Novelist (the Jack Palms series ) and podcaster (Crimewav.com) Seth Harwood drops by Well Told Tales to deliver the first installment of his serialized podcast novel “Young Junius.”

Go to SethHarwood.com to get the full novel — for free.

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It came out to mixed reviews and tepid box office numbers, but Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream” (2007) deserved better.

Much better.

Well-written and directed — and beautifully acted -– the neo noir thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as star-crossed, working class brothers in London.

McGregor plays the smart brother, who toils in his father’s money-losing restaurant while dreaming of a bigger life and chasing a woman out of his league. Farrell’s brother is a sensitive grease monkey/compulsive gambler who finds himself dangerously deep in debt.

When a rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson) asks for their help, it promises a way out for both brothers -– but at a terrible price.

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NBC’s online sci-fi series ‘Gemini Division’ launched today on SciFi.com, NBC.com and a few other outlets.

My first-blush reaction after watching two episodes — meh.

The series, which is toplined by ‘Sin City’ siren Rosario Dawson, is set “five minutes” in the future (although it will take Microsoft a bit longer than that to deliver the nifty iPhone rip-off through which Dawson monologues her “transmissions” — a product placement, which gets to be a little intrusive by the second episode.)

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Written by Paul D’Ambrosio, read by J.B. Goodspeed.

A disgraced detective gets a chance at redemption in this novel of crime and corruption at the Jersey Shore by veteran investigative journalist Paul D’Ambrosio.

The third and final installment of our excerpt of “Cold Rolled Dead” contains chapter six. If you missed them, go back and listen to part 1 and part 2. 

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Written by Derek Rutherford, read by Eve Berkson.

In the future, love hurts … but an amorous young couple will take enormous risks to become intimate.

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If you’re like me, you read all day long on your computer — but don’t seem to have enough time to read all the books you want to get to.

Enter DailyLit.com, a new (to us) Web site that delivers bite-sized portions of books via e-mail or RSS on a regular schedule so you can get your reading done in five-minute chunks.

There are a slew of free books — and some paid books — to choose from.  The total library just hit the 1,000 mark.  So far they have 46 books categorized as sci-fi, which isn’t shabby.  There are only three crime and four horror titles now, but I have a hunch those numbers will grow.

Pretty cool.

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Written by Paul D’Ambrosio, read by J.B. Goodspeed.

A disgraced detective gets a chance at redemption in this novel of crime and corruption at the Jersey Shore by veteran investigative journalist Paul D’Ambrosio.

The second excerpt contains chapters four and five. If you missed it, go back and listen to part 1. And catch the third and final installment on Aug. 14.

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The next time you’re bored at work, log on for real-time snapshots of Loch Ness (or a live feed, depending on your browser). Or, you can visit the website of Thekentuckyincident.com and look through the lens of a camera focused on prime Bigfoot country.

You may not see anything, but isn’t it great to think you could?

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Written by Fred Ollinger, read by Eleiece Krawiec.

A concerned mother uses an experimental sentience formula on her daughter’s beloved — and endangered — pet goat.

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I’ve been waiting for the Tor.com sci-fi site to launch for awhile now — publisher Macmillan/Tor Books did a nice job of drumming up interest by releasing a series of e-books in advance of their launch.  And the site looks pretty nifty so far (it just launched, so I haven’t had much time to delve too deeply into it.)

But I just found out about Random House’s answer, Suvudu, thanks to a post on Mediabistro’s Gallycat blog.

Tor.com seems to have the early head-start, with stronger community features to go along with the louder buzz.  But I’ll withhold judgment for awhile, until I get a chance to tool through both sites.  One thing’s for sure — no matter which blog “wins,” sci-fi fans are coming out ahead.

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