Downloadable Graphic Novels. [via Wil Wheaton]


• ActuSF interviews Lucius Shepard. "I write so-called general fiction as well as genre fiction, but what brings me back to fantasy and science fiction, particularly fantasy, is that they allow me a freedom that writing about ordinary things and lets me to do pretty much anything I want with my characters, to play with reality, hold it up to light obliquely and, if I'm lucky, to shine that light into some corners that have been gathering dust."


• Popular Mechanics looks at the return of the airship! [via Gravity Lens]


• Velcro-City Tourist Board (by the busy Paul Raven) has been named Hub Magazine's Best Website for Timewasting. I agree...it's the best time I ever wasted. Wait...that's supposed to be a compliment.


• Starlog reveals Secrets of Irwin Allen's Time Tunnel, which is nowhere near as dirty as it sounds. [via Illusion TV]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday January 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM
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