The Great Geek Manual

Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to Accounting for Dragons at Eric James Stone at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Clockatrice” by Tanith Lee at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “Feathertop” by Nathaniel Hawthorne at The Classic Tales Podcast.
• Listen to “Sleepy Joe” by Marc Laidlaw at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Rapunzel” by Tanith Lee at PodCastle.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction Eating It Too by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• Read the flash fiction From the Book of Monsters: Yaramaz Turkish Carpets.
• Read the flash fiction Time Net by Duncan Shields at 365 Tomorrows.
• Read the micro-fiction Grown from Man to Dragon by Megan Arkenberg.
• Read the micro-fiction Predators and Parasites by Lori Titus at Flashes in the Dark.

More Links

• Free Speculative Fiction Online has posted a new batch of links.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Catch the first episode of Personal Effects: Dark Art’s free audio prequel novella: Personal Effects: Sword of Blood.
• Read all 25 parts of Robert J. Sawyer’s novel “Rollback” at Between The Covers.

Poetry

• “Instructions” by Neil Gaiman at Endicott Studio.
• “Resilience” by Nancy Jane Moore at Book View Cafe.
• “The Sorrows of Rutherford, the Amazing Talking Dog” by Daniel Wright at Strange Horizons.

Short Stories

• BSF names Five Science Fiction Stories About Kids With Powerful Objects.
• Read “And Their Lips Rang with the Sun” by Amal El-Mohtar at Strange Horizons.
• Read “Domovoi” by M. K. Hobson at DemiMonde, the author’s website.
• Read “The Empty Quarter” by Jane Routley at Linköpings Universitet.
• Read “The Fourth Concealment of the Island of Britain” by Katharine Kerr.
• Read “Galatea” by Vylar Kaftan at Heliotrope Magazine.
• Read “The Junkyard” by Joe R. Lansdale at the author’s website.
• Read “Steel Island” by A. K. Sykora at AfterBurn SF.
• Read “Thieves, Witches, and Gold” at Enter Three Witches.

Zines and Periodicals

• Apex Magazine has released its October issue, featuring the short story “Ghost Technology from the Sun” by Paul Jessup and more.
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies has posted issue 27, featuring The Pirate Captain’s Daughter and more, online.
• Bewildering Stories has posted issue 355 online.