The Great Geek Manual

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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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.

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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.

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