Variant Frequencies is a podcast that stretches the entire bandwidth of genre fiction, modulated by a constant element of the fantastic. Every month we give you a new story.
Our goal at Variant Frequencies is to entertain and expose you to our work, and we work hard on every story you will hear. So tune in, turn the volume up, and let some of our weird carrier waves distort your reality....
for just a little while.
Before he got to be big in the San Francisco drug game (JACK WAKES UP), Junius Ponds had to cut his teeth on the small-time capers and crimes of a fourteen-year-old wanna be gangster on the late 80s streets of greater Boston. With his brother Temple just killed, a fresh nine in his hand, and a mystery to solve, Young Junius has one way to go: straight ahead.
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Written and narrated by Seth Harwood
Promo
Jack Wakes Up
http://sethharwood.com
Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/
Basil Sands’ 65 Below
http://www.basilsands.com
Music - The Podsafe Music Network
http://podsafemusicnetwork.com/
Young Junius
Copyright 2008 Seth Harwood
http://sethharwood.com/
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
Our friends J.C. Hutchins and Seth Harwood put together this audio file specifically for the Variant Frequencies listeners. They are trying to help Scott Sigler make it onto the New York Times Best Seller List. The thought behind this push is that if we can get Scott Sigler’s Infected onto the NY Times list, then that is going to help all fiction podcasters.
Savage circumstances can make for strange allies. And sometimes, those allies shouldn’t exist.
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Written by Jonathan C. Gillespie
Narrated by Rick Stringer, P.G. Holyfield, and Anne Stringer
Promo
Murder at Avedon Hill
http://pgholyfield.com/maah/
Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/
Tex’s Last Run
Copyright 2008 Jonathan C. Gillespie
http://jonathancg.net/
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
NOTE: There was an error found in the audio file. A new one has been uploaded. If you were one of the first 690 people to download the file, you may want to listen again. Thanks! Rick
Birth rules the life of a midwife, but she has also seen plenty of death. When she realizes she is immortal, birth and death begin to look the same. She knows that any new baby she helps bring into the world will die, in time. But she learns to look beyond the spectre of death when she sees the look of bliss on a new mother’s face and gains the wisdom to live in the moment.
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Written and narrated by Anne Stringer
Cello music by Christine Williams
Promo
Scott Sigler’s Infected
http://scottsigler.com/
http://infectednovel.com/
Seth Harwood’s Jack Wakes Up
http://sethharwood.com/jackwakesup.htm
Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix
http://www.thenextfix.net/
Technorama
http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/
Birth and Death
Copyright 2008 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
One of our friends from podcasting and from Podiobooks has his book coming out on Amazon. Seth Harwood is one more author who is showing that giving your work away for free can lead to success. Of course, that work still has to be good. We think Seth’s book is good.
However, you don’t have to take our word for it. If you haven’t already listened to Jack Wakes Up on Podiobooks.com, then here is your chance to read it for free. We are including in here on our site for you to download it and read the story.
Then, the print version will be available on Amazon for real on Sunday, March 16th, Palm(s) Sunday. Jack is hoping that you will purchase it at 10AM PST, 1PM EST and 6PM GST. Let’s help Seth make a big showing on Amazon!
Only one drug can bring the visceral and the sublime together in a single trip, where the best and the worst of human drives boil down into a tech-noir concoction that’s part street-level heaven and part the fiery beauty of hell. Consider these pages a controlled substance.
Kick back to the strains of Earth’s last Top 40 as the final human DJ sends a shout out over “The Last Frequency.” Step into the hard-boiled beauty of “The Losting Corridor,” where that which once escaped a man is met again. Sink into the visceral embrace of fear when a claustrophobic metal shop teacher finds himself trapped in an MRI machine surrounded by ancient evil in “Killing Jars,” or take your ancient evil with a comedic chaser as a hitwoman is hired to rid her old Catholic high school of a janitor who is up to some “Old Tricks.”
Take a hit off twelve short stories and one novella from two-time Parsec Award-winning author Matt Wallace. Get ready for The Next Fix.
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Apex Book Company
http://www.apexbookcompany.com
(for pre-orders. It will be on Amazon once it’s out)
TheNextFix.net
http://www.thenextfix.net
The Next Fix
Copyright 2008 Matt Wallace
http://matt-wallace.net/
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
The Human race has been asking itself “How will it all end?” practically since it all began. But even as our illustrious leaders order the buttons to be pressed for the Big One, the computers entrusted to carry out the apocalypse seem determined to keep us wondering.
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Written by James P. Hogan
Narrated by TD-0013
Promo
A Different Point of View
http://www.adpov.net/
Jack Palms Crime
http://www.sethharwood.com
Nocturnal
http://scottsigler.net
UltraCreatives Interviews
http://jchutchins.net
Murphy’s War
Copyright 2008 James P. Hogan
http://www.jamesphogan.com/
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
You can catch Rick Stringer reading on Well Told Tales. The story is Fat Larry’s Night with the Alligator’s by Ken Goldman. The story has mobsters and alligators. What more can you ask?
Well Told Tales has original sci-fi, horror and hardboiled genres twice a month. Check them out, they do a great job.
All of her clients know that anything above her neck costs fifty dollars more. But when a flesh-smashing session with one of her regulars takes an unexpected turn, there’s a lot more put on the line than a broken nose or a crumpled President Grant.
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Written by Christa Faust
Narrated by Leann Mabry
Promo
Tag In the Seam
http://tagintheseam.com/
Hit Me
Copyright 2008 Christa Faust
http://www.christafaust.com
Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2008 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com
The anthology from Cutting Block Press, Tattered Souls, is now on Amazon. Tattered Souls includes The End of Flesh by Matt Wallace. The End of Flesh first appeared on Variant Frequencies as Children of the Androphagi.
The are a couple of reviews on Amazon. Check out this clip from one:
The absolute winner, however, is The End of Flesh, by Matt Wallace, a dark, dystopic science fiction story that just might rock your world. This revelatory novella could and should be expanded into a full novel. Drool and The End of All Flesh are worth the price alone, but all the stories should provide an enjoyable read. –Monstor Librarian
Tattered Souls is selling for $16.95. It is well worth the price.
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