Round #3 – Warriors are expendable. Quyth legend Korak the Cutter has been called out by “The Heretic” Chaiyal North, the 6′ 9″, 400 pound newly-crowned champion of the Galactic Fighting Association. Will he accept the challenge?
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Written by Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
Narrated by Scott Sigler

TITLE FIGHT: Round #3
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
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http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
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J.C. Hutchins’ ground breaking novel is out today. This is more than just a novel, it is an experience.

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She’s on a mission… To kill the man who loves her… Why?

Because he’s an idiot.

Nina Kimberly the Merciless is a comic fantasy novel about the teenage daughter of a fearsome barbarian conqueror, originally produced in 2006 as a free podcast audiobook. The podcast attracted an audience of more than 10,000 listeners, and as a result, has been released by Dragon Moon Press!

A PDF of the novel awaits your perusal below. Take a peek. Enjoy the story risk-free. If you dig it, buy, buy, buy, BUY a copy of Christiana Ellis’ Nina Kimberly the Merciless RIGHT NOW and help her novel scream up the Amazon charts! Support this brilliant author, and make a positive impact!

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It’s just a friendly, low stakes game of five card draw. Sure, it’s a weird place for poker, but don’t let that bother you. We don’t bet much because we don’t have much. We’re a little picky about who we let sit in, but it looks like you’ll meet the qualifications, and we need some new blood in the game. You in?
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Written by Anne Stringer
Narrated by Ian Jones

Promos
The Parsec Awards
http://www.parsecawards.com

Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
http://www.jchutchins.net/

How To Grow Your Geek
http://www.howtogrowyourgeek.net

The Geekcast
http://www.geekcastonline.com

Penny Ante
Copyright 2009 Anne Stringer
http://anne-stringer.livejournal.com/

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
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Round #2 – Meet “The Heretic” Chaiyal North, the 6′ 9″, 400 pound newly-crowned champion of the Galactic Fighting Association. Chai is the first Human competitor to capture the interspecies title in a thousand years, but as far as he’s concerned crowns don’t make kings. Chai may be sitting at the top of the GFA heap, but to truly call himself the best there’s one more fighter he must face on the field of battle – Quyth legend Korak the Cutter.
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Written by Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
Narrated by Matt Wallace

TITLE FIGHT: Round #2
Copyright 2009 Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace
http://www.scottsigler.com
http://www.matt-wallace.com

Variant Frequencies
Copyright 2009 Rick Stringer and Matt Wallace
http://www.variantfrequencies.com

 

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I narrated “Aerophelia” by Tobias Buckell. It was a fun story to do, and StarShipSofa is doing a fantastic job with their stories. Check it out at: http://www.starshipsofa.com.

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In the three years since Jack Palms went clean: no drugs, no drinking, no life, he’s added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he hits the streets of San Francisco to help a group of Czech drug buyers make one big score, a single drug deal that he hopes will set him up for life.

But when people start turning up dead, and an old nemesis on the policeforce calls, Jack finds himself with just 24 hours to track down San Francisco’s biggest drug supplier or face charges that will put him behind bars.

Only an Oscar-caliber performance will get him through this alive.

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Written and narrated by Seth Harwood

Jack Wakes Up
Copyright 2009 Seth Harwood
http://www.sethharwood.com

Variant Frequencies
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The Parsec Awards are now open for submissions for 2009. As you all know, Variant Frequencies has done well at the Parsec Awards. We don’t know if we can win an unprecedented fourth year in a row, but that sure would be nice.

Here is a list of our episodes that qualify for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form).

Saint Darwin’s Spirituals
Grounders
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Queue
All The Time
Under The Bridge Downtown
Best In Class
Creature of God
Gill Bando
Prisoners
Under The Bed

For Best Speculative Fiction Story (novella)
The End of Flesh

Finally, you certainly could nominate us for Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast.

We hope that you have enjoyed Variant Frequencies enough to nominate us again for the Parsec Awards. It has been an honor to be part of it for the past three years. So, if you think we deserve it, please go to http://parsecawards.com/submission and tell them what you think about us.

Thank you from everyone at Variant Frequencies.

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UPDATE: Variant Frequencies has been nominated by a few people now. Thank you to those that have nominated us. If you want to nominate a specific story, then go to this page: http://www.parsecawards.com/node/618. Then add a comment that tells them the exact story that you want to nominate.

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If you want to listen to a different type of interview, go to “How To Grow Your Geek” http://www.howtogrowyourgeek.net/. Susie interviewed me about being a geeky parent. It was a fun interview, and we even talked about the podcast some.

I had a great time. Thank you Susie!

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