The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Black Petals” (Part 3) by Michael Moorcock at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “Fear of Darkness” by Christine Danse at Wily Writers Podcast.
• Listen to The Fire Of Asshurbanipal (Part 2) at the Cthulhu Podcast.
• Listen to “Gods of the North” by Robert E. Howard at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Hokkaido Green” by Aidan Doyle at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “I.C.U.” by Tim Burke at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Luna Voices on the Solar Wind” (Part 1) by Nick Wood at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” by Jason Sanford.
• Listen to “Perry Dawsey, Are You Okay?” (Part 1) by Scott Sigler.
• Listen to “Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine at ClarkesWorld.
• Listen to “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made” by Eric James Stone.
• Listen to “Trickster” by Mari Ness at ClarkesWorld.
• Listen to “Upon a Star” by Debbie Cowens at Wily Writers Podcast.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Artist Scott Allie has posted art from Angel & Faith on TwitPic. [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
• Bleeding Cool offers a preview of Crossed Psychopath 3
• CBR offers a preview of Black Beard: Legend of the Pyrate King TPB
• CBR offers a preview of Flashpoint: The Outsider #1
• CBR offers a preview of Infestation: Outbreak #1
• CBR offers a preview of Rage #1
• Comic Alliance offers a preview of Graveyard of Empires

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Listen to the flash fiction story “A Hell of a Licking” at Beware the Hairy Mango.
• Read the flash fiction “#260: Dark Entomology” by KC Wilder at Schlock Magazine.
• Read the flash fiction “The Alien Equivalent” by Harris Tobias at Weirdyear.
• Read the flash fiction “Fingertips” by Colin Meldrum at Schlock Magazine.
• Read the flash fiction “If Epictetus Wrote Dear Abby” by Adam Graupe.
• Read the flash fiction “Juliette & Justine: Dance of the Mummies” by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone at Schlock Magazine.
• Read the flash fiction “Jungle” by Peter Farrugia and Teodor Reljic at Schlock.
• Read the flash fiction “Oneiros and I” by Bettina Borg Cardona at Schlock.
• Read the flash fiction “Pirate!” by Rachel Agius at Schlock Magazine.
• Read “Sina” by Wes Parish at AntipodeanSF.
• Read the flash fiction “Papier” by Glenda Grande at Yesteryear Fiction.
• Read the flash fiction “a summer haunting” by David Massengill at Schlock.
• Read the flash fiction “Tale from a Save Point” by Nick Tramdack at Schlock.
• Read the flash fiction “There Be Monsters” by J. R. Lindermuth at Flashes.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download The 39 Clues by Rick Riordan for the Kindle from Amazon.com.
• Download Pumpkin Jack Skull and Other Tales of Terror by Jacob M. Drake.
• Download Victoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer by Colleen Gleason for the Kindle.
• Read an excerpt of The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout.
• Read an excerpt of Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr. at Tor.com.

Poetry

• Changeling by Myna Wallin
• Cut-throat by Vivekanand Jha
• Nothing but sky overhead by David Clink
• Plaster Messiahs by Marge Simon
• The Soft Key by Sandra Kasturi

Serial Fiction

• Listen to “Knights of the Rainbow Table” by Cory Doctorow at Craphound:
  • Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Read “Two Pieces of Tarnished Silver” by Erik Mona at Pathfinder Tales:
  • Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five

Short Stories

• Read “Abiit, Excessit, Evasit, Erupit” by Cody Little at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “The All-Night Truck Stop Polka Band” (Part 2) by Shaenon K. Garrity.
• Read “Baby Love” by Michael C. Keith at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Below the Tree Line” by Danica Cummins at Luna Station.
• Read “The Breaking” by Loren Eaton at at Port Iris.
• Read “Breathless” by Ivan Ewert at The Edge of Propinquity.
• Read “The Call of the Dance” by William Meikle at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Case of the Galloway Eidolon” by Bruce Durham at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Clex Are Our Friends” by Mario Milosevic at Daily Science Fiction.
• Read “The Clock That Never Stops Ticking” by Daniel DeVoto at Absent Willow.
• Read “Coming Home” by Steven Avila at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “The Confessional” (Part 1) by Cyan Abad-Jugo at Philippine Genre Stories.
• Read “Cycles” by Damian Rucci at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Darius Roy’s Manic Grin” by Brian Barnett at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Devil Wants A Word” by Rebecca Bohn at Luna Station.
• Read “Different Every Day” by Kyle McManus at Port Iris.
• Read “Fear of Darkness” by Christine Danse at Wily Writers Podcast.
• Read “The Fox” by Malinda Lo at Subterranean Press.
• Read “From the Spices of Sanandira” (Part 2) by Bradley P. Beaulieu.
• Read “The Ghost Party” by Richard Larson at Subterranean Press.
• Read “The Godslayer’s Wife” by Therese Arkenberg at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “Got My Eye on You” by Julie Jansen at Luna Station.
• Read “The Great Stellar Migration” by D.R. Pinney Little Cassie at Absent Willow.
• Read “A Guardian Angel’s Lullaby” by Krysti Meyer at Luna Station.
• Read “Humans Love You” by Tracy Canfield at AE SciFi.
• Read “An Infallible System of Roulette” by Christopher Miller at Redstone Sci Fi.
• Read “Influx Capacitor” by Eric J. Juneau at Kasma.
• Read “The Informers” by Gerard Houarner at Chizine.
• Read “Intelligent Design” by Sharon K. Reamer and Rob Rowntree at Port Iris.
• Read “Killing Time” by Robert Neilson at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Kohkum Knows Best” by Alina Pete at The Edge of Propinquity.
• Read “The Last Vampire” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch at the author’s website.
• Read “Let Women Keep Silence” by Huey Alcaro at Luna Station.
• Read “Lines of Steel” by Joseph Zieja at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Locked In” by Amitha Knight at Luna Station.
• Read “Love and Anarchy and Science Fiction” by Angela Ambroz at Redstone.
• Read “The Mirror” by Eva Eliav at Luna Station.
• Read “Motive, Means, Eventuality” by Gordon Grice at Chizine.
• Read “Nightfall” by D L Myers at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Noble Steed” by L J Perry at Luna Station.
• Read “Pandemic” by Pam Jessen at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “The Pillow Book of Liisa Härkönen” by Joe L. Murr at Chizine.
• Read “Pisspot Bay” by Elizabeth Massie at Chizine.
• Read “Queen of Atlantis” by Sarah Rees Brennan at Subterranean Press.
• Read “Rumpelstiltskin’s Lament” by Shelley Ontis at Luna Station.
• Read “Semiramis” by Genevieve Valentine at ClarkesWorld.
• Read “Signal to Noise” by Gemma Files at Chizine.
• Read “The Stiffening” by Nicole D. Sconiers at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “The Tattoo Artist” by Christian Riley at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Tennyson’s Prophecy” by Amanda England at Luna Station.
• Read “Their Changing Bodies” by Alaya Dawn Johnson at Subterranean Press.
• Read “The Tipler Cylinder” by Kelsey Rebehn at Luna Station.
• Read “Transcript of Interaction Between Astronaut Mike Scudderman and the OnStar Hands-Free A.I. Crash Advisor” by Grady Hendrix at LightSpeed Magazine.
• Read “Trickster” by Mari Ness at ClarkesWorld.
• Read “Unchambered Heart” by Jay Lake at Chizine.
• Read “Unearthly Awakening” by W.H. Pugmire at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “Uplifted” by Sabrina Furminger at Luna Station Quarterly.
• Read “Upon a Star” by Debbie Cowens at Wily Writers Podcast.
• Read “Valentines” by Shira Lipkin at Apex Books.
• Read “Virgin of the Sands” by Holly Phillips at Fantasy Magazine.
• Read “Wax and Wane” by Grant Palmquist at Chizine.
• Read “What the Bullet Sang” by Michael Ehart at Ray Gun Revival.
• Read “Willie” by Madeleine E. Robins at Book View Cafe.
• Read “The Wind Passes Like a Fire” by Brett J. Talley at Absent Willow Review.
• Read “Younger Women” by Karen Joy Fowler at Subterranean Press.
• Read “Your Cities” by Anaea Lay at Apex Magazine.

Vintage Fiction

• Download the short story “Lady Killer” by Chad Oliver from the March 1952 issue of Startling Stories magazine at the Internet Archive.
• Download the short story “The Martian Circe” by Raymond F. Jones from the Summer 1947 issue of Planet Stories magazine at the Internet Archive.
• Download the short story “Nine Shadows at Doomsday” by S. M. Tenneshaw from the November 1958 issue of Space Travel magazine at the Internet Archive.
• Download the short story “The Winking Lights of Mars” by Gordon A. Giles from February 1941 issue of Amazing Stories magazine at the Internet Archive.
• Download the short story “Asteroid of Fear” by Raymond Z. Gallun from Planet Stories at Project Gutenberg.
• Download the short story “Cube Root of Conquest” by Roger Phillips Graham from Amazing Stories at Project Gutenberg.
• Download the short story “Operation Haystack” by Frank Herbert from a 1959 issue of Astounding Science Fiction at Project Gutenberg.
• Download the short story “The Sphere of Sleep” by Chester S. Geier from Amazing Stories at Project Gutenberg.
• Listen to the classic short story “The Petrified Man” by Mark Twain at Craphound.
• Read the classic short story “The Simple Art of Murder” by Raymond Chandler.