The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “The ’76 Goldwater Dime” by John Medaille at Escape Pod.
• Listen “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu.
• Listen to “Choose Your Own Adventure” by Kat Howard at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “A Clown Escapes From Circus Town” by Will McIntosh at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Ghosts in My Head” by Cory Doctorow at Beam Me Up!
• Listen to “Messenger” by Erin M. Hartshor at Clarkesworld magazine.
• Listen to “Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride” by Saladin Ahmed at Podcastle.
• Listen to “Murdock The Nobody” by Kate Jonez at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “The Night Stalker” by Raymond Gates at Cast Macabre.
• Listen to “Red” by Melissa Yuan-Innes at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Tupac Shakur And The End Of The World” by Sandra McDonald.
• Listen to “Wizard’s Apprentice” by Delia Sherman at Podcastle.

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Book: Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide
ISBN-13: 978-0307719584

Author: The Bureau Chiefs
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Genre: Humor
Release: April 5, 2011
Length: 272 pages (Paperback)

Rating: B+ (90 / 100)

Verdict

The perfect book for a blogger to celebrate April Fool’s Day with. Written in a style that will feel very familiar to fans of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Write More Good is a modern day Devil’s Dictionary for the internet generation.

Pros: 90 percent original material. Hilarious from beginning to end.

Cons: Poses a huge distraction to getting anything done for about three days following purchase.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Anakoinosis” by Tobias S. Buckell at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Arvies” by Adam Troy Castro at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe at The Classic Tales Podcast.
• Listen to “Jaiden’s Weaver” by Mary Robinette Kowal at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride” by Saladin Ahmed at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Night Stalker” by Raymond Gates at Cast Macabre.
• Listen to “Terrible Lizard King” by Nathaniel Lee at Pseudopod.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara” by Christopher Kastensmidt at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Honing Sebastian” by Elizabeth Engstrom at Podcastle.
• Listen to “Lives” by John Grant at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy” by Desmond Warzel at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Perfect Lies” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “Sides” by Clay Dugger at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Listen to “State Change” by Ken Liu at Podcast.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Constitutional Crisis” by Cory Doctorow at Craphound.
• Listen to “The Curandero and the Swede: A Tale from the 1001 American Nights” by Daniel Abraham at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Dr North’s Wound” by John Dodds at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Endosymbiont” by Blake Charlton at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Hart and Boot” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Hurt Me” by M.L.N. Hanover at PodCastle.
• Listen to “To Ride Beyond the Wide World’s End” by Caitlin Brennan at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Three Oranges” by D. Elizabeth Wasden at Clarkesworld Magazine.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Breathing Sunshine” by Garth Upshaw at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Listen to “Cranberry Honey” by Amal El-Mohtar at Podcastle.
• Listen to “Grandfather Paradox” by Katherine Mankiller at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping” by Geoffrey Maloney at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Listen to “Out Of The Storm” by Rick Kennett at Dunesteef.

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Look what I got in the mail! Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide by the guys behind the FakeAPStlebook Twitter feed was delivered to my door step this morning from the good people at Random House.

It looks to be choked full of hilarious advice on every aspect of journalism, from writing page one headlines to covering obituaries. Even the book’s chapters are funny. Chapter two is entitled, “Politics: When the Horse Race Lasts Thirty Months.” Chapter seven is entitled, “The Shin Money Box, Or, Technology and the Death of all Paper.” Chapter thirteen (an apt choice) is entitled, “Media Law: You are So Screwed.”

I’m really looking forward to reading through this. I’d say that it looks informative, but paging through it here at my desk, I realize that I’ve already been following most of these rules for years here on my blog… So, here’s hoping its as entertaining as it looks.

Check out the blog of The Bureau Chiefs, and become a friend of the Fake AP Stylebook on Facebook.
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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “The Book of Phoenix” by Nnedi Okorafor at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “Card Sharp” by Rajan Khanna at Podcastle.
• Listen to “Catastrophe Baker And A Canticle For Leibowitz” by Mike Resnick.
• Listen to “State Change” by Ken Liu at PodCastle.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Comics Alliance offers a preview of Batman Incorporated #3
• MTV offers a preview of Ghostbusters: Infestation #1

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