BMU # 361 Now Online Kahn & Khaw

After a short intro, I spend about ten minutes in my opening with a discussion. This week, why I feel the force you call gravity does not exist in the classical sense. At least according to the first law of motion...and some of the second. YOu can write comments to me btw at beammeuppodcast@gmail.com or go to the blog at wrfrbeamEup.blogspot.com and make your thoughts known on the weekly show description.

 From there....

 Episode 19 of Jason Kahn's series In Plain Sight. This week, psychic detective Jack Garrett has become interested in a mysterious back room, but to gain entrance he must face a man why himself also fairly crackles with psychic energy. Jack it would seem has his "work" cut out for him.

 The Original Star Trek (tost) is next in line as I find interesting Star Trek trivia from my favorite Star Trek trivia book. Some interesting facts to be had, to be sure.

 Next Earth_Sky reports on the Lyrid April 16-26 2013

 Kallamus is back with his weekly rundown, starts with a returning DBZ. NASA has submitted its' 2013 budget, one really exciting news about an asteroid capture, tow and then explore! First ever discovery of a black hole chowing down on a rogue planet! Io has some wildly different volcanic activity! Kallamus finds a site that shows how the planets would appear if they were in the same place as our moon. It is a stunning effect! Kall found some really good info on the "Man of Steel" movie. And finally Kall has a run at conspiracy when they take aim at a clothing tester and that somehow has been twisted into terminators of all things!

 Finally I read Having Survived an Apocalypse by Mini Khaw a story I read for the online flash fiction site Antipodean.

 All in all, I think this week's program was great fun. I hope you think so too!

Antipodean #170 Now online!

David Scholes writes to tell me that Antipodean, the online flash fiction site is once again offering a new issue. Number 170, and what makes this episode unique is that David's offering in the newest issue is called "Equalisation".  Worth Checking out for sure.

Here is the complete story list for Antipodean issue 170

• The Final Crusade by Mick Dawson
• We'll Meet Again by John Craig
• Retribution by Kevin J. Phyland
• But I Only.. By Ashleigh Meikle
• Equalisation by David Scholes
• Addiction by Natalie J.E. Potts
• Leprechaun in the Backyard by Rick Keuning

Antipodean Issue 169 Now Online

Here is a list of this month's flash fiction stories in Antipodean. As you can see, some of the authors are even know to us here on BMU. Looks to be a good month issue 169 for July 2012!

And The Stars Fall Into Charon-3, With You And Me By Ray O'Brien

The Ex Book By Jorge Werbin

Alice's Land By Rachel Towns

The Origin Of Species By Kate Krake

The Car Full Of Clowns By Tony Owens

The Thirteenth Dome By Maggie Mundy

How Not To Treat The Tooth Fairy By Wes Parish

In The Service Of The Public By Mark Webb

Safety Features By Jake Wickenhofer

David Steffen Announces Winner of Free Book Contest!

Several weeks ago, David Steffen announced that he was giving away a free copy of Uncle John’s Flush Fiction anthology with his newest stories in it (along with others).  David would like to congratulate BMU fan - Michael Hanrahan who mentioned BMU as one of the Blogs he frequents.

Congrats Mike!

Now you need to contact either Dave or me, so we can get this very entertaining book into your hands asap.

Thanks to all who entered, All of the blogs and podcasts mentions really appreciate the interest, count on it!

Paul Cole

Beam Me Up podcast on WRFR lp/fm Rockland Maine usa

beammeuppodcast@gmail.com

Antipodean 166 Now Online!

Here is a list of the newest and easily some of the best flash fiction.
I am not kidding when I say that this month's stories!


The House Of Benevolence By Ken McGrath
The Prisoner By Jean M. Gordon
Not The Silent Type By Shane Griffin
Eulogium By Greg Mellor
Make Mine A Macchiato By Mark Webb
Apocalyptia By C.K. Palmes
The Red Button By Lynda Young
Heaven's Gate By Jason Butterfield
Phobic By Kevin J. Phyland
Mozart's Copyright Infringement DeviceBy Wes Parish

Antipodean Issue 165 Now Online

Antipodean the online Australian flash fiction site's monthly issue numbered 165 is now  online!   Here are the stories that editor Ion has chosen for your enjoyment!

March 2012

Life & Death By Julie Wornan

Mega Star By Greg Mellor

Frozen Moments By Steve Duffy

Winter By Kevin J. Phyland

A Moving Memory By Wes Parish

The Lottery By Shaun A. Saunders

All Possible Worlds By Pavelle Wesser

What Have Future Generations Ever Done For Me By Bart Meehan

Strange Brew By Eleni Konstantine

The Gloriously Cunning Plan By Mark Webb

Click the article title to go straight to the story page. 

 

Antipodean Issue 164 Now Online

Issue 164 of the Australian flash fiction online site Antipodean is now up.  Here is a list of the stories.  It is a great issue, editor Ion has done a great job of amassing some really good fiction this month!   

Deviation By Andy Astruc & RJ Astruc

Orbital Fort Orbital Fire By Wes Parish

Everything Old Is New Again By Nicole Rendall

Revenge Inc. By Kevin J. Phyland

Love In A Time Of Entropy By Geordie McLeod

Long Exalt The Average Person By Shaun A Saunders

Thump By M L Sawyer

Teach Your Children Well By Edwina Harvey

The Gift By Mick Dawson

Father Dominic Is Overworked By Bart Meehan

AntipodeanSF 162 Now Online!

Here is a list of the newest flash fiction stories in Antipodean on line in issue 162.

The Macroscope By Lou Caravelli

Love And Perpetual Motion By Bart Meehan

Two Wise Men By Martin Hill

Textual Relations By David Siegel Bernstein

Fugitive By Shaun A. Saunders

Beep By Rachel Towns

Night Time By Michael Schaper

Solidarity By Des McNicholas

The Sound By Brent Lillie

Raven By Suzanne J. Willis

I have read through the stories and it is a great and fast read! Kudos to Ion on a great issue!

AntipodeanSF 161 Now Online!

Issue 161 of the Australian Flash SF online magazine is now ready for downloading.

Here is a list of the stories:

Worst Ending Ever By Kevin J. Phyland
Distant Signals By Scott James Smith
A Taste Of Real Earth By David Brookes
Carrion By Holly Day
Brother By Jason Butterfield
The Patriot By Shaun A. Saunders
The Strike Team By Rachael Ryan
Alice & The Rabbit Hole By David Shanahan
The Black Flower By Damien Conn
Time Trip By Barbara J. Holten

Link to AntipodeanSF

Antipodean October 2011 issue 160

The newest episode of Antipodean SF the speculative flash fiction from down under.

Here are the stories for the October 2011 issue 160

A Public Touch Up By Wes Parish

Best Friends By Jackson Creed

Jacob's Ladder By Eugene Gramelis

Gaia's Virus By David Kernot

Curse Of The Were-Bat By Tony Owens

Progress by Shaun A. Saunders

The Year we Killed the People Who Pretend to be Statues By Chris Large

The Croupier Retires By P.S. Cottier

Racing Flame By Tim White

Warnings By Kevin J. Phyland

Antipodean SF September 2011 issue, #159

Antipodean's September 2011 issue, #159 is now online. Antipodean's focus is mostly Australian flash fiction.

The current issue includes:

Lewis Boathaven by Wes Parish
Equality 2.0 by M. Jordan
Silence is Golden by Stuart Bennington
Housebreaking by Stephen L. Thompson
Mistress by Theron Fairchild
Doctor Atomic by Shaun A. Saunders
The System by Jamie Richter
Conditioning Therapy by Kevin J. Phyland
The Kiss by Kate Roediger
Adoption by Harris Tobias

Antipodean SF August 2011 issue, #158

From SF Scope online magazine is a listing of Antipodean SF online flash fiction magazine

Antipodean SF has posted its August 2011 issue, #158. The magazine's focus is Australian science/speculative fiction, and they publish mostly short-short stories.

This issue, the fiction includes:

"Mother Heart" by Ray O'Brien (horror)
"Re-Life" by Mark Tremble (science fiction)
"Grim Love Bus" by Matt Stephens (science fiction)
"Time Enough" by Steve Carter (science fiction)
"Fly Eyes" by Pen Clements (horror)
"Murmurs" by Shaun A. Saunders (fantasy)
"The Cinema Attendant" by J.L. Cooper (horror)
"A Light-Bulb Moment" by Shelley Ontis (science fiction)
"Catharsis" by Kevin J. Phyland (horror)
"A Spot of Tea" by M.L. Sawyer (fantasy)

AntipodeanSF 156 Now Online!

Antipodean's editor Ion notes in his blog that issue 156 is now online with as he puts it "ten fantastic pieces of flash fiction from authors around the world"

Here is the TOC for this month

Sina By Wes Parish
The Anti-Realist Movement By Leon Harwick
Breathe Easy By Ken McGrath
How The Natural Revolution Began By Erol Engin
The Bad Thing By RJ Astruc
The Interview By Shaun A. Saunders
Dragon's Quest By Eleni Konstantine
Out Of Time By Jason Butterfield
Patterns Of Floral By Pavelle Wesser
Birthday Boy By Greg Mellor

The stories page url is HERE

David Steffen on Pseudopod

Author David Steffen writes us with some good news.

• I've returned to Pseudopod horror fiction podcast, my second story to run there. It's a reprint of my flash story "What Makes You Tick" which has probably been my best-received story so far. It's included in Pseudopod 228, a Flash on the Borderlands episode that has 2 flash stories by other authors also included in it, so you get several stories for the single download. http://pseudopod.org/?p=325 Enjoy! ,David Steffen

Long time listeners may remember the story. It ran on Beam Me Up episode 206 April 24th 2010. It is a great showcase story for David. It is scary and weird all at the same time.

Kudo Dave! Great job!

AntipodeanSF 155 Now Online!

Editor Ion posts that the newest issue of AntipodeanSF, the Australian online flash fiction magazine, is online and ready for your enjoyment.

The Genetic Time Traveler By David Gray
Old Tidings By JC Mangold
Night Falls At The Dream Markets By Elizabeth Carroll
How Technology Threatened My Manhood By Tod McCoy
Somewhere By Shaun A Saunders
Over Too Soon By Nicholas J Carter
Moving House By Antoinette Rydyr
Nanobrains By Kevin J. Phyland
7 Bullets By Jules Carey
This Alien Landscape By Chris Large

AntipodeanSF http://www.antisf.com.au/the-stories

Antipodean issue 152 now online!

Editor Ion of the flash fiction online magazine Antipodean issue 152 is now online at Antisf.com

Here is a table of contents for this month's magazine.

Welcome Home, Johnny Ace By Onil Lad

Drinking Stories By Marie Hodgkinson

Episode 4.5 By Michael Frissore

Ninja Nemesis By Crisetta Macleod

The Storms By Steve Duffy

An Accident Going Somewhere To Happen By Shaun A. Saunders

Damned Humanists By Wes Parish

Sweet Dreams By Nicole Rendall

Synaesthesia By Kevin J. Phyland

Blame Games By Gitte Christensen


I have read this month's stories and this is certainly a keeper. I hope you enjoy it!

Antipodean # 151 now online!

Once again it is the first of the month and editor Nuke of the online flash fiction magazine Antipodean writes to let us know that issue 151 is online for your reading enjoyment.

10 fast and entertaining submission!

A Surprise Booze-Up By Peter Cooper

Internet Writer By David Scholes

Found In A Pub By David Shanahan

The Little French Girl By Jacinta Butterworth

Twenty-One Sixty-Nine By Kieran Salsone

Rejection By Shaun A. Saunders

Sins Of The Mother By Kate Roediger

Captain Invincible By Stewart Baker

A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing By Jane L. Phillips

ZYKLON B By Kevin J. Phyland

Oh and Nuke also want to remind the readers:

Don't forget that AntiSF also has a Facebook page for you to like, and also where you may like to discuss the stories, the future of AntiSF, or pretty much anything up-side down SF.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/AntipodeanSF/10150136450645422

What Makes You Tick to play on Pseudopod

Writer David Steffen send in a note with some really good news. He writes:

• I've just received the acceptance letter for a new sale, a reprint of my horror flash story "What Makes You Tick" to Pseudopod.
• When the story comes out, it will be a free audio download, in mp3 format, from their site. I'll send out a link when it's available.

Thanks for the note David and we loo forward to the reading.

If the story sounds a bit familiar, it first played on episode 206 in April of this year (2010) along with AK Sykora's Coming of the Abaries. It's a devious piece of flash that manages to throw a couple of curves at the end. Steffen manages to bring a truly alien lifeform to fruition and make it both knowable and unknowable at the same time. It's worth waiting to see Pseudopod's treatment.

Thanks for the note David

AntipodeanSF Issue 150 is now online

Just got a note saying that the newest issue of AntipodeanSF, the Australian online flash fiction magazine, is online with issue 150. Great selection of fiction this month.

Here's what's available this month.

• Waiting By Raymond Gates
• Us Part By Benjamin Hayes
• The Solar Accumulator Satellite By Kerry Tynan Fraser
• Small Robots By Benjamin Harkin
• Wish You Were Here By David Shanahan
• A Letter For My Son By Shaun A. Saunders
• Skin Deep By Kate Murphy
• What Price...? By Gregor MacNamara
• The Perfect Gift By Lynda R. Young
• Muses By Kevin J. Phyland

AntipodeanSF Issue 149 is now online

AntipodeanSF editor that issue 149 is indeed online, he was just a bit behind getting the mail out to let us know. Well considering the great lineup this month ION has nothing to apologize about! Here is a run down of this month's issue.

• Women By Guy Hasson
• What Is Your Destiny? By Scott James Smith
• The Last Australian Hero By Natalie Sutherland
• The Bucket By Eleni Konstantine
• Lost By Michael Schaper
• Idiot Servant By Shaun A. Saunders
• Invasion By Giulio Zambon
• Little Frustrations of Daily Life By Julie Wornan
• Giant Mushroom Envelops Small WA Town By Sean Monaghan
• Unanswered Questions By Kevin J. Phyland

Another great lineup of flash fiction, for AntipodeaSF

Issue 149 here