SF Tidbits for 5/4/09
By John DeNardo |
Monday, May 4th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Free Fiction & Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Falbe Publishing: Union of Renegades: The Rys Chronicles Book I by Tracy Falbe (2006).
- @Feedbooks: “Inside John Barth” by William W. Stuart (1960).
- @Manybooks: A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne (1877).
- @The New Yorker: “The Slows” by Gail Hareven. [via Locus Online]
- The latest Issue of Sorcerous Signals is out with fiction by Glenn Lewis Gillette, JJ Sergi, Morgan Bloodaxe, Christopher Schmitz, Anna Kashina, Rhonda Parrish, Abigail Carter, Deborah Walker, Atris Ray, and Della Buckland.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Beam Me Up: “Diddy Loves Dan – In the Toxic Waste” by A.K. Sykora, read by Paul Cole. and “The Next Logical Step” by Ben Bova, read by Ron Huber.
- @Well Told Tales: “Hardboiled Hell” by Phil Beloin, Jr., read by Andy Catt and Sherry Wine.
- @Pseudopod: “The Man Who Sank May” by Colin P. Davies, read by Alasdair Stuart.
- @The Classic Tales Podcast: “The Ghost In The Mill” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, read by B. J. Harrison.
- @Cthulhu: “The Street of the Four Winds” by Robert W. Chambers, read by Peter Yearsley.
- Broken Sea Audio has begun their fan audio version of Escape from New York. [via SF Audio]
- Zombie Astronaut has Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Greg Wise and Saskia Reeves, an unabridged reading of Frankenstein, and numerous shorter audio stories.
- @Fear on Demand: “Dark Eyes” by Pamela K. Kinney, read by Sonia Perozi.
- @The Internet Archive: six episodes of the classic Canadian radio drama series Vanishing Point, all adapted from stories by J.G. Ballard.
- Video:
- @The Internet Archive: “‘Tom Corbett, Space cadet’ Runaway rocket” (1954).
- Hulu is now streaming forty classic episodes of Tales of Tomorrow. [via Monster Rally]
- The fanfilm The Hunt for Gollum is now available for online streaming.
- Graphic Fiction:
- @Golden Age Comic Book Stories: “Kenton of the Star Patrol: The Monster-Men of Space!“
- @Those Fabuleous Fifties” a Tom Corbett, Space Cadet story from 1955 “Dangerous Cargo!“
- Minister Faust radio-interviews Robert J. Sawyer (Wake)
- The Secret Of Google’s Book Scanning Machine Revealed: http://tinyurl.com/cwmq5m [via Fimoculous]
- Heather Massey sez The Only Thing Worse Than A Trashy Romance Novel Is A Bad Science Fiction Novel: “…both science fiction and romance have something in common: namely, they are considered “ghetto” genres in some literary circles. The irony is that some of those circles involve fans of these very same genres.”
- io9 lists their 5 Favorite Star Trek Rip-Offs, much to consternation of B5 fans everywhere.
- Monday Funny: Walter Jon Williams shows us Why Having Wolverine’s Claws Would Suck.
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- REVIEW: Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
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Domo arigato, John!