The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Chemical Magic” by Katherine Sparrow at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Death of a Spaceman” by Walter M. Miller at StarShip Sofa.
• Listen to “For The Lover of Mechanical Minds” by Brenda Cooper at StarShip Sofa.
• Listen to “The Outsider” by H.P. Lovecraft at 19 Nocturne Boulevard.
• Listen to “Songdogs” by Ian McHugh at PodCastle.
• Listen to the science fiction drama Edict Zero.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• ComicBookResources offers a preview of Angel: Illyria #1.
• Read a preview of Serenity: Downtime at USA Today.
• Read a seven page excerpt from Stephen King’s “American Vampire”

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction “Writer’s Brain on Caffeine” by Susan Kaempfer.

More Links

• Listverse offers a list of 10 Free Science Fiction Books Online.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Listen to a clip of Wil Wheaton reading “Byways” by Tobias Buckell from the Metatropolis: Cascadia anthology.
• Read an excerpt of The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman at Fantasy Hotlist.

Poetry

• A Day in the Life Of by Bruce Boston
• Space Junk by Marina Lee Sable

Short Stories

• Download “Plinth Without Figure” by Alexander Jablokov from F&SF Magazine.
• Read “Bread and Circuses” by Genevieve Valentine at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “Faces in Revolving Souls” by Caitlín R. Kiernan at LightSpeed Magazine.
• Read “Hokkaido Green” by Aidan Doyle at Strange Horizons.
• Read “Household Spirits” by C.S.E. Cooney at Strange Horizons.
• Read “Liminal” by E. Catherine Tobler at Fantasy Magazine.
• Read “The Popinjay’s Daughter” by Anne Cross at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “Sacrifice of the First Sheason” by Peter Orullian at Tor.com.
• Read “The Time traveler’s Son” by Jason Erik Lundberg at WorldSF.

Vintage Fiction

• Download “Eric Brighteyes” by H. Rider Haggard as an audio file from SFF Audio.

Zines and Periodicals

• Read Issue 24 of Crossed Genres, featuring “Flying With the Dead” by Sabrina Vourvoulias, “Sy Nebula and the Dream Tosser” by Angela Ambroz, and more.
• Read Issue 24 of Expanded Horizons, featuring “The Guest” by Zen Cho, “Parallel” by Eliza Victoria, and more.