More Free Fiction Than You Can Shake A Stick At
By John DeNardo |
Monday, January 12th, 2009 at
12:21 am
There is a huge batch of new free fiction linked to at Free Speculative Fiction. Some of these are duplicates of stuff we’ve already posted before in other posts, but it can’t hurt to mention them again, can it?
Check ‘em out:
- Paolo Bacigalupi: “The Gambler” (Fast Forward Anthology #2, 2008)
- Greg Bear & S. M. Stirling: “The Man Who Would Be Kzin” (Man-Kzin Wars Anthology #4, 1991)
- Marie Brennan:
- “A Thousand Souls” (Aberrant Dreams, January 2007)
- “Calling into Silence“
- “For the Fairest” (Son and Foe #1, 2006)
- “Kingspeaker” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #3, November 2008)
- “Silence, Before the Horn“
- “Such as Dreams Are Made Of” (Aberrant Dreams, Summer 2006)
- Steven Brust: “Bluff“
- John W. Campbell: “The Last Evolution” (Amazing, August 1932)
- Mark Clifton: Eight Keys to Eden (Doubleday, 1960)
Much more after the jump…
- Colin P. Davies:
- “Babel 3000” (Asimov’s, March 2007)
- “Chicken” (Exuberance #3, 1991)
- “Pestworld” (Bewildering Stories #223, 2007)
- David Drake: Starliner (Baen, June 1992)
- Charles Coleman Finlay & Rae Carlson Finlay: “The Crystal Stair” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #3, November
- Jay Lake: “A Water Matter” (Tor.com, October 2008)
- Bruce McAllister: “Game” (Flash Fiction Online, May 2008)
- Sandra McDonald:
- “A Lock of Ra” (Lone Star Stories #12, December 2005)
- “Lost and Found” (Strange Horizons, May 2003)
- “The Heirs of Cenpa” (Lone Star Stories #8, April 2005)
- “The Hero of Ward 6” (Lone Star Stories #26, April 2008)
- “The Mountains of Key West” (Lone Star Stories #15, June 2006)
- “Woman of the Lace” (The Town Drunk, July 2006)
- Vonda McIntyre:
- “Misprint” (Nature, July 2008)
- “Night Harvest” (Odyssey #4, 1998)
- The Moon and the Sun (Pocket)
- “The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea” (Book View CafĂ©, November 2008)
- Larry Niven:
- “Madness Has Its Place” (Asimov’s, June 1990)
- “The Warriors” (If, February 1966)
- Rog Phillips: “Unthinkable” (Amazing, May 1949)
- Mike Resnick: “The Fallen Angel” (Flash Fiction Online, January 2009)
- Chris Roberson: “Ill Met in Elvera“
- Bruce Holland Rogers:
- “Daddy” (Flash Fiction Online, August 2008)
- “Reconstruction Work” (Flash Fiction Online, December 2007)
- “The Bullfrog and His Shadows” (Flash Fiction Online, July 2008)
- “The House of Women” (Flash Fiction Online, September 2008)
- “What To Expect” (Flash Fiction Online, October 2008)
- Geoff Ryman: “The Film-makers of Mars” (Tor.com, December 2008)
- Robert Silverberg: Starman’s Quest (Gnome Press, 1958)
- Marc Stiegler:
- Earthweb (Baen, May 1999)
- “The Gentle Seduction” (Analog, April 1989)
- James Van Pelt: “Just Before Recess” (Flash Fiction Online, March 2008)
- David Weber: The Shadow of Saganami (Baen, November 2004)
- Sean Williams: “A View Before Dying” (Eidolon, 1996)
- Robert F. Young: “The Servant Problem” (Analog, November 1962)
Related posts:
- Free Fiction, Fresh & Huge!
- A Roundup of Recently-Free Fiction
- F&SF Website Posts Free Fiction
- Still Yet More Free Fiction
- Free Classic Science Fiction
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When I read “More free fiction than you can shake a stick at”, I think to myself, “Awards season is awesome! MORE FREE STUFF! WOOHOO!”