Here's another batch of free fiction coming to you from the ever-vigilant site Free Speculative Fiction Online, an increasingly indispensable resource for fiction of a free-ish nature. Be sure to check them out for alternate versions and a whole lot more.

41 titles in all by first-rate authors, a subset of which can only be called an Elizabeth-Bear-fest...

1. Paolo Bacigalupi: "Pop Squad" [PDF]
2. Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Calorie Man" [PDF]
3. Paolo Bacigalupi: "Yellow Card Man" [PDF]
4. Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette: "Boojum" (Fast Ships, Black Sails Anthology, 2008)
5. Elizabeth Bear: "Cryptic Coloration" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 2 No. 1, June 2007)
6. Elizabeth Bear: "House of the Rising Sun" (The Third Alternative #42, 2005)
7. Elizabeth Bear: "Los Empujadores Furiosos" (On Spec, Winter 2005)
8. Elizabeth Bear: "One-eyed Jack and the Suicide King" (Lennox Avenue, April 2005)
9. Elizabeth Bear: "Shoggoths in Bloom" (Asimov's, March 2008)
10. Elizabeth Bear: "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" (The Del Rey Book of SF & F Anthology, 2008)
11. Elizabeth Bear: "The Chains That You Refuse" (Chiaroscuro, April 2004)
12. Elizabeth Bear: "The Cold Blacksmith" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 1 No. 1, June 2006)
13. Elizabeth Bear: "The Company of Four"
14. Elizabeth Bear: "The Devil You Don't"
15. Elizabeth Bear: "The Ladies" (Coyote Wild, December 2007)
16. Elizabeth Bear: "The Rest of Your Life in a Day" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 2 No. 3, October 2007)
17. Elizabeth Bear: "The Something-Dreaming Game" (Audio) (Fast Forward Anthology, 2007)
18. Elizabeth Bear: "Wax" (Audio) (Subterranean, Summer 2007)
19. Paul Chafe: "Windows of the Soul" (Man-Kzin Wars Anthology #9, 2002)
20. A. Bertram Chandler: "Chance Encounter" (New Worlds, March 1959)
21. Stanton A. Coblentz: "Flight Through Tomorrow" (Fantasy Book Vol. 1 No. 1, 1947)
22. Graham Edwards: "Riding the Drop" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 6, April 2009)
23. James Alan Gardner: "The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses" (Federations Anthology, 2009)
24. Caitlín R. Kiernan: "Les Fleurs Empoisonnées" [vt In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers] (Subterranean, 2002)
25. Caitlín R. Kiernan: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" (Gothic.net, 2002)
26. Nancy Kress: "The Erdmann Nexus" (Asimov's, October 2008)
27. Jay Lake & Shannon Page: "Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story" (Clarkesworld, April 2009)
28. John Lambshead: "Storming Hell" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 6, April 2009)
29. Edward M. Lerner: "Calculating Minds" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 6, April 2009)
30. Brian Lumley: "Snarker's Son" (New Tales of Terror Anthology, 1980)
31. Ken MacLeod: "A Tulip for Lucretius" (Subterranean, Spring 2009)
32. Jack McDevitt: "The Candidate" (Nature, March 2005)
33. Robert Reed: "Truth" (Asimov's, October 2008)
34. Henry Slesar: "My Father, the Cat" (Fantastic Universe, December 1957)
35. Henry Slesar: "Reluctant Genius" (Amazing, January 1957)
36. Bud Sparhawk: "Primrose Rescue" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 6, April 2009)
37. Allen Steele: "The War of Dogs and Boids"
38. Michael Swanwick: "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" (Asimov's, February 2008)
39. Lavie Tidhar: "The Dying World" (Clarkesworld, April 2009)
40. Jeremiah Tolbert: "The Culture Archivist" (Federations Anthology, 2009)
41. Genevieve Valentine: "Carthago Delenda Est" (Federations Anthology, 2009)

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