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Congrats to Gerard Readett on completing his novel Roadworks: Traffic Jam Buster! Come to Brussels, a congestion-free city in 2022, but avoid the day of ‘Roadworks’, when Akila Kama, an African terrorist takes the city and many foreign heads of state hostage. His demands are simple, either the greatest humanitarian aid package is sent to [...]

Growing our selection of fiction podiobooks, we present A Dancing Bear by David Free. What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy? On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century, a young man named Fenton Bland joins a society of student Maoists in order to get near the girl he [...]

Jesse from SFFAudio is offering an incentive for those wishing to record an audio version of select science fiction works in the public domain. The contest is simple: record the audio version of one (or more) of the 20 public domain science fiction titles selected by Jesse. The first person to email him with an [...]

Mur Lafferty follows up with her second season of her Heaven serial, taking things on a different and more subterranean path with Heaven – Season Two: Hell Kate and Daniel are reunited at last, but they have to return to their duties in traveling the afterlife. There are stolen souls suffering without cause in Hell, [...]

More public domain classics by the great folks at Librivox. This time, it’s King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by [...]

Matt Wallace writes and Rick Stringer produces in this new collection, The Failed Cities Monologues. In a hardboiled dystopian future, one major American city has been divided in two. Separated by much more than a river, one side is an unfinished technological marvel populated by mega-skyscrapers where the wealthy live, work, and play. The other [...]

Nielson’s Bookscan has released their retail book sales numbers for 2004. (Um… isn’t it almost 2007?) An interesting picture emerged, from which folks will take away what they need to justify their actions. Ah, statistics. I’m betting the stat that gets bandied about the most will be this The average book sold 500 copies. And [...]

Since I can’t seem to get away from the news of this buzzing through the scifi geek-o-sphere of blogs and pocasts, I figure I should take a hint and post something about it here as well. Much, if not all, of this information was ripped off 100% from Slice of Scifi. I get the feeling [...]