New Erotic Graphic Novel, Yours For Free!

All of you reading this who’ve ever wanted to put out a publication that reflects their own erotic vision, kindly raise your hands. (In my imagination, I now see a mighty forest of raised hands.) In middle life I have observed that I am not getting younger, and so I decided to take the publication plunge.

The result is The Apsinthion Protocol, which I wrote and Lon Ryden drew. Life might seem normal at Gnosis College, where the undergraduates pass halcyon days in study, frolic, and humiliating fraternity rituals. But behind its ivy-covered walls lurk faculty mad scientists who look out at their reckless, oversexed students and think, “what outstanding fodder for my work they would make!” Weird experiments that would never pass muster with the human subjects research committee are undertaken, and soon comely coeds are melting in ecstasy. [Editor’s note: That “melting in ecstasy” bit is emphatically not metaphorial. — Bacchus.] But when a senator’s daughter goes missing, things begin to spin out of control.

If you think this pulpy, porny concoction might just be your test tube of tea, I have good news. It’s all available for the great price of free. You can get a reasonably compact (~47MB) PDF file of the entire 205-page comic via direct download by clicking on the graphic above (or here) and you can also get high-resolution PDFs, CBZ comic book archive versions, and E-book reader (*) versions of the comic by visiting the master download page. And it is also archived online here. (And not only is this comic free, it’s also published under a Creative Commons license, so not only are you free to download, you’re free to share to your heart’s content.)

And so what am I going to do now that I’ve achieved this curious life’s ambition? Well, surely I’m not going to stop at just a single volume. For The Apsinthion Protocol is projected as the first of a series called Tales of Gnosis College. So I think I’ll get busy serializing the second volume of the series, Study Abroad, starting…today!

(A note on E-book readers. Comics-to-ebook conversion is still a bit of experimental technology for me. I’ve made several versions for the standard Kindle and they seem to look decent, but please understand that your results might vary by device. If you have a different device, it might be possible for me to customize a version for that device. If you would like me to try, feel free to contact me and I’ll see what I can do for you as soon as I reasonably can. Happy reading!)

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More Engines of Progress

A little while back in a post on media technology I mused a bit about audio erotica. Well, this past Friday I managed to get a bit more concrete experience with the format.

Picture this, if you will. In the cold, pre-dawn darkness a battered, schmutzy commuter train grinds its way across one of North America’s grittier industrial landscapes. The train is full of morose-looking men and women on their way to a day’s toil in Metropolis. Some doze fitfully, some clutch styrofoam cups of coffee, some scowl at that morning’s Wall Street Journal. You can tell just by looking at them that every last one of them would really rather be somewhere else.

Except for one man, who blogs in his spare time under the name of Faustus. Faustus is grinning from ear to ear. Why? Because on Faustus’s hip there rests a media-playing BlackBerry, wired to Faustus by a small set of headphones. And if you could hear inside the buds resting snugly in Faustus’s ears, you could hear something like this:

I activated the Amatory Capacitors, and a crackling noise filled the air. It joined in pleasing counterpoint to the Vibratorium’s hum and Mrs. Hargreaves’ groans and gasps as my Ontological Engine woke to life, powered by the trickle of Vital Energies she was emitting.

Yes, indeed. Circlet Press, since 1992 the world’s leading (arguably, world’s only) exclusive purveyor of science fiction and fantasy erotica, has entered the podcast era by putting out a four-part MP3 version of Vinnie Tesla’s story “The Ontological Engine, or, The Modern Leda.” (You can have a lot of fun just mining that title for sly references. The story appeared earlier in the Circlet anthology Up for Grabs: Exploring the Worlds of Gender, edited by Lauren P. Burka.) Mad science, flagellation, Victorians Gone Wild, sex machines, erotically-inquisitive monsters, and the power of female orgasm harnessed to questionable purposes. Seriously, what’s not to love here?

To be sure, it does do a lot with the whole Mad Science thing, which discerning ErosBlog readers have perhaps noticed is somewhat up my alley.

And perhaps most attractive of all, the first part of four is available for free (mp3 download here with the remaining four parts available for a very modest outlay. If audio erotica or steampunk erotica or Mad Scientists are your thing (or if you just hate your commute and need to liven it up a bit, maybe?), you owe it to yourself to have a look.