The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “The Association of the Dead” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)” by Lord Dunsany at Podcastle..
• Listen to “Taking Care of Frank” by Antony Mann at Transmissions From Beyond.
• Listen to “Wolves Till the World Goes Down” by Greg van Eekhout at Podcastle.

Comics

• PKD Media is released a number of titles for free through MyDigitalComics, including Agents of C.O.L.T. and Mercury & The Murd.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction How Pluto became a planet again. at Name Your Tale.
• Read the flash fiction Passions in Orbit, a Stirring in the Pants at the Hairy Mango.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download The Choir Boats by Daniel A. Rabuzzi at Wowio. Described as a seagoing fantasy yarn that is like “Gulliver’s Travels crossed with The Golden Compass and a dollop of Pride and Prejudice.”
• Orbit Books is offering a preview of both of its titles The Unit by Terry DeHart and Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler.
• Read Chapter One of Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal.
• Read the first chapter of Kraken by China Miéville at Suvudu.
• Read the first chapter of The Office of Shadow by Matthew Sturges at Pyr.

Poetry

• Arsinoë’s Letter to Her Sister by Jacqueline West
• Madonna of the Cave by Sonya Taaffe
• Marcy Rode a Meteor by Samantha Henderson
• Natalie Merchant performs arrangements of 19th and early 20th century poetry.
• Only So Many by Rebecca Del Giorgio
• Zero Hour by Kristine Ong Muslim

Short Stories

• Read “Amor Vincit Omnia” by K. J. Parker at Subterranean Press.
• Read “A Better Mousetrap” by Mike Resnick at Concatenation.
• Read “The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu” by Grady Hendrix [Pt. 2].
• Read “Fare Thee Well” by Cathy Clamp at Tor.com.
• Read “Goliath” by Bruce W. Ferguson at Concatenation. [PDF]
• Read “The Guy Who Worked For Money” by Benjamin Rosenbaum at Shareable.
• Read “Manumission” by Tobias S. Buckell at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “Michelangelo’s Chisel” by Christopher Miller by ResStone Science Fiction.
• Read “Parable Lost” by Jo Walton at Lone Star Stories.
• Read “Pranks” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman at Lone Star Stories.
• Read “Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders” by Samuel R. Delany.
• Read “Violets for Lee” by Desirina Boskovich at Fantasy Magazine.

Vintage Fiction

• Download the “The Misplaced Battleship” by Harry Harrison at Project Gutenberg.

Zines and Periodicals

• Issue One of Basement Stories is now online, featuring “The Passion of the Vampire” by Ericka Kahler.