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The incomparable free fiction reference Free Speculative Fiction Online has added yet another batch of new additions to it's incredible lineup of free fiction, many coming as free samples from Baen's Webscriptions. Sure, some of them may have already been posted here, but there's plenty of new stuff to consume. So, have at them!
- John Barnes: "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away"
- Elizabeth Bear: "War Stories"
- Greg Bear: "Richie by the Sea"
- Greg Bear: "Sisters"
- Greg Bear: "The White Horse Child"
- Greg Bear: "Webster"
- Gregory Benford & David Brin: "I Could've Done Better"
- Beth Bernobich: "Shopping Spree"
- Ben Bova: "Moon Race"
- Richard Bowes: "If Angels Fight"
- David Brin: "Shoresteading"
- David Brin: "The Smartest Mob"
More after the jump...
- Tobias S. Buckell: "Manumission"
- Lillian Stewart Carl: "The Test of Gold"
- A. Bertram Chandler: "Hall of Fame" [a.k.a. "The Kingsolving's Planet Irregulars"]
- A. Bertram Chandler: "The Bird-Brained Navigator"
- A. Bertram Chandler: "The Rim Gods"
- A. Bertram Chandler: "The Subtracter" [a.k.a. "The Minus Effect"]
- A. Bertram Chandler: "With Good Intentions"
- Ted Chiang: "Exhalation" (Audio)
- Ian Creasey: "Demonstration Day"
- Linda Evans & Robert R. Hollingsworth: "Little Red Hen"
- Linda Evans: "The Farmer's Wife"
- Charles Coleman Finlay: "The Political Prisoner"
- M. Alan Ford: "Quasi"
- Tony Frazier: "Double-Secret Weapon"
- Carl Frederick: "Concentration of Dogs"
- Carl Frederick: "Food for Thought"
- Carl Frederick: "Weredragons of Mars"
- Dave Freer: "Thin Ice"
- David Gerrold: "Spiderweb"
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman: "Discards "
- James P. Hogan: "Murphy's War"
- Sarah Hoyt: "Scraps of Fog "
- Matthew Hughes: "Falberoth's Ruin"
- Matthew Hughes: "Finding Sajessarian"
- Matthew Hughes: "Mastermindless"
- Matthew Hughes: "Relics of the Thim"
- Dean Ing: "Cathouse"
- Dean Ing: "Fleas"
- Naomi Kritzer: "The Good Son"
- Jay Lake: "Last Plane to Heaven"
- John Lambshead: "The Temple of Thorns"
- Sharon Lee & Steve Miller: "Misfits"
- Edward M. Lerner: "A Stranger in Paradise"
- Edward M. Lerner: "At the Watering Hole"
- Shariann Lewitt: "Camelot"
- Brad Linaweaver: "And to the Republic For Which It Stands"
- Marissa Lingen: "Loki's Net"
- Marissa Lingen: "Making Alex Frey"
- Elisabeth Malartre: "Darwin's Suitcase"
- Todd McCaffrey: "Tribute"
- Jack McDevitt: "Indomitable"
- L. E. Modesitt, Jr.: "Astralis"
- Elizabeth Moon: "Tradition"
- Ruth Nestvold: "Mars: "A Traveler's Guide"
- Larry Niven: "Smut Talk"
- Larry Niven: "The Color of Sunfire"
- Jody Lynn Nye: "Virtually, A Cat"
- Robert Reed: "Floating Over Time" (Audio)
- Robert Reed: "Roxie" (Audio)
- Robert Reed: "The Visionaries" (Audio)
- Robert Reed: "Two Sams"
- Mike Resnick: "Article of Faith"
- Mike Resnick: "Chartreuse Mansions"
- Mike Resnick: "Christmas Eve at Harvey Wallbanger's"
- Mike Resnick: "El Presidente"
- Mike Resnick: "Honorable Enemies"
- Mike Resnick: "The Big Guy"
- Mike Resnick: "The Island of Annoyed Souls"
- Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow: "True Names"
- Chuck Rothman: "A Date With Patti Pleezmi"
- Fred Saberhagen: "The Long Way Home"
- Fred Saberhagen: "Volume PAA-PYX"
- J. Simon: "The Rings of Ragnaran"
- Bud Sparhawk: "Primrose and Thorn"
- Bud Sparhawk: "Pumpkin"
- Bud Sparhawk: "The Super"
- S. M. Stirling: "Cops and Robbers"
- S. M. Stirling: "Lost Legion"
- S. M. Stirling: "Riding Shotgun to Armageddon"
- S. M. Stirling: "Roachstompers"
- S. M. Stirling: "The Charge of Lee's Brigade"
- S. M. Stirling: "The Sixth Sun"
- S. M. Stirling: "Three Walls - 32nd Campaign"
- Eric James Stone: "Premature Emergence"
- Mark Thies: "Incursion"
- E. Catherine Tobler: "Waking Ophelia"
- Tom Van Natta: "Ted"
- Carrie Vaughn: "Free Space"
- Carrie Vaughn: "Swing Time"
- David Weber: "The Traitor"
- Bud Webster: "The Lordly Loofah"
- K. D. Wentworth: "Kaleidoscope"
- Eric Witchey: "Running Water to L.A."
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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday March 23, 2009 at 12:25 AM
© 2009 SF Signal
You know what's so cool is, you could take two or three stories a month and do a whole Reading Group just around free SF that authors have put out there for consumption. And I bet you'd never run out.
I love it. I take posts like this and leave it, and a story or two at a time, open. And then in odd moments, I just flip to that tab and read some short fiction. It takes me ages to work through these lists, but I love that they exist.
Hooray for free.
(And actually, it works, in that I can't necessarily afford to buy a novel by S.M. Stirling to find out if I like the author, since books get pricier by the day it seems...but I can easily read several short stories and like 'em. And then the author becomes a sure bet and I'll happily spend the money on the books. Free stuff on the 'net really accomplishes something.)
Posted by Pete Tzinski on Monday March 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM
You know, sfsignal should start a reading group. We could have weekly readings and post about it here.
Posted by A_Z on Tuesday March 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Hmmm...That's an idea. About the closest we come now is the bookshelf on the home page...
Posted by John D. on Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM