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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Bad Kitty” by Jason Dextradeur at Cast of Wonders.
• Listen to “The Box” by Christopher Munroe at Journey Into.
• Listen to “The Big Splash” by George R. Galuschak at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Clockwork Fagin” by Cory Doctorow at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Cord” by Chris Lewis Carter at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “The Gateway of the Monster (Featuring Carnacki)” by William Hope Hodgson at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “The Magick” by Kristina C. Mottla at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Listen to “The Man from the Future” by Edmond Hamilton at Dramapod.
• Listen to “The Man who was Dead!” by Thomas Knight at Dramapod.
• Listen to “The Name-Day” by Saki at Cast of Wonders.
• Listen to “Never Blood Enough” by Joe Haldeman at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “We Honor those Who Serve” by Steve Singleman at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “We Were Wonder Scouts” by Will Ludwigsen at PodCastle.

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In 2009, noted author China Mieville came to the University of Kansas for the Richard W. Gunn Memorial Lecture series. He spoke for over an hour, covering topics as diverse as the effects of H.G. Wells’ vision of the future on the genre and how science fiction sees itself today.

Via: AboutSF

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Gurnard” by Neal Asher at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “Kavar The Rat” by Thomas Owen at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Night Bird Soaring” by T. L. Morganfield at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Pony” by Erik Amundsen at Clarkesworld magazine.
• Listen to “Speed of Dreams” by Will Ludwigsen at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Staying Behind” by Ken Liu at Clarkesworld magazine.
• Listen to “The Trial of Thomas Jefferson” by David Barr Kirtley at Journey into…

Comics and Graphic Novels

• CBR offers a preview of Definitive Irredeemable, vol. #1
• CBR offers a preview of X-Men Regenesis #1
• Dark Horse offers a preview of Buffy Season 9 #2
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Baltimore: The Curse Bells #3
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Batman: Noel
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Dollhouse: Epitaphs #4
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Kull: The Cat and the Skull #1

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction “Curse Of The Were-Bat” by Tony Owens at AntipodeanSF.
• Read the flash fiction “The Finger” by Harris Tobias at Quantum Flash.
• Read the flash fiction “Full of Shadows” by Rose Blackthorn at Flashes in the Dark.
• Read the flash fiction “Hollow Planet” by D’n Russler at 365 Tomorrows.
• Read the flash fiction “The Life of Flame” by Joe Russell at 365 Tomorrows.
• Read the flash fiction “Once Bitten” by Jae Miles at 365 Tomorrows.
• Read the flash fiction “Rumplestiltskin – The Epilogue” by Natasha Cabot at .
• Read the flash fiction “Where Sea and Sky Kiss” by Dan Campbell at Daily SF.
• Read the flash fiction “Zombie Funeral” by Daniel Eness at Brain Harvest.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download Context by Cory Doctorow for the Kindle at Amazon.com. (Excerpt)
• Listen to an excerpt of Last Breath by Cassandra McNeil at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Context by Cory Doctorow at Torcom.
• Read an excerpt of Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist at Macmillan.
• Read an excerpt of The Other by Matthew Hughes at Archonate.
• Read an excerpt of The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells at the author’s website.

Poetry

• Birthing a Chimera by Joseph Fitzpatrick
• Frenzy by Mari Ness
• Haruspicy by Gemma Files
• like fireflies by Terrie Leigh Relf
• Response to Poe’s “Sonnet –To Science” by Scott Nickell
• Voyager by O. J. Cade

Short Stories

• Download “Clockwork Fagin” by Cory Doctorow at for the Kindle at Amazon.
• Read “Captain Bogey of Canine Command the Ball of Yarn Incident” by Rory Steves at Aurora Wolf.
• Read “The Coincidence Factory” by Fredrick Obermeyer at Electric Spec.
• Read “Destiny, With a Blackberry Sauce” by David J. Schwartz.
• Read “A Duel To The Undeath” by John C. Wilson at Short Story Me.
• Read “Escape” by Dean Francis Alfar at Philippine Genre Stories.
• Read “Eternal Virus” by Steve Stanton at Ray Gun Revival.
• Read “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “How We Fall” by Andrew Knighton at Redstone Science Fiction.
• Read “iTime” by Ferrett Steinmetz at Redstone Science Fiction.
• Read “Jackstraw Magic” by Eljay Daly at Gigantosaurus.
• Read “Justice Like a Mighty River” by Alter S. Reiss at Electric Spec.
• Read “Loaners” by Aaron Polson at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Lord of Endings” by John R. Fultz at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “Monkey Talk” by T. Lucas Earle at Electric Spec.
• Read “Monsters Monsters Everywhere” by Carrie Cuinn at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Pony” by Erik Amundsen at Clarkesworld magazine.
• Read “The Prophecy of Zarah” by Jenne Kaivo at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Secret Beach” by Tim Pratt at Fantasy Magazine.
• Read “Silently and Very Fast (Part One)” by Catherynne M. Valente.
• Read “Skin and Scales” by Rachel Bender at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Sky Full of Fire” by Corinna Sara Bechko at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “Staying Behind” by Ken Liu at Clarkesworld magazine.
• Read “The Stranger From Out of Town” by John Prescott at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “Tooth and Claw” by Rina Gonzales at Electric Spec.
• Read “The Visible Spectrum” by Julian Mortimer Smith at AE SciFi.
• Read “Waiting in the Light in the Hungry Months” by Megan Engelhardt.

Vintage Fiction

• Download the classic short story “Fair Game” by Philip K. Dick from If Magazine, along with many, many others at Univeros.

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Against Eternity” by David Farland at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “The Big Trip Up Yonder” by Kurt Vonnegut at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Box” by Christopher Munroe at Journey into Podcast.
• Listen to “The Dunwich Horror” (Part 1) by H.P. Lovecraft at 19 Nocturn Boulevard.
• Listen to “The Gateway of the Monster” by William Hope Hodgson at Podcastle.
• Listen to “Giving Birth” by Philip Roberts at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon at Miettecast.
• Listen to “Movement” by Nancy Fulda at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Orange” by Susan Forest at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Pandemic” by JF Bone at Dramapod.
• Listen to “We Honor Those We Serve” by Steve Singleman at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Yardwork” by Bruce Blake at Pseudopod.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Blood Dauber” by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Blue Tower” by Evelyn Smith at Drama Pod.
• Listen to “Braiding the Ghosts” by C.S.E. Cooney at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Chicken Heart” and “Revolt of the Worms” at Journey into Podcast.
• Listen to “Enoch and the Gorilla” by Flannery O’Connor at Miettecast.
• Listen to “Mr. Bronze radio play” by Kit St. Germain & Phil Voyd at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Playing Doctor” by Robert T. Jeschonek at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Secret Beach” by Tim Pratt at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “The Trial of Thomas Jefferson” by David Barr Kirtley at Journey Into.
• Listen to “The Troop” by Harris Tobias at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “The Voice In The Night” by William Hope Hodgson at Pseudopod.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Death And Michelle Jenkins” by Christopher Munroe at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Dolly” by Elizabeth Bear at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “From Paris, With Regret” by Starla Huchton at Peculiar Occurrences.
• Listen to “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K. Le Guin at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “Killing Merwin Remis” by Jason Helmandollar at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Middle Aged Weirdo in a Cadillac” by George R. Galuschak at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Secret Identity” by Paul Cornell at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Troop” by Harris Tobias at x.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Archaia offers a preview of Tale of Sand
• CBR offers a preview of Ghostbusters #1
• IGN offers a preview of Justice League Dark #1
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Incredible Hulk #1
• SFx offers a preview of Beyond the Fringe #1

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Listen to the flash fiction story “Second Puberty” by Matthew Sanborn at Beware the Hairy Mango.
• Read the flash fiction “Silent Questions” by J. Scott Kunkle at Powder Burn Flash.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download an excerpt of Snuff by Terry Pratchett.
• Read an excerpt of A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Lord of Souls by Greg Keyes at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of README by Neal Stephenson (Part 2) at Omnivoracious.
• Read an excerpt of The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham at Suvudu.
• Read an excerpt of Shadow’s Lure by Jon Sprunk at Black Gate.
• Read an excerpt of The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot by Margaret McNamara at Tor.
• Read an excerpt of The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein at Tor.
• Read an excerpt of Vacation by Matthew Costello at Tor.

Poetry

• Buying the Muse by Jacqueline West
• Wallpaper by April Grant
• Year of Miracles by Liz Bourke

Short Stories

• Read “The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment” by Martha Wells at the author’s website.
• Read “Broken” by Ian Donald Keeling at ideomancer.
• Read “Convent Geometry” by Georgina Bruce at ideomancer.
• Read “Day One” by Matthew Costello at Tor.com.
• Read “The Hunt” by Julius Vagdal at Aurora Wolf.
• Read “If the Shoe Fits” by John C. Tremblay at Aurora Wolf.
• Read “The Island of the Immortals” by Ursula K. Le Guin at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “The Night Children” by Alexander Gordon Smith at Tor.com.
• Read “Three Damnations: A Fugue” by James Alan Gardner at Fantasy Magazine.

Vintage Fiction

• Read the classic 1844 science fiction novelette “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne at Sam Houston State University.

Book: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! Strikingly True
ISBN-13: 978-1609910006

Series: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!
Publisher: Ripley Publishing
Genre: Non-Fiction / Trivia
Release: September 13, 2011
Length: 256 pages (Hardcover)

Verdict

Each time I pick up one of Ripley’s super-sized coffee table books, I can’t help but think that, if Reddit’s front page were a book, this would be it. (Except, you know, the complete lack of trolls.) Strikingly True is choked full of the same riveting sort of trivia, photos, and anecdotes that the lure me away from my work and onto the internet each day. Only, this compact version makes for an eye-catching centerpiece for your coffee table.

If, like me, you loose track of the time pouring over Digg, Reddit, and Tumblr online, you’ll love this latest entry in the Ripley’s Believe It or Not series.
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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “All The Cool Monsters At Once” by James Alan Gardner at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Arvies” by Adam Troy-Castro at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Bring On The Rain” by Josh Roseman at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Bubbles” by David Brin at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “The Eater” by Michael J. DeLuca at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “The Even Chance” by C.S. Forester at Journey Into…
• Listen to “Everything is Green” by David Foster Wallace at Miette’s Bedtime Story.
• Listen to “From Paris, With Regret” by Starla Huchton at Peculiar Occurrences.
• Listen to “Join” by Liz Coleman at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “The Parable of the Shower” by Leah Bobet at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Pack” by Robert Reed at Clarkesworld Magazine.
• Listen to “Signals in the Deep” by Greg Mellor at Clarkesworld Magazine.
• Listen to “Using It and Losing It” by Jonathan Lethem at Fantasy Magazine.

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