A Batch of Free Fiction for You!
Here’s the latest batch of free online fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Audio fiction at Escape Pod: “Resistance” by Tobias S. Buckell, read by Stephen Eley (from the anthology Seeds of Change).
- @Afterburn SF: “Vigilant” by Mike Rimar.
- @MindFlights: “Good News from a Foreign Land” by Diane Gallant.
- @Aberrant Dreams:
- “Souling Night” by Kelly Dunn.
- “The Girl Who Swallowed the Sky” by Jacqueline Bowen.
- “Metal” by Larry Dunn.
- “The Bloodstone Queen” by Verna McKinnon. A teaser prequel to Gate of Souls, A Familiar’s Tale, Book One.
- Audio Fiction @LibriVox: Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 008 all by Alan Edward Nourse, read by many readers.
- Several new ones via Free Speculative Fiction Online:
- “Isostasy” [PDF], “Know How, Can Do” [PDF], and “The Big One” by Michael Blumlein
- “A Question of Courage” by Jesse F. Bone
- “Earthmen Bearing Gifts” by Fredric Brown (1960)
- “UFO” by A. Bertram Chandler (1979)
- “The Putnam Tradition” by Sonya Dorman (1963)
- “Catskin” by Kelly Link (2003)
- “The Wrong Grave” by Kelly Link
- “Pooka and the Pryanik” by Sarah Prineas
- “Qlone” by Rudy Rucker
- “Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years From Today” by Bruce Sterling
- @Electric Velocipede:
- “The Oldest Man on Earth” by Patrick O’Leary.
- “Sitting Round the Stewpot” by Patricia Russo.
- “Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle” by Jonathan Wood.