Well I’m assuming it’s steampunk given the lovely image they’ve produced to go with it and the fact that George Mann’s previous novel The Affinity Bridge is packed to the gills with steampunky goodness.
I’ve not read it yet but it’s being given away free as both a PDF and an audio reading so I might [...]
Neil Gaiman is currently touring to promote his new Children’s novel “The Graveyard Book” and at each venue is reading a different chapter.
The readings are being recorded and posted here so that the entire reading of the book can be watched for free.
I don’t know much about the book but I’ve never been dissapointed by [...]
Following on from his last giveaway, where he made his novel American Gods available to read for free online for a limited period comes this new promotion.
This time it’s the turn of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, which is the book I voted for last time as my choice of books to give someone who had never [...]
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 [...]
