““So what’s the Mason’s deal, exactly?” Nicolette said, retaking her seat. “She wants to exterminate all life?”
Crapsey turned his chair upright and sat back down. “Nah. Not all life. Things that aren’t sentient don’t bother her much, though she doesn’t have any particular affection for them. It’s mostly people she can’t stand, and dolphins. Practically [...]
The Curse of Capistrano – Johnston McCulleyhttp://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/markzorro.htm
Repression and oppressive taxation grows in one corner of California. Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word ‘fop’ if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it.
As one of the local military says “he is about as dangerous as a lizard basking in [...]
Continue reading about The Curse of Capistrano 01 – Johnston McMulley
““As I explained to Gail earlier, we ended up divided. Half of Black Lodge wanted to enact an old ritual that called for the sacrifice of a human infant. Summoning Leviathan and Behemoth—opening a doorway for them to enter our world, required the sacrifice of an infant. A number of our members believed that banishing [...]
““There are thirteen entities—supernatural beings—neither demon nor angel, but something far older and far more powerful, whose only goal is the complete destruction of all creation and existence. They are older than our universe and they intend to be here still when our universe is gone. Are any of you familiar with string theory or [...]
Old flame’s Miskatonic Jersey hillbilly transformation.
4 out of 5
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_150_Paul_Di_Filippo.mp3
Old flame’s Miskatonic Jersey hillbilly transformation.
4 out of 5
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_No_149_Adam_Troy_Castro.mp3
Old flame’s Miskatonic Jersey hillbilly transformation.
4 out of 5
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Aural_Delights_No_148_Lucius_Shepard.mp3
There’s a death trap for every type of superhuman.
3.5 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-15.mp3
Continue reading about She Blinded Me With Science 3 – Mercedes Lackey and Dennis Lee
Deathtrap time in the Golden Catacombs for Bull’s team.
4 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-14.mp3
Continue reading about She Blinded Me With Science 2 – Mercedes Lackey and Dennis Lee
“”Don’t be stupid!” the old man scolded. “Sentient creatures that’ve been on this planet maybe longer than we have. What might they know? Trees too. Thousand-year-old sequoias — centuries to process the hormonal messages in their cells! And creosote bushes — there’s a budding hive mind for you! Ravens and crows. Even coyotes. We don’t [...]
“She thought of her father, frustrated because decades of SETI had revealed no messages. It was weird to believe this old man knew something no one else did. But something had happened to Sam Ferenzi in space, and though he looked a hundred years old, she knew from the biography she’d read he couldn’t be [...]
““Jaguar!” she shouted. “This is the Mason! Call off your goons, unless you want me to chop them all into bone meal!” She kicked and spun, slashing with her dagger to drive back the other skeletons. The vast shape in the gathered shadows beneath the dome shifted. After a moment the remaining skeletal guards drew [...]
“Androgeos had the irritating habit of replying to questions with variations of “Don’t worry about that,” shrugging off detailed explanation. The team was not to worry about interchange of disease, the problem had been solved millennia before. They were not to be curious about other alien beings. The alien humans’ ship moved; Victoria must not [...]
“Androgeos had the irritating habit of replying to questions with variations of “Don’t worry about that,” shrugging off detailed explanation. The team was not to worry about interchange of disease, the problem had been solved millennia before. They were not to be curious about other alien beings. The alien humans’ ship moved; Victoria must not [...]
““The assistant manager of the bookstore,” Clara told her. “He calmed down once we got him out of the sewer. As far as we can tell he’s the only one in the entire town who made it.” She frowned in anger. “He says he doesn’t remember how he got down in that sewer. The deputies [...]
Red Nails – Robert E. HowardDownload Conan – Red Nails
Conan is travelling, finds a dead woman, and then encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. After trading some insults, they have the misfortune to stumble across a dragon.
Then they have fun in an abandoned city full of crazed warriors, two evil leering royals, and a third [...]
Red Nails – Robert E. HowardDownload Conan – Red Nails
Conan is travelling, finds a dead woman, and then encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. After trading some insults, they have the misfortune to stumble across a dragon.
Then they have fun in an abandoned city full of crazed warriors, two evil leering royals, and a third [...]
Red Nails – Robert E. HowardDownload Conan – Red Nails
Conan is travelling, finds a dead woman, and then encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. After trading some insults, they have the misfortune to stumble across a dragon.
Then they have fun in an abandoned city full of crazed warriors, two evil leering royals, and a third [...]
Red Nails – Robert E. HowardDownload Conan – Red Nails
Conan is travelling, finds a dead woman, and then encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. After trading some insults, they have the misfortune to stumble across a dragon.
Then they have fun in an abandoned city full of crazed warriors, two evil leering royals, and a third [...]
Red Nails – Robert E. HowardDownload Conan – Red Nails
Conan is travelling, finds a dead woman, and then encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. After trading some insults, they have the misfortune to stumble across a dragon.
Then they have fun in an abandoned city full of crazed warriors, two evil leering royals, and a third [...]
“”All right. Here’s the truth. I got busted for doing drugs at a party. One rotten joint — and if I’d been eighteen already like everybody else it would’ve been legal anyway. So the judge gave me community service.”
“Good,” Sam said. “I don’t have time for lies. What would you rather be doing — besides [...]
“”I’m not joining the enemies of the All-Sovereign,” I said. “I’m already in the club, you boobs! I’ve got the membership card and the god-damn secret decoder ring! He killed the Doc and tried to kill me! He declared war on Violet DeVere, and Violet DeVere is happy to return the favor!”
“That seems adequate to [...]
Continue reading about Queen of the Iron Sands 5 Part 1 – Scott Lynch
A dodgy band of dodgy heroes gets a dubious new member.
3.5 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-13.mp3
Continue reading about She Blinded Me With Science 1 – Mercedes Lackey and Dennis Lee
““Are you displaying curiosity, boss?” Crapsey said. “First you use healing magic, now you’re wondering about psychological motivations and shit. Are you going soft on me?”
“No,” the Mason said. “Insight into such points of divergence may prove useful when I go forth to conquer the other worlds in the multiverse. Come. If Marla Mason likes [...]
““Anyone is free to refuse payment to a healer,” Snake said. “We carry weapons only for defense and we never make threats. But we do not go where we are not welcome.”
“You mean you boycott any place that doesn’t please you.”
Snake shrugged. ”
3.5 out of 5
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/Dreamsnake08
“The immense slugs hoisted themselves up the stairs. One crawled up the door, obscuring it. Infinity stood back, motioning to the other people not to crowd the slugs too closely. A haze of acid and vaporized stone spurted from the entryway. As the door collapsed, the slug slumped with it, then crawled into the building. [...]
“20.
“Do any of them have guns?” she asked, petrified.
“Not likely,” Arkeley told her. “They’re weak, and their bodies are soft with decay. If one of them tried to fire a gun the recoil would blow its arm off.””
3.5 out of 5
http://www.brokentype.com/thirteenbullets/2006/02/20.html
I just want my own little show.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_183/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_183_Jammie_Dodgers_2.mp3
Nope, I’m outta this shitty church planet.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.podiobooks.com/sample/76099/PB-RookieRM-02.mp3
““Tell me now or I’ll shoot off your feet,” Arkeley said.
“My master awaits you, and you won’t like him so much!” the half-dead crowed. “He says you’re going to die!”
“Tell us the goddamned message,” Caxton growled.
The half dead shook and rattled, its bones straining against the wire. As if the simple effort cost it enormously [...]
“She wore neither protective suit nor breathing apparatus, only an LTM, for broadcasting to Chi and to Starfarer, on her collar. The alien beings assured her that it was safe to go outside, and she chose to believe them.
Satoshi’s voice reached her through the exterior speaker.
“They’re right about the air, J.D.,” he said. [...]
Take the QB deal, or the family gets it.
4 out of 5
http://www.podiobooks.com/sample/76098/PB-RookieRM-01.mp3
““She tries to charm her way out, to talk her way out, she even eats one of the doctors but it’s no good. You’re sitting on her, just waiting for her to do something bad so you can punish her. She can’t just give up, though. She’s going to live forever, locked up in a [...]
“J.D.’s imagination created a scene that bore no relation to the inside of a computer or to the inside of an organic system. She had wondered what she would see when her attention left the main room of the partnership’s house, whether she would enter a phantom world of hugely magnified digital gates or pulsing [...]
““Now, come, let’s collect the boys.” They rose and headed into the kitchen, where Arkeley and Urie sat around an enormous table that had once been a door and now was mounted on plain wooden trestles. They had between them a pile of small objects, triangular in shape and almost pearlescent in color. Caxton picked [...]
““If you lay hands on anyone on board,” Kolya said, “anyone… I will kill you. Do you understand me? I’m the only person on the starship who would make that threat. And I’m the only person on the starship who can carry it out.””
2.5 out of 5
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/Transition-09
““If you lay hands on anyone on board,” Kolya said, “anyone… I will kill you. Do you understand me? I’m the only person on the starship who would make that threat. And I’m the only person on the starship who can carry it out.””
2.5 out of 5
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/Transition-09
““Laura,” someone said and this time it wasn’t just in her head. But that voice—so familiar, so impossible. It was her father’s voice.
He stood there. Behind her. One of the skins had lifted away from the rack, flapped away and folded itself into a mostly human shape. It had her father’s voice, and his eyes. [...]
““I must sound completely paranoid,” Victoria said. “It’s not as if I think we’re in some horror movie being stalked by The Creature from the Genetics Lab.” She took a deep breath. “I’ll be back in a minute.” She started for the hallway, carrying the fruit juice. “But I sure never heard of any kind [...]
“Mungo pushed back the sleeves of his leathers. They weren’t intended to be push-backable, but they were pushed back all the same. He cleared his throat. “You can’t run away from the responsibilities you’ve created, boyo. You’ll have to marry her now and make an honest woman of her.”
“Squigs wildly started to say that he [...]
Continue reading about Save the Dragons Epilogue – Dave Freer
““The spacecraft of alien beings,” J.D. said aloud, forgetting not to interrupt.
“Oh, now!” Gerald Hemminge exclaimed. “Alien beings waiting for us?” He snorted.
“Quite likely it was an observation post,” Avvaiyar said. “It must have been here — who knows how long? Automated. An AI. Like the dome. It detected us, it went to [...]
“He wondered, not for the first time, whether “opera” was short for “operation without anesthetic.” Well, as a warning he’d play some of that . . . what was the fellow’s name? The one who was . . . fond of children. That stuff would make any mere devil or imp run screaming, clutching their [...]
“J.D. longed to take the meerkat out of the sample case. She still had never touched its graceful curves with her bare hands, only through gloves. But it would be a mistake to open the box, a mistake to indulge herself and pass the sculpture around. It was too precious.
“The protocol calls for quarantine [...]
“Korg gave a gusty sigh. “Sorry, mate. Not used to all this inactivity. As for teaching these rock-bodies . . . I’d need a diamond edge to my axe, or better still a rock-drill to get anywhere with these blokes.”
Squigs nodded distractedly. “Yeah. The devils and demons are tougher too. Purer silicates. What you [...]
“Her heart was pounding. The strange warmth of her metabolic enhancer created a physical pressure within her body. The artificial gland, implanted in her abdomen, pumped out extra adrenalin, endorphins, adenosine triphosphate. It raised her blood pressure, her heart rate. She could call on it to increase her endurance beyond her usual limits when she [...]
““We’re wasting daylight,” he told her. “Get up.”
She shook her head. That was a bad idea. She hiccoughed and a ribbon of bile shot out from between her lips. Her breakfast came up in one great rush, a brown spray she couldn’t hold in. She rolled over on her side, her body shivering uncontrollably. “I [...]
““Grobos! No!” Ironspell screamed a warning as the fallen Runesblood came flying back into his hand. But he was too late to save the gnome.
The she-demon wrapped her arms about the stunted wizard’s neck. Her serpentine tale encircled his body, squeezing with unearthly might. Ironspell heard the gnome’s bones cracking even as Grobos moaned in [...]
Continue reading about The Weird of Ironspell 6 The Tomb of Azazar – John R. Fultz
“He wouldn’t pass for human, except possibly around Piccadilly Circus, where aliens from Betelguese and further afield have been known to spend several weeks, only ever being noticed by muggers, who respond poorly to their “take me to your leader” statements. But one glance at the wrinkled-map face, and the single rheumy eye peering over [...]
““My name is Snake, Melissa.” Snake held out her hand and the child shook it watchfully. “Will you ride Squirrel for me?””
3.5 out of 5
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/Dreamsnake07
“The only clue as to where the dwarf could have got to was a love-starved weedeater gazing longingly downstream from the battlements.”
3.5 out of 5
http://savethedragons.nu/chapter21.html
““Will it leave a scar?” the mayor asked.
“Yes,” Snake said, surprised. “Of course. Several. I took out quite a lot of dead muscle, and it will never all fill back in. You probably won’t limp, though.””
4 out of 5
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/Dreamsnake06
“”So I can wait no longer?” M’lord Strate said to the seven beings in the sulphurous-smoky room. All of those he consulted bore an unmistakable stamp. True, they weren’t wearing ties, that normal trademark of the investment banker, stockbroker or market manipulator. Two of them would have had serious problems doing so, as they were [...]
“Arkeley snorted. “No. In ‘93 I did a little extemporaneous experimentation on Malvern. I brought a jar of minced garlic into her room and when Armonk wasn’t looking I dumped it all over her. It made a pretty good mess and it pissed her off but no, no lasting harm. It might have been mayonnaise [...]
Busted Blue Reverie repair.
3.5 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-12.mp3
Continue reading about No Illusions – Mercedes Lackey and Veronica Giguere
“”My dear Hu. The agency has been trying to penetrate their senior ranks for several hundred years. We’ve been so effectively blocked, that Sylvester thinks they must have penetrated us. Higher up. I,” he said, “have another theory.”
Huigi flicked anther glance at Squigs. “And that is?”
“Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes, my dear boy,” said the Count, [...]
“She studied with Alethia during the designated study times. The blind girl read by running her fingertips over raised notches in special books. It is Braille, she explained to a curious Katherine once. Braille is designed for the blind as a kind of tactile alphabet. We can feel our letters.”
3 out of 5
http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/original-fiction-“the-basics-of-flight”-ch-6-by-joyce-chng/
“I don’t like angels. They’re condescending and haughty at their worst, and obnoxiously stupid at their best. Angels are idiots. But even so, they shouldn’t be demonic doormats. Even they deserve better than getting hoofprints on their backs.
Especially when the one doing the walking is a pretentious asshole of an Archangel.
Michael, shrieking His holy ire [...]
““Who has done this?” Tumnal asked when the pace of their horses slowed a bit. The mounts must rest or die of exhaustion. Still, Ironspell rode on at a slow trot.
“A sorcerer I killed years ago,” Ironspell said. “Twice.””
3.5 out of 5
http://www.blackgate.com/2010/06/01/original-fiction-the-weird-of-ironspell-by-john-r-fultz-5/#more-8009
Continue reading about The Weird of Ironspell 5 The Son of Ironspell – John R. Fultz
“Eyes peered into the foggy darkness lit intermittently with flashes of yellow-green. There were bright spots in the sky, like stars. The stars gradually became brighter and brighter, until they became the form of lamps on leo-fins. A flight of leo-fins, all six of them, appeared, bold as courage, and lifting everyone’s spirits instantly. Everyone [...]
“He squatted beside the cactus and slid his fingers in between the thorns. Frowning, he stroked the leathery skin.
“It looks okay to me,” Esther said.
Infinity shrugged unhappily.
“Maybe it’s got cactus blight,” Esther said.
“It shouldn’t have anything. It’s cloned from a cell stock. Virus free.” ”
3 out of 5
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/Transition-04
“Iesu Grist. Call me a superstitious peasant if you like,” Ceri murmured, “but I think the Masters of the Universe just stepped in.”
3 out of 5
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2010/06/graffiti-in-library-of-babel-by-david_3639.html
Continue reading about Graffiti In the Library of Babel 2 – David Langford
“”What do you think this is,” she asked, “some kind of portal and the aliens send one guy to it every ten years or so? Is this an invading army that hasn’t quite got the concept down?””
3.5 out of 5
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2010/06/dark-man-by-kristine-kathryn-rusch-part_11.html#more
Continue reading about The Dark Man 3 – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Gail turned to Simon. “How did you do that?”
“It was easy,” he replied. “However, like any other fire, it won’t last without more fuel. I suggest we cook our dinner and savor the warmth the fire brings. While it’s cooking, perhaps we can gather some more wood.”
“Do you have pyrokin…” Novak frowned. “Pyrokinesis?”
“That’s the scientific [...]
“”We decided all by ourselves to call them tags.” The faint smile indicated that Joseph was still in a mood for point-scoring.
“Okay. I see.” She didn’t, but in a moment it came. “Not just graffiti but mark-up, like HTML or XML tags. Emphasis marks. You think they’re not so much defacing the texts as going [...]
Continue reading about Graffiti In the Library of Babel 1 – David Langford
“I am no gentleman, but I am discerning. And what I am discerning right now is a HTC Screenparty Mark I phone, circa 2014, running some ancient and crumbly version of Google’s Android operating system and there, right there, on the back panel, is a pair of fisheye lenses: one is the camera. The other [...]
“”Are you one of those — what do you call it in English? Psychic investigators?” He used the English words for that last part, and he didn’t try to hide his contempt.
“I’m not psychic,” she said, “but I am hungry. Join me?””
3 out of 5
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2010/06/dark-man-by-kristine-kathryn-rusch-part_09.html
Continue reading about The Dark Man 2 – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“She combined all of her data, and learned that the figure appeared with startling regularity. The average paranormal investigator never noticed because the appearances weren’t to the minute. The paranormal investigators found that the figure appeared roughly every ten years within a particular time frame, but none of them had taken the time (or maybe [...]
Continue reading about The Dark Man 1 – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Blue goes Seraphic sidekick.
4 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-11.mp3
Many times and changes for John Murdoch, plus the old Blue.
3.5 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-10.mp3
Continue reading about Respect the Wind 2 – Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin
“Rondeau shook his head. “Technically it’s not a mirror universe. In a mirror universe all the good guys are evil and all the bad guys are good. Like, for instance, Superman and Batman are warlords and Lex Luthor and the Joker are superheroes. If Sanford Cole was over here sitting on a chair made of [...]
““Sympathetic magic,” Marla said. “We told Beta-B that was Hamil’s specialty.”
Beta-B nodded. “Once I thought about it, the idea was obvious. Since you’re genetically identical to the Mason, it would be trivial to create a sympathetic magical resonance between the two of you, to make you magically identical as well. In effect, we wanted to [...]
“McCann shrugged. “No sense not believing in something that’s right there in front of your face. We’re in Hell, Gail. Only difference is that Hell isn’t hot. It’s wet.””
3 out of 5
http://www.briankeene.com/?p=4051
“I showed him the big grin. It’s a sight that has made grown men piss themselves, and it doesn’t come without cost. I’d have a sore jaw for a few hours after exposing a smile that resembles a box of long nails.”
2.5 out of 5
http://paizo.com/pathfinder/tales/serial
“That’s it,” said Paimei. Her fingers closed on his shoulder. “You’re out the airlock, buddy.”
3.5 out of 5
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2010/05/permanent-fatal-errors-by-jay-lake-part_31.html
“Instead of trying to work that out, he stared at Tiede 1’s churning orange surface. “Who are you? What are you doing in there? What does it take to fake being an entire star?”
3.5 out of 5
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2010/05/permanent-fatal-errors-by-jay-lake-part_28.html
“”Right.” She brushed off the concern. “We’re not getting hijacked out here. And if someone tries, I am the meanest fighter on this ship by a wide margin. I can take any three of this crew apart.”
“Any five of us, though?” he asked softly.
“That’s another use for you.”
“I don’t fight.”
“No, but you’re a Howard. [...]
“Maduabuchi liked to sit in the smartgel bodpods and let the ship perform a three-sixty massage while he watched the universe. The rest of the crew were like cats in a sack, too busy stalking the passageways and each other to care what might be outside the window. Here in the lounge one could see [...]
“Now Alethia’s professed vocational training astounded her. She was not training to be a pilot. Instead, she was training to be a controller, the person tasked to give directions to the leo-fin pilot. Now how she was going to do so remained a mystery, even for Katherine. Alethia’s senses of perception were uncanny; she claimed [...]
“Old Liu was particularly angry, he recalled the old retainer’s face, reddened from furious shouting and half-blackened with soot from the gunpowder ship which exploded mid-air, right in the middle of the family courtyard, much to everyone’s consternation and horror. Old Liu looked just like Kwan Kong, the red-and-black faced god of justice.”
3 out of [...]
“The old harridan stalked towards her, witch-thin and witch-terrible. She had her belt ready and Katherine was quite well acquainted with the belt. Her ankles bore previous scars.
“So, Miss Riley,” the old witch snarled. “What is balance?” Her bony fingers twitched, as if in wicked anticipation.”
3.5 out of 5
http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/original-fiction-the-basics-of-flight-chapter-2-by-joyce-chng/
A wailing guard, having slain the last of the tigers, jabbed his spear at Ironspell. The warrior dodged its oversized point. He opened his fist to receive the hilt of the spinning Runesblood. As he slew the last two sentinels, leaping to slash their throats, a third giant rushed into the hall brandishing a great [...]
Continue reading about The Weird of Ironspell 4 The Jewel and the Giant-King – John R. Fultz
““Lord Ironspell, we hereby appoint you Warlord of the Triple Alliance. Lead our troops against the death horde. For this service, we will grant you anything in our power to give.”
Ironspell picked up the golden bowl from which he had been drinking.
“Give me more wine,” he said, and they did.”
3 out of 5
http://www.blackgate.com/2010/05/18/original-fiction-the-weird-of-ironspell-by-john-r-fultz-3/#more-7801
Continue reading about The Weird of Ironspell 3 Return of the Golden Skull – John R. Fultz
““Open your gates, Slaves of Azazar!” bellowed Grobos the gnome in the eastern dialect. He dismounted from his camel and pointed a stubby finger up at the sentinels. “Tell your master that Ironspell has come for him!”
The wall guards laughed. “Why don’t you write him a letter, dog?” one of them shouted. The rest howled [...]
Continue reading about The Weird of Ironspell 2 – John R. Fultz
““If I didn’t know better, I’d say you were tame. Is that it? Were you a pet rat? Did you belong to the guy who shot at me?””
3.5 out of 5
http://www.briankeene.com/?p=3953
“He’s naked?”
“Yeah. Why? Is that important?”
Novak shrugged. “It’s better for Gail. Naked people often feel more vulnerable. He might be less likely to attack her if he’s feeling that way.”
3.5 out of 5
http://www.briankeene.com/?p=3911
“”Just from what I could see, the tumour has either co-opted part of your wife’s brain — stolen it, complete with blood supply — or there’s a second brain growing in your wife’s skull.”
3.5 out of 5
http://martyhalpern.blogspot.com/2010/05/taste-of-night-by-pat-cadigan-part-3-of.html
“And that was how it would be. No, that was how it was always, but the five senses worked so hard to compensate for the one missing that people took the illusion of contact for the real thing. The power of suggestion — where would the human race be without it?
Sight. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Touch. [...]
“He disappeared into the flying lion fish. For a moment, nobody dared to speak, all eyes intent on the contraption. Someone loosened the rope and the pilot appeared from an window, quickly pulling the rest of the rope back in. The lion fish was no longer floating but moving with purpose. Everyone gasped and ducked [...]
“Crapsey was glad he’d never seen Dr. Husch before, because he probably would have done something stupid like pledge his life to defend her. It wasn’t just that she was beautiful, though she was that – Helen of Troy beautiful, classical statue beautiful, Emma Frost in a white corset beautiful, the kind of woman who [...]
“Marla cleared her throat. “How sure are you two that this hole you’re about to tear open in space-time actually leads to Beta-B’s world? How do you know it’s not a trap the possible witch left for us, a portal to some nightmarish hell dimension of electrified lava and demons with chainsaws for genitals?””
3.5 out [...]
“Rondeau nodded. “It’s true. Marla can be cranky, but she’s no epic supervillain. She did take over the land of the dead one time, but not for keeps. I mean, she gave it back, once she found the right guy to take over.”
“You’ve been to the actual underworld?” Bradley said.
“B, you’re the one who got [...]
John and the CCCP do some shooting.
3 out of 5
http://media.podiobooks.com/swc3wwl/PB-SecretWorldChronicle3-09.mp3
Continue reading about Respect the Wind 1 – Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin
“They clawed at him with fingers like spikes of iron, slicing his flesh. The fires that took the place of their eyes burned like vitriol. They swarmed upon him, dragging him to the floor, coaxing blood from rents in his skin and muscle. His sword cleaved a dry skull in two, then chopped it from [...]
Continue reading about The Weird of Ironspell 1 Born of Stone – John R. Fultz
“The Mason bombed along Interstate 80 in their Humvee, which guzzled gas like crazy, necessitating more stops at gas stations, though they didn’t have any more massacre-type situations, maybe because they were getting out into the desert where things were more sparsely populated. The Mason didn’t talk at all, not even when they crossed into [...]
Old enough to boss?
3.5 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_179/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_179_Clockwork_Fagin_5.mp3
Dead William problems.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_178/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_178_Clockwork_Fagin_4.mp3
Grinder programming.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_177/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_177_Clockwork_Fagin_3.mp3
Making a Grinder.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_176
I’ll show you how we beat people in Montreal.
3.5 out of 5
http://www.archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_175/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_175_Clockwork_Fagin_1.mp3
“It looked like granite, not like malleable rock foam. It was sculpted into the shape of a lithe little animal, so sinuous that at first she thought it might be a serpent. Then she saw its legs, back legs holding it upright on dainty feet, the front legs held in close, the front paws precisely [...]