Free SF/F/H Fiction for 5/19/2012

Written

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #95 – May 17, 2012:
  • “The Governess and the Lobster” by Margaret Ronald [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
  • “Shades of Amber” by Marie Croke [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
• @Best SF: “Anise” by Chris DeVito [Science Fiction]
• @Buzzy Mag: “Levels” by Rik Hunik [Science Fiction]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Tome of Tourmaline” by Ken Liu [Fantasy]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Wrong World” by Steve J Myers [Science Fiction]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Great White Ship” by Lou Antonelli [Alt History]
• @Eschatology: “Manchurian Express” by Henry Lu [Flash Fiction]
• @Flash Fiction Online: “Star Maven” by Sarah Crysl Akhtar [Flash Fiction]
• @Flash Fiction Online: “The Deep” by Adam Smith [Flash Fiction]
• @Nature: “Ravages of time” by Alex Shvartsman [Science Fiction]
• @Ray Gun Revival: “The Excalibur” by Robin Bailes [Science Fiction]
• @SFX Spotlight: “Footvote” by Peter F. Hamilton [Science Fiction]
• @Tor: “Dress Your Marines in White” by Emmy Laybourne [Science Fiction]
• @Weirdyear: “My Tolstoy” by Edward T. Keller [Flash Fiction]
• @Yesteryear: “The Iron Balloon” by Tony Rauch [Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: “Amelie’s Guardian” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt [Fantasy]

Written – Serialized

• @DarkFuse: Collected Songs of Sonnelion (Chapters 1 – 13) by Lee Thompson [Horror]
• @Ray Gun Revival: “The Worker Prince – Chapter Eleven (part one)” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt [Science Fiction]
• @Silver Blade: “We Apologize for the Interruption – Part 1” by Eliyanna Kaiser [Science Fiction]

Audio

• @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “A Marble for the Drowning River” by Ann Chatham [Fantasy]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #116 – Clarence Sale [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #117 – It’s a Wonderful Life [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #118 – The Terrier Brush Man [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Cast of Wonders #39 – “Living Clay” by Lucy Oliver [YA Fantasy]
• Drabblecast #243 – “The Other Lila” by Gwendolyn Clare [Science Fiction]
• Escape Pod #345 – “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
• PodCastle #208 – “Fable From a Cage” by Tim Pratt [Fantasy]
• StarShipSofa #238 – Hannu Rajaniemi [Science Fiction]
• Tales To Terrify #19 – H.P. Lovecraft [Horror]
• @Author’s Site: “Why School Buses Are Yellow” by James Patrick Kelly [Silly Spec]

Audio – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: “THE ALL-PRO Episode #29” by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Barely Alive (Barely Alive Series) by Bonnie R. Paulson [YA Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
  • Double Dare by David Bain and Wayne Allen Sallee [Two-Author Horror Collection]
  • Emerald City Dreamer (Dreams by Streetlight) by Luna Lindsey [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Rich Pickings For Ravens (The Afterlife Crisis Trilogy) by Tom Conrad [Horror Humor Novel – First of Series]

Novel Excerpts

• @Gollancz Blog: “Chapter Four: Black Dow” from The Heroes  by Joe Abercrombie [Fantasy]
• @Suvudu: Excerpt from Sky Dragons by Anne and Todd McCaffrey [Fantasy]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Struck by Jennifer Bosworth [Contemporary Fantasy]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne [YA Science Fiction]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Of Poseidon by Anna Banks [Fantasy]

Other

• @Tor: “An Illustrated Recap of the Toronto Comic Art Festival” by Faith Erin Hicks [Comic]