New audio podcasts are available from both StarShipSofa (science fiction) and Tales to Terrify (horror).

StarShipSofa #250 includes fiction by Bruce Sterling, and Tales to Terrify #30 has fiction from Lawrence Santoro.

To download StarShipSofa go HERE and for Tales To Terrify go HERE

Part one of the brand new Scarifyers comic book is available to pre-order now exclusively from the Cosmic Hobo shop. Written by Simon Barnard, illustrated by 2000AD artist Simon Gurr, and wrapped in a handsome cover from Garen Ewing, the first issue is released on 21 May 2012, priced at just £2.99.

Issue 1 of The Scarifyers is the first in a two-part adaptation of the audio adventure, The Nazad Conspiracy, but with better pictures, extra spookiness and added jokes. Set in 1936 London, the tale follows Detective Inspector Lionheart’s investigation of a mysterious death at the home of academic and ghost-story author Professor Dunning.

Available to pre-order HERE

StarShipSofa #232 is now available for download.
Contents:

Fact: Covering the Sofa by Skeet with artist Richard Wagner
Fact: Hugo Reviews – Palladin of Souls by Andy Thomaswick
Main Fiction: The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman
Fact: Theatre of the Mind – Magic Island by Paul Finch

The Minister of Chance is an audio podcast Doctor Who spin-off written and produced by Dan Freeman of Radio Static. Freeman first created the Minister (then played by Stephen Fry) in the award-winning Doctor Who drama Death Comes To Time.

“Now in his fourth incarnation, defrocked Time Lord, The Minister Of Chance, finds himself saddled with Kitty – an assistant he apparently cannot get rid of – and perilously entangled in the court intrigues and military politics of a forest planet on the brink of war. Jenny Agutter, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann and Paul Darrow join Julian Wadham (The Iron Lady) and Lauren Crace (EastEnders) in a mould-breaking audio adventure that will take you to a spectacular world where science is heresy and magic is law…”

What’s more, downloads are FREE! For more information, visit the website HERE or download Episode 1: The Broken World from HERE