Free Fiction, Fresh & Huge!

There is a huge batch of new free fiction linked to at Free Speculative Fiction. Check ‘em out:

• Isaac Asimov: “Gold” (Analog, September 1991)
• Tony Ballantyne: “A New Beginning” (Interzone #163, January 2001)
• Gregory Benford: “Pebble Among the Stars” (Faster Than Light Anthology, 1976)
• Leigh Brackett:
  • “The Stellar Legion” (Planet Stories, Winter 1940)
  • “Enchantress of Venus” (Planet Stories, Fall 1949)
  • “Interplanetary Reporter” (Startling Stories, May 1941)
  • “Martian Quest” (Analog (Astounding), February 1940)
  • “No Man’s Land in Space” (Amazing, July 1941)
  • “The Demons of Darkside” (Startling Stories, January 1941)
  • “The Treasure of Ptakuth” (Analog (Astounding), April 1940)
• Poppy Z. Brite: “The Seed of Lost Souls” (Subterranean, Fall 2008)
• Michael A. Burstein: “Collapse” (Polutexni #2, September 2008)
• Orson Scott Card: “Salvage” (Asimov’s, February 1986)
• George Alec Effinger:
  • “Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer <...>” (Future Power Anthology, 1976)
  • “New New York New Orleans” (Frontiers Anthology #2, 1973)
  • “Strange Ragged Saintliness” (Dirty Tricks Collection, 1978)
• Harlan Ellison:
  • “Do-It-Yourself” (Rogue, February 1961)
  • “Flop Sweat” (Heavy Metal, March 1979)
  • “How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?” (Chrysalis #1, 1977)
  • “Jeffty is Five” (F & SF, July 1977)
  • “Paingod” (Fantastic, June 1964)
  • “The Silver Corridor” (Infinity SF, October 1956)
  • [w/ Joe L. Hensley] “Commuter’s Problem” (Fantastic Universe June, June 1957)

More after the jump. (I said there was a huge batch!)

• H. L. Gold:
  • “At the Post” (Galaxy, October 1953)
  • [w/ L. Sprague de Camp] “None But Lucifer: A Novel“
• Edmond Hamilton: “Crashing Suns” (Weird Tales, August 1928)
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman:
  • “Dream Seed” (Lone Star Stories #30, December 2008)
  • “The Third Dead Body” (The Ultimate Zombie Anthology, 1993)
• Stephen King: “The End of the Whole Mess” (Omni, October 1986)
• C.M. Kornbluth: “The Only Thing We Learn” (Startling Stories, July 1949)
• Mary Robinette Kowal: “Waiting for Rain” (Subterranean, Fall 2008)
• Geoffrey A. Landis: “A Walk in the Sun” (Asimov’s, October 1991)
• Jonathan Lethem: “How We Got In Town and Out Again” (Asimov’s, September 1996)
• Ian R. MacLeod: “Isabel of the Fall” (Interzone #169, July 2001)
• Jack McDevitt:
  • “Cryptic” (Asimov’s, April 1983)
  • “Melville On Iapetus” (Asimov’s, November 1983)
  • “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City” (Artemis, August 2001)
  • “Tweak” (Baen’s Universe, October 2007)
  • [w/ Michael Shara] “Cool Neighbor” (Analog, March 2007)
  • [w/ Michael Shara] “Lighthouse” (Analog, April 2006)
• Hayford Peirce: “Doing Well While Doing Good” (Analog, August 1975)
• Tim Pratt: “Artifice and Intelligence” (Strange Horizons, June 2007)
• Cherie Priest: “Tanglefoot” (Subterranean, Fall 2008)
• Robert Reed: “A Woman’s Best Friend” (Clarkesworld #27, December 2008)
• Mike Resnick:
  • “For I Have Touched the Sky” (F & SF, December 1989)
  • “One Perfect Morning, with Jackals” (Asimov’s, March 1991)
  • “Spring Taining: A Lucifer Jones Story” (Subterranean, Fall 2008)
  • [w/ Lezli Robyn] “Idle Roomer” (Clarkesworld #26, November 2008)
• David J. Schow [writing as Chan McConnell]: “Blossom” (Book of the Dead Anthology, 1989)
• Robert Sheckley: “City of the Dead” (Galaxy, January 1994)
• Norman Spinrad: “Outward Bound” (Analog, March 1964)
• Michael Swanwick:
  • “A Midwinter’s Tale” (Asimov’s, December 1988)
  • “Ginungagap” (TriQuarterly #49, 1980)
  • “The Dead” (Starlight Anthology #1, 1996)
  • “The Feast of Saint Janis” (New Dimensions #11, 1980)
  • “Trojan Horse” (Omni, December 1964)
• K. D. Wentworth: “Sand Dance“
• Wayne Wightman: “In the Realm of the Heart” (Asimov’s, August 1985)

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