The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “The Ballad of Delphinium Blue” by Samantha Henderson.
• Listen to “Beautiful Dreamer” by Edward McKeown (Part 2) at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Biba Jibun” by Eugie Foster at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Fruit Jar Drinkin’, Cheatin’ Heart Blues” by Patty Templeton.
• Listen to “Martian V F W” by Vandenburg at The Drama Pod.
• Listen to “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard.
• Listen to “Surviving the eBookalypse” by Randy Henderson at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “What Everyone Remembers” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to author Alberto Chimal of Mexico City reads his story “Variation on a Theme of Coleridge” from Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, an anthology of new Mexican fiction never before translated into English at Oneironomicon.
• Listen to “Balfour and Meriwether in The Vampire of Kabul” by Daniel Abraham.
• Listen to “Beautiful Dreamer” by Edward McKeown at Beam Me Up!
• Listen to “Black Hill” and “The Worm That Gnaws” by Orrin Grey at Journey Into…
• Listen to “The Day the Icicle Works Closed” by Frederik Pohl at Podmatic.
• Listen to “Found Manuscript” by David Lindblad at Cthulhu Podcast.
• Listen to “Health Tips for Traveller” by David W. Goldman at Toasted Cake.
• Listen to “Illusion” by Jean Rhys at Miette’s.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Download The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis from Ancient Faith.
• Listen to “Balfour and Meriwether in The Vampire of Kabul” by Daniel Abraham.
• Listen to “Blue Lace Agate” by Sarah Monette at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “The Milton Feinhoff Problem” by Mark Onspaugh at Journey Into…
• Listen to “Project Top Hat” by Julie Hoverson at 19 Nocturne Boulevard.
• Listen to “The Republic of the Southern Cross” by Valery Bryusov at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard at Clarkesworld Magazine.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Bad Dogs Escape” by James Patrick Kelly at EscapePod.
• Listen to “Black Hill” by Orrin Grey at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Catastrophe Baker Makes First Contact” by Mike Resnick at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Fermaville” by Paul Di Filippo at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “How Many Miles to Babylon?” by Megan Arkenberg at Lightspeed.
• Listen to “The Man Who Lived Backwards” by Charles F. Hall at Classic Tales.
• Listen to “Read This Quickly, For You Will Only Have a Moment…” by Stephen Case at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Listen to “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard.
• Listen to “A Window, Clear as a Mirror” by Ferret Steinmetz at PodCastle.

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Book: The Night Eternal
ISBN-13: 978-0061558269

Author: Guillermo Del Toro
Series: The Strain Trilogy, Book 3
Publisher: William Morrow
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Release: October 25, 2011
Length: 384 pages (Hardcover)

Book Rating: C- (65 / 100)
Series Rating: C+ (75 / 100)

Verdict

The Night Eternal is an unfortunately weak conclusion to the single most cinematic book series released in recent memory. Overall, the quality of the book is inconsistent with the previous two entries in the series. Even so, Del Toro’s horror trilogy might have gone down in history as one of the classics of the genre, if not for the eleventh hour incorporation of Christian mythology as the lynch-pin in the story’s climax. All in all, the book is nearly a complete disappointment.

Pros: Very cinematic prose. Excellent action sequences. Fantastic premise.

Cons: Inconsistent tone. Characters don’t ring true. Heavy reliance on deus ex machina devices. Sappy conclusion.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Ass-Hat Magic Spider” by Scott Westerfeld at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “A Fairy Tale of Oakland” by Tim Pratt at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Fortitude” by David Brin at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “A Hundred Thousand Armstrongs” by Zoltán László at The World SF Blog.
• Listen to “Limits” by Donna Glee Williams at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Long Winter’s Nap” by Catherine H. Shaffer at EscapePod.
• Listen to “The Mansion” by Henry van Dyke at Journey Into…
• Listen to “One Free Go” by Michelle Ann King at Wily Writers.
• Listen to “The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Til Human Voices Take Us” by Lewis Shiner at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Widdershins” by Robert Mammone at Pseudopod.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Download The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis from Ancient Faith.
• Listen to “The Ghost of Christmas Possible” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Misfit” by Marshal Latham at Journey Into…
• Listen to “Saint Nicholas’ Helper” by D.K. Thompson at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Watchbird” by Robert Sheckley at StarShipSofa.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• CBR offers a preview of The Activity #1
• CBR offers a preview of The Infinite TPB, vol. #1
• CBR offers a preview of The Last Battle #1
• Comic Attack offers a preview of Buffy Season 9 # 5
• Comic Attack offers a preview of Conan the Barbarian #1
• Read an excerpt of The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman at Tor.com.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction “Blang!” by Harris Tobias at Quantum Muse.
• Read the flash fiction “Through the Uprights” by Richard Butner.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download Silence the Siren by Jackie MacKenzie at Smashwords.
• Listen to an excerpt of Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson or read the first chapter at the author’s website.
• Read an excerpt of The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham by Nick Mamatas and Brian Keene at Weird Fiction Review.
• Read an excerpt of Postcolonialism and Science Fiction by Jessica Langer at io9.
• Read an excerpt of Switchblade Goddess by Lucy Snyder at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King at Tor.com.

Poetry

• “The Cabin and the Stars” by C. G. Olsen
• “Imageography” by Robert Frazier
• “On Moving Into Your New Home” by Brit Mandelo
• “Persephone in Autumn” by Mary Turzillo

Short Stories

• Read “Among the Dark Places of the Earth” by Julio Toro San Martin.
• Read “Ash and Dust” by Jennifer Mason-Black at Strange Horizons.
• Read “At Best An Echo” by Bradley H. Sinor at Lovecraftzine.
• Read “Beaumains” by Jo Thomas at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Billy O’Bannon’s Time Travel Dating Service” by Joseph L. Kellogg.
• Read “Black Betty” by Nisi Shawl at Crossed Genres.
• Read “A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings” by James Alan Gardner at Tor.com.
• Read “The Curator” by Stuart Clark at the author’s website.
• Read “Digitall” by Stuart Clark at the author’s website.
• Read “Elder Instincts” by W.H. Pugmire at Lovecraft Zine.
• Read “If Dragon’s Mass Eve Be Cold And Clear” by Ken Scholes at Tor.com.
• Read “Just An Accountant” by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen at Lovecraft Zine.
• Read “Kolkata Sea” by Indrapramit Da at The World SF Blog.
• Read “The Last Recall” by Mason Ian Bundschuh at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Life in the Clouds” by Helen Lowe at the author’s website.
• Read “Maldoror Abroad” by K.J. Bishop at Weird Fiction Review.
• Read “The Mirror Men” by Stuart Clark at the author’s website.
• Read “My Other Half” by Maria Stanislav at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Nameless” by Helen Lowe at the author’s website.
• Read “Neural Net” by Ken Schneyer at Ideomancer.
• Read “The Orange Tree” by T.O. Giwa at StoryTime.
• Read “The Orphan Queen” by Michael John Grist at Ideomancer.
• Read “Paradox” by Lane Diamond at Smashwords.
• Read “The Parting Glass” by Andrew Penn Romine at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “Pawn to King Four” by Timothy Zahn at Baen.
• Read “Portrait of a Courtesan” by Megan Arkenberg at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Reading in Bed” by Joan Aiken at Tor.com.
• Read “The Remote-Controlled Doggirl” by Lara Ek at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Second Place” by Sarah A. Drew at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Signs Following” by Erica Satifka at Ideomancer.
• Read “Stone City, Old as Immeasurable Time” by Kelda Crich at Lovecraftzine.
• Read “Young Lions” by Zachary Jernigan at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Zeppelin Follies” by Cat Rambo at Crossed Genres.

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Aldo” by Michael C. Thompson at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Chicken Noodle Gravity” by J. Daniel Sawyer at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Heroics of Interior Design” by Elise R. Hopkins at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Hunted Heroes” by Robert SilverBerg at DramaPod.
• Listen to “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen at Classic Tales Podcast.
• Listen to “Ties of Silver” by James L. Sutter at PodCastle.
• Listen to “To My Wondering Eyes Did Appear” by Larry C. Kay at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Torn Away” by Joe R. Lansdale at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “Watchbird” by Robert Sheckley at StarShipSofa.

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