The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Chicken Little” by Cory Doctorow at the Internet Archive.
• Listen to “Epoch” by Cory Doctorow at the author’s website.
• Listen to “The Leech” by Robert Sheckley at 19 Nocturne Boulevard.
• Listen to “The Notebook of my Favourite Skin-Trees” by Alex Dally MacFarlane.
• Listen to “A Passion For Art” by David D Levine at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to the Witch Hunter Chronicles at Radio Drama Revival Episode.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Buffyfest offers a preview of Illyria #4.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction “Love Gun” by Edd Vick at The Daily Cabal.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #6, Sentinel by John Jackson Miller.
• Listen to Patrick Rothfuss read an excerpt from his novel, The Wise Man’s Fear.

Poetry

• Surreal Fortune by Bruce Boston

Short Stories

• Best Science Fiction Stories has compiled a list of 38 Awesome Alien Stories.
• Read “Arena of Shadows” by Sarah Zettel at Wizards of the Coast.
• Read “Breakaway, Backdown” by James Patrick Kelly at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “Dirt Witch” by Eljay Daly at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “Disambiguation” by Ian Sales at the author’s website.
• Read “Dolphin Safe” By Tina Starr at Dark Valentine.
• Read “Empire of Dreams and Miracles” by James Maxey at the author’s website.
• Read “Encore” by John Kenny at World SF.
• Read “The Ghost of Shinoda Forest” by Richard Parks.
• Read “The House that Made the Sixteen Loops of Time” by Tamsyn Muir.
• Read “Rainmaker” by Benjamin Thomas at Podcastle.
• Read “The Surgeon’s Tale” by Cat Rambo and Jeff VanderMeer at Podcastle
• Read “Visitors to the Inner Earth” by Professor Solomon at the author’s website.
• Read “The Weeping Woman” by R.C. Barnes at Dark Valentine.

Vintage Fiction

• Download The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft in the ePub or Mobi format.
• Download “First Man” by Clyde Brown at Project Gutenberg.

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Just in time for Valentines, Last.FM has posted tracks from Telling Tales by Neil Gaiman, including the short story “Harlequin Valentine.”
• Listen to “The Alarm” by Harris Tobias at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Dr North’s Wound” by John Dodds at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Galapagos” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Galapagos” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift at SFFAudio.
• Listen to “To Ride Beyond the Wide World’s End” by Caitlin Brennan at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Tricks of London” by Elizabeth Bear at Subterranean Press.

Read the rest of this entry » » »

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Before the Uprising” by Katherine Sparrow at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Hurt Me” by M.L.N. Hanover at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Liberation Spectrum” by Cory Doctorow at the Internet Archive.
• Listen to “A Professor At Harvard” by David Brin at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Special Delivery” by Damon Knight at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Written on the Wind” by David D. Levine at Escape Pod.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Comic Alliance offers a preview of Fables are Forever #1
• Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Buck Rogers Annual #1
• Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Liar’s Kiss
• Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Star Trek: Infestation #1
• Comic Book Resources offers a preview of The Walking Dead #81
• Comic Book Resources offers a preview of Warlash: Dark Noir Signed Pack #1
• Read a twelve page preview of Michael Moreci’s Quarentined.

Read the rest of this entry » » »

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Abandonware” by An Owomoyela at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Beauty Belongs to the Flowers” by Matthew Sanborn Smith at Tor.com.
• Listen to “Diving After the Moon” by Rachel Swirsky at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “The Force Acting on the Displaced Body” by Christopher Rowe.
• Listen to “The Invisible Kingdom” by Mark L. S. Stone at The Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Jumpers” by Mary Rosenblum at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Other People’s Money” by Cory Doctorow at The Murverse.
• Listen to “Plague Birds” by Jason Sanford at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Rejiggering the Thingamajig” by Eric James Stone at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Scroogled” by Cory Doctorow, read by Wil Wheaton at Craphound.

Read the rest of this entry » » »

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “The Bear in the Cable-Knit Sweater” by Robert T. Jeschonek.
• Listen to “The Bucket” by Eleni Konstantine and “Iteration” by John Kessel
• Listen to “Escape From Kathmandu” by Kim Stanley Robinson at StarshipSofa.
• Listen to “The Giving Plague” by David Brin at Transmissions From Beyond.
• Listen to “The Incredible Steam Man” by Ron Goulart at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “The Invisible Kingdom” by Mark L. S. Stone at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Jumpers” by Mary Rosenblum at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “On a Blade of Grass” by Tim Pratt at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Terrible Ones” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Tying Knots” by by Ken Liu at Clarkesworld Magazine.

Read the rest of this entry » » »

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “BMSE-May He Reign Forever” by Nathaniel Lee at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale” by Kurt Andersen at SFFAudio.
• Listen to “Is This Your Day To Join The Revolution?” by Genevieve Valentine.
• Listen to “May He Reign Forever” by Nathaniel Lee at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Schrödinger’s Cat Lady” by Marjorie James at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Terrible Ones” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Transmigration Of Aishwarya Desai” by Eric Gregory at TFB.

Read the rest of this entry » » »

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Angry Rose’s Lament” by Cat Rambo at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor’s Vengeance” by Daniel Abraham at PodCastle.
• Listen to “The Beautiful Coalwoman” by by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaudat.
• Listen to “Death’s End to Middleton” by Natania Barron at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Thousandth Night” by Alastair Reynolds at SFF Audio.
• Listen to “To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar at PodCastle.

Read the rest of this entry » » »