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Between the holidays, work, illness, and a killer 30th birthday party for Joanna, I’ve been a little slack in putting together the weekend fiction for the last few weeks. To make up for it, I’ve got a bunch of goodies and a new addition to our regulars here in the Weekend Fiction zone.
First up, a holiday gift from J.C. Hutchins called In the Nick 0f Time. It contains previews of not 1, not 2, not even 10 books. No, it previews 12, count them, 12 titles. Now I’ve read several of these and stories by some of the other authors and let me tell you, after reading this preview, I really feel the need to go to the bookstore.
Second, there is Hub Magazine, a free weekly e-zine with stories, reviews, and features such as interviews and in depth looks at different fiction. Best part? They’ll email you the new issues.
In podcasts, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Escape Pod have released a ton of excellent new stuff, but if I had to pick one from each, I’d say The Narcomancer, The Blessed Days, and Union Dues – The Threnody of Johnny Toruko. Speaking of sci-fi, The Clarkesworld Magazine Podcast put out 53+ minutes of awesome entitled The Things, a retelling of The Thing from the Thing’s point of view.
Also in podcasts, our buddies at Variant Frequencies put up the full version of Failed Cities: Hath a Darkness (link will work when there site gets back up).
And if you haven’t read it yet, we have a new story from Christopher A. Helton called One String at a Time.
And now, our new feature: Public Domain Goodies. Each week we’ll pick a public domain story or novel that we think are good reads. Why public domain? Well, that’s a another article entirely.
Anyways, this week’s Public Domain Goodies is Arthur Machen‘s The Great God Pan. Published in the 1890′s it was panned due to it’s depiction of sex and its decadent style, which puts it right up our alley. It’s also a good one to compare to Dracula since they were both published in the same era and are very sexually charged compared to other stories of the time. If you are also a buff of Horror Lit like myself, this was an important work that influenced H.P. Lovecraft who in turn influenced pretty much every horror since 1930.
That’s it for this week, but we could use your help. There is so much good stuff out there that we can use some help wrangling it, so if you have any suggestions, feel free to let us know.
Finally it’s Friday. Don’t know about you guys, but I’ve had a long week and all I want to do is sit inside where it’s warms and snuggle up with a good book/laptop/mp3 player and binge on some fiction.
