The Great Geek Manual

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.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• CBR offers a preview of Batman: Earth One
• CBR offers a preview of Deadlands: Black Water #1
• CBR offers a preview of Fearless TPB
• CBR offers a preview of Dungeons & Dragons 100-Page Spectacular #1
• CBR offers a preview of King Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword #1
• CBR offers a preview of Scarlet Spider #1
• CBR offers a preview of Whispers #1
• CBR offers a preview of Wolverine #300
• iFanboy offers a preview of Demon Knights #5
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Dead Man’s Run #1

Flash and Micro Fiction

• 55 Fiction is a form of microfiction with a few rules, including a limitation to 55 words. The New Times holds an annual 55 Fiction competition, and some of the results are quite good: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
• Listen to the flash fiction story “Fine-Tuning the Universe” by Merrie Haskell.
• Read the flash fiction “Birds of a Feather” by Thomas Canfield at Short Stories.
• Read the flash fiction “Courtly Love” by Katherine Tomlinson at Luna Station.
• Read the flash fiction “A Dark Premonition” by Susan Martin at Weirdyear.
• Read the flash fiction “The Lightning Gun” by Antoinette Rydyr at Antipodean SF.
• Read the flash fiction “A Little Wild Mustard” by Danica Cummins at Brain Harvest.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download The Ashes of His Fathers by Eric James Stone for the Kindle.
• Download The Crows by G.P. Burdon from Smashwords.
• Download The Serpent and the Grail by A. A. Attanasio for the Kindle.
• Read an excerpt of 77 Shadow Street by Dean R. Koontz at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of Ashes of Candesce by Karl Schroeder at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Artic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison at Harper Voyager.
• Read an excerpt of Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind by Kitty Ferguson.
• Read “Spectral Expectations” the first story in the Goddesses & Other Stories anthology by Linda Nagata at BookView Cafe.

Poetry

• “Loki, Dynamicist” by Michele Bannister

Short Stories

• Read “Across the Metaverse” by John Krissilas at MindFlights.
• Read “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
• Read “Baby, Your Body’s My Bass” by Edward W. Robertson at Abyss & Apex.
• Read “Bird Nest Soup” by Madeline Bridgen at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “Clay Cast Cats” by TCA Lakshmi Narasimhan at WorldSF.
• Read “The Clockwork Swan” by Emily Graham at Abyss & Apex.
• Read “The Conversation” by Lawrence Buentello at Residential Aliens.
• Read “A Demon of Almansol” by Alter S. Reiss at Abyss & Apex.
• Read “Double Rations” by Nicky Drayden at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “The End of Owln’s Malt” by A.A. Garrison at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “Evolution’s End” by Lee Beavington at Kasma.
• Read “The Falcon” by Michael Aronovitz at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “The File” by Alexander Foxx at Residential Aliens.
• Read “Finders, Keepers” by Michael Jasper at the author’s website.
• Read “Gallery of Vanquished Art” by Daniel Ausema at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “Gene Wars” by Paul McAuley at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “The Goose and Cradle” by David Austin at Heroic Fantasy.
• Read “Her Long Hair Shining” by Simon Kewin at Abyss & Apex.
• Read “Human Resources” by Tristan Roybal at Quantum Muse.
• Read “Ice in our Veins” by Rhiannon Held at Redstone Science Fiction.
• Read “In the Cold” by Kelly Jennings at Strange Horizons.
• Read “In the Dead of the Night” by Gordon Rowlinson at Quantum Muse.
• Read “Killing Time” by Harris Tobias at Quantum Muse.
• Read “Land of Fire and Ashes” by Colin P. Davies at Abyss & Apex.
• Read “The Least of the Deathly Arts” by Kat Howard at Subterranean Press.
• Read “The Lion’s Den” by Devin Miller at Ray Gun Revival.
• Read “Motherhood” by Christopher Miller at Redstone Science Fiction.
• Read “Others” by Kelly Ledbetter at Residential Aliens.
• Read “Oubliette” by J. Kelley Anderson at Ray Gun Revival.
• Read “The Princess Trap” by Peter Darbyshire at Heroic Fantasy.
• Read “The Prowl” by Gregory Frost at Apex.
• Read “The Red Threads and the Green Man” by Kenneth Burstall at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard at Clarkesworld.
• Read “So Glad We Had This Time Together” by Cat Rambo at Apex.
• Read “The Softness of Her Throat” by John Hayes at Wiley Writers.
• Read “Sweetheart Showdown” by Sarah Dalton at Apex.
• Read “Swift, Brutal Retaliation” by Meghan McCarron at Tor.com.
• Read “Tea in the Sahara” by Daniel Braum at Kaleidotrope.
• Read “The Third Wish Is Always the Killer” by Louis N. Gruber.
• Read “A Time to Weep” by Daniel Huddleston at Abyss & Apex.
• Read “The Twenty Eighth Article” by Michael Bishop at Quantum Muse.
• Read “Under A Mound Of Earth” by Celestine Trinidad (Part 2) at Philippine Genre.
• Read “The Unexpected Geographies of Desire” by Fábio Fernandes.
• Read “Vici” by Naomi Novik at Fantasy Magazine.
• Read “Water Can’t Be Nervous” by Jonathan Carroll at Subterranean Press.
• Read “Wedding Wizard” by Heather Kuehl at Residential Aliens.
• Read “What Everyone Remembers” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.
• Read “The Wizard Maker” by Alyson B Cresswell at Another Realm.
• Read “You Have Never Been Here” by M. Rickert at Lightspeed Magazine.

Zines and Periodicals

• Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #39 is now available for free download.