Free Fiction for Tuesday 4/28/09

• @Manybooks.net: The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science.
• Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, a brand new Creative Commons-licensed anthology of 9 SF and fantasy stories and 5 works of art. [via Tor]
• @Fantasy Magazine: “Garkain” by Samantha Henderson.
• @Strange Horizons: “Lily Glass” by Veronica Schanoes.
• @Hub: “My Dad’s Idea” by Llinos Cathryn Thomas.
• @Afterburn SF:
  • “Milk-Toothed” By C. L. Rossman.
  • “Family Tree” by Michelle Scott.
• @Audio Fiction:
  • @Pseudopod: “Old Ways” by Dan Dworkin, read by Jenna Sharpe.
  • @Escape Pod: “Evil Robot Monkey” by Mary Robinette Kowal, read by Stephen Eley.
  • @Maria Lectrix: Chapter 10 of The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell, Jr., read by Maureen O’Brien.
  • @The Classic Tales Podcast: The conclusion of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by B. J. Harrison.
  • @Beam Me Up: “The Colors Twelve” by Shaun Saunders and “Best Laid Plans” by Crystalwizard, read by Paul Cole.
  • @LibriVox:
    • Niels Klim’s Journey Under the Ground by Baron Ludvig Holberg, read by Alan Winterrowd
    • “The Stars, My Brothers” by Edmond Hamilton, read by Gregg Margarite. [via SF Signal]
    • Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 013 with stories by Lou Tabakow, Nathaniel Gordon, Benjamin Ferris, Basil Wells, Ben Bova, J. F. Bone, Arnold Castle, Henry Slesar, Dean Ing, and Roger Kuykendall.
    • Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 014 with stories by Robert J. Martine, G.C. Edmondson, Charles E. Fritch, Allan Howard, H. Beam Piper, J.F. Bone, Charles Leonard Harness and Theodore Lockhard Thomas, Jack Douglas, C.C. Beck, and Damon Knight.
• Fan fiction is alive and well, as evidenced by stories inspired by George Orwell’s 1984, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan series, Frank Herbert’s Dune, Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea Trilogy, Philip Pillman’s His Dark Materials, Gene Brewer’s K-PAX, Forgotten Realms, and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies.

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