SF Signal: Recent Free Reads

Recent Free Reads

Night Shade Books is releasing the entire text of Richard Kadrey's novel Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion available as a DRM-free download, in a wide variety of formats.

Futurismic features Eliot Fintushel fiction (try saying that three times fast): "Uxo, Bomb Dog".

Episode 1x02 of Shadow Unit ("Knock on Coffins") is up. [via Elizabeth Bear]

Free audio fiction from Spider Robinson: "Not Fade Away" (1982) and "Orphans of Eden" (1996). [via SFFaudio]

John Joseph Adams points us to some free fiction from Jeremiah Tolbert:
- Online: "Spooning" (Ideomancer, 2003).
- Online: "Storm Come's A'Callin" (Ideomancer, 2004).
- PDF: "The Girl With the Sun in Her Head" (Polyphony 4).
- Audio: "Instead of a Loving Heart" (All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories.)
- Online: "The Yeti Behind You" (Fantasy Sampler, 2007).
- Online: "Captain Blood's B00ty" (Shimmer Magazine, 2007). [Link needs fixin' methinks!]
- Online: "Babe, I'm Going to Leave You" (2008).

Storyline Online has actors reading children's books - f'rinstance Lou Diamond Phillips reading Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express. [via mental_floss Blog]

The link for "Captain Blood's B00ty" is actually right, but it's a bit of a game, related to the story. There's direct links to the story here:
http://www.tuginternet.com/bloodsbooty.html

Posted by John Joseph Adams on Tuesday March 04, 2008 at 6:53 AM

I love Night Shade Books. They are quickly becoming one of my favorite publishers. The quality of the books they are putting out is phenomenal and they, like another favorite of mine Tor, seem to always get fantastic cover artists.

Posted by Carl V. on Tuesday March 04, 2008 at 9:53 AM

And sometimes they share the cover artist. Take a look at the Glen Cook fantasy books from both publishers!

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Tuesday March 04, 2008 at 11:59 AM