Unsung heroes and murderous villains, hidden forever in ancient shadows, now leap to life - blazing onto the pages of revelation. Gideon, a lowly woodcutter, is blessed by an angel to be the savior of all Israel. He does not know why or how and shrinks from this dangerous mission. The commandment to conquer the Midian Empire as one man seems all but impossible. [ 483 more words ]

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Dave has some more secrets and personal details to share in this second EMU episode: Lost. Written and performed by Alex C. Telander. If you want more Ostium, why not become a patron on our Patreon page, where for just $2 a month you'll get access to an exclusive brand new mini episode every two weeks (and this includes all through the offseason); and during the regular season of the show you'll get access to new episodes a full week before everyone else. [ 60 more words ]

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Caitlin R. Kiernan’s Agents of Dreamland has everything you X-Files buffs could want: FBI agents, clandestine government groups, conspiracy theories up the wazoo, a mystery shrouded in an enigma sworn to secrecy, and the possibility of one really terrifying alien species. In a ranch house close to the Salton Sea on the San Andreas Fault, east of San Diego, the brainwashed Children of the Next Level await their carefully scheduled transcendence under the commands of the cult leader, only there’s something much scarier going on here than drinking some strange Kool-Aid. [ 241 more words ]

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Welcome to the Ostium offseason. In the first mini episode you get to meet one David Fothergill Attenborough Windsor, host of the new show Enigmatic Mysteries of the Unknown, talking about his discovery of something very strange. Written and performed by Alex C. Telander. If you want more Ostium, why not become a patron on our Patreon page, where for just $2 a month you'll get access to an exclusive brand new mini episode every two weeks (and this includes all through the offseason); and during the regular season of the show you'll get access to new episodes a full week before everyone else. [ 77 more words ]

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Reading a nice, long Kim Stanley Robinson novel is like going on a great vacation: you have a decent idea where you’re going, you know it’s going to be for a while, you know you’re going to get up to some great adventures and have a great time, and you never want it to end. In his latest book, New York: 2140… [ 431 more words ]

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Dan "Tito" Davis comes from a town in South Dakota that's so small everyone knows their neighbor's cat's name. But once he got out, he made some noise. While at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, he started manufacturing White Crosses, aka speed, and soon had the Banditos Motorcycle Club distributing ten million pills a week. After serving a nickel, he got into the weed game, but just when he got going, he was set up by a childhood friend. [ 479 more words ]

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The Hunger Saint is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well- crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to support his family after his father's untimely death. Faced with life-threatening working conditions, Ntoni must choose between escaping the mines and abandoning his family. [ 427 more words ]

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The Salad Oil King is a uniquely American tale of Greed-Gone-Mad. Inspired by real events that took place in the 1940-60's. An unpretentious, diminutive Manhattan-born high school drop-out named Alfonso Gravenese morphs into one of the great scam artists in American financial history. Watch "Fonso" graduate from a modest childhood scam into an executive who initially steals hundreds of millions of dollars from Federal domestic and international aid programs. [ 406 more words ]

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New York attorney Brian Bradford was severely injured and hospitalized after the violent confrontation at the end of the first novel, The Complaint. Having not learned his lesson from the first litigation against ZeiiMed, he decides upon his return to work to commence a second lawsuit against the billion dollar health insurance company. He agreed to file the suit after meeting the elderly Martha Dudley and learning that she was dying from a defective hip replacement device manufactured by a subsidiary of ZeiiMed. [ 469 more words ]

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The Hunter: Awakening, is the first of a series of novels that will explore the nature of good and evil and the question of redemption: Is it available to those who have perpetrated great evil? Not long after the theft of a leather-bound book from a hidden hillside tomb in LA, a young hiker inadvertently awakens something fearsome that has been laid to rest some two hundred years ago. [ 391 more words ]

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In the Ostium Season One finale, “A Crack in the Edge of the World, Part One,” Jake and Monica . . . well, you’re just going to have to listen to the episode to find out. Written and produced by Alex C. Telander. Performed by Chris Fletcher and Georgia McKenzie. Warning, this episode contains explicit language. Please help and support Team Ostium by rating and reviewing on iTunes, as well as checking out our… [ 72 more words ]

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“Two events made the first of September a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant.” The opening lines to bestselling author Robert Charles Wilson’s latest book, Last Year, do what many of his past books have done: they make you stop and think and consider this what if: why are expensive modern day sunglasses being used in the same context as a president from the late nineteenth century? [ 305 more words ]

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Jake and Monica are ready to venture through Door #5 and find out what’s on the other side. Will Jake know where they are? Will he have some intrinsic link to this location in time? And will they be able to find out something before the blackness comes . . ? Written and produced by Alex C. Telander. Performed by Chris Fletcher and Georgia McKenzie. [ 72 more words ]

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What if you could take a medication that could cause your body to go into reactive shutdown, altering your DNA, and when you recovered enough to regain consciousness and look in the mirror, you see a completely different face attached to a completely different body? And what if some truly despicable people were able to manufacture this medication? Welcome to Daniel Suarez’s chilling new novel, … [ 364 more words ]

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In the beginning of Episode 8 – Back to the Future, Monica goes on a solo mission to try out something with a door in Ostium, and things don’t go according to plan. Later on, after a heart-to-heart discussion, Jake and Monica realize they need to visit an old haunt and sort some things out. Written and produced by Alex C. [ 80 more words ]

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In the second installment of the Star Quest Trilogy, Bova follows the same trajectory he left off in Death Wave. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, wiping out entire planets whether there’s intelligent life on them or not. A vastly superior alien race contacted Earth to let them know they know how to help these alien worlds who have no clue of what is coming at them. [ 184 more words ]

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