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There are quite a few online ‘zines covering speculative, scifi and fantasy short fiction but this week I am reading and thoroughly enjoying Darwin’s Evolution. I’m only a few stories into the first issue but so far my attention has been held and more importantly I’ve found them entertaining.
There can be a tendency in short [...]

Transmissions From Beyond is a short fiction based podcast from TTA press, the people who produce in my opinion the best short fiction magazines available (Interzone, Black Static, Crimewave). Three episodes are already available, each containing one story read from each of the publications mentioned above.
I really can’t stress enough how good these magazines are, [...]

I’ve been usng Wowio.com for a while now as they had a nice service which provided free PDF downloads of ebooks and comics with embedded advertising and user information so you didn’t go spreading them around. It worked well and they have a decent selection of books and comics with quite a few very good [...]

Just one quick post whilst I have enough coal to keep the internet running here.
For those of you who didn’t sign up for the Tor ebook giveaway to promote the quite spangly new site, they have now made all the ebooks available to download until Sunday July 27th.
Go and grab them quickly before they disappear.
There [...]

Being a huge fan of both pulp fiction (the writing kind not the movie) and audio drama, I really can’t resist the lure of a full cast audio drama of a Conan the Barbarian story.
You can find most of the Conan stories online as ebooks, along with the rest of Robert E. Howard’s writing as [...]

I’m a sucker for comedy science fiction so this free ebook is going straight onto my reading list.
It’s the first in a series of four books, and is being given away for free which is a price I like. Obviously this is now becoming a common method of promoting a series/author and one that I [...]

Over at the brilliant Zombie Astronaut’s website you’ll find the unofficial/official podcast of the Canadian comedy science fiction radio series Canadia 2056.
I’m a few episodes in and really enjoying it. It’s the old “idiots/characters in space” format that made shows like Hitchhiker’s Guide and Red Dwarf so enjoyable and they really do have some great [...]

The steampunk scene has slowly moved away from just a small subgenre of fiction to an entire culture and weird sort of nostalgia for a time that never really existed but seems like it should have.
The people over at SteamPunk Magaine produce a very professional publication celebrating and discussing all things steampunk. They [...]

This ebook was released not long ago by Small Beer Press, the same people who recently released Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh as a free ebook.
It’s a great science fiction short story collection, I’m part way through but enjoying it. I’ll come back and add a real review when I’m done but [...]

As I tend to ignore most of the news on April 1st due to the oh so hilarious April Fool’s jokes, I missed the start of PodCastle, a podcast I had been looking forward to some time.
It’s from the same people who produce EscapePod and PseudopPod, two superb fiction podcasts. PodCastle follows in their footsteps [...]