The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Carnival Park” by Greg Van Eekhout at Starship Sofa.
• Listen to “Come All Ye Faithful” by Robert J. Sawyer at Podcastle.
• Listen to “The Firemen’s Fairy” by Sandra McDonald at Podcastle.
• Listen to “Halloween In July” by Kevin Anderson at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Images of Anna” by Nancy Kress at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “Little Ambushes” by Joanne Merriam at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Sleepy Joe” by Marc Laidlaw at Escape Pod.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read “The Automatonist’s Assistant” by Luc Reid at Daily Cabal.
• Read “The Creek Didn’t Rise” by Melanie Brown at Powder Burn Flash.
• Read “Deus Ex Machina” by Graeme Reynolds at Flashes in the Dark.
• Read “Getting Rid of the Monsters” by Nancy Jane Moore at BookView Cafe.
• Read the flash fiction “My Girlfriend Leaves the Atmosphere” by Angi Becker Stevens at SmokeLong Quarterly.

More Links

• Free Speculative Fiction Online has posted a yet another round of links to great fiction around the web.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Read the first chapter of “Odd and the Frost Giants” by Neil Gaiman.
• Download the fantasy novel “The Element of Fire” by Martha Wells at ManyBooks.
• Read an extract of “Gilbert and Edgar on Mars” by Eric Brown at PS Publishing.

Poetry

• “Gepetto” by Robert Borski
• “in the monastery of electromagnetic love” by Lynn Pattison at Farrago’s Wainscot
• “Magic, Midnight and Mischief” by Mari Mitchell

Short Stories

• Read “Article of Faith” by Mike Resnick at Jim Baen’s Universe.
• Read “Chain of Stars” by Jay Lake at Subterranean Press.
• Read “Crying Wolf on Mars” by Brian Trent at Strange Horizons.
• Read “Fluidity” by Eric Del Carlo at Futurismic.
• Read “Great, Golden Wings” by Rachel Swirsky at Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “In Dreams Tangible” by Su-Yee Lin at Fantasy Magazine.
• Read “Lake Of Dreams” by Christopher Lockhart at Abyss and Apex.
• Read “Light On The Water” by Genevieve Valentine at Fantasy Magazine.
• Read “The Regime of Austerity” by Veronica Schanoes at Strange Horizons.

Vintage Fiction

• Download “Dead Ringer” by Lester del Rey (1956) from ManyBooks.net.
• Download “The Last Days of Earth” by George C. Wallace (1901) from ManyBooks.net.

Zines and Periodicals

• The Autumn 2009 issue of Goblin Fruit is now online. Go read it now, it’s on of the best free literary zines out there.
• ClarkesWorld has posted its October issue, number 37, online.
• DayBreak Magazine is a new zine that will be posting new short stories on the second and fourth Friday of each month.
• Hub Magazine has posted it’s one hundredth issue! This issue features the short story “The Apprentice’s Sorcerer” by Dan Abnett.
• Readers can download the Fall 2009 issue of the Innsmouth Free Press or read it online.