Free SF/F/H Fiction for 2/29/2012
Question for the free fiction readers: Are there ways to improve on these semi-weekly Free Fiction posts? Separating Fantasy, SF and Horror? A different list for Flash Fiction? Please leave a comment below if you know of a way to make these posts better for you.
Written
- @Asimov’s: “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011)
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Digital Blues” by Greg Mellor
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Prisoners” by D.K. Latta
- Electric Velocipede #23 (from last year, some stories missed):
- “The Art Disease” by Dennis Danvers
- “Dancing in the Winter Rooms” by David Tallerman
- “Fastening” by Patricia Russo
- “Fish out of Water” by Deborah Fitchett
- “A Reason to Fear Life, a Reason to Crave Death” by Andrew Kaye
- “The Empire Never Ended” by Brian Trent
- “Through the Uprights” by Richard Butner
- @Hadley Rille: “Gravity’s Dance” by Michael A. Burstein (Flash Fiction)
- @Lightspeed: “Not Our Brother” by Robert Silverberg
- @Lightspeed: “Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn (also available in audio)
- Lovecraft eZine #11:
- “Marked as Urgent” by A.J. French
- “This Scattered Ash” by W.H. Pugmire and Jacob Henry Orloff
- “I Am the Key” by Mike Davis
- “Inheritance” by Patricia Correll
- “Dark Ambient Metamorphosis” by John Claude Smith
- “The Locked Door” by Brian M. Sammons
- @Mindflights: “Watcher In The Wings” by Angela Carr
- @New Haven Review: “The Axiom of Choice” by David W. Goldman (Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011)
- @Short-Story.me: “A Song of Aine” by Kevin J. Mackey
- Silver Blade #13:
- “Cave Canem” by Edward Ahern
- “Doctor Daydream” by Sylvia Heartz
- “Dinner for One” by Beau Johnson
- “Protector” by Adam Armstrong
- “The Red Thread” by Ephiny Gale
- “Winter Choice” by Olga Godim
- @Weird Fiction Review: “The Liberators” by Kali Wallace
- @Wily Writers: “The Collector (Or, Google It)” by Mason Ian Bundschuh (also available in audio)
- @Author’s Site: “E-Male” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- @Author’s Site: “Hestia” by J. M. McDermott
- @Author’s Site: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu (Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011)
- @Author’s Site: “Shipbirth” by Aliette de Bodard (Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 2011)
Written – Serialized
- @Ray Gun Revival: “The Worker Prince – Chapter Seven (part one)” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
- @Author’s Site: “A Sudden Outbreak of Magic: Chapter Thirteen” by Michael Jasper
- @Author’s Site: “Grim Tides (Chapter 10. Revengers Assemble)” by T.A. Pratt (series begins with Chapters 1 & 2 here)
Audio
- Beam Me Up #301 Unfinished Business #5 – Kahn
- @Lightspeed: “Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn
- @Podcastle: “Urchins, While Swimming” by Catherynne M. Valente
- @Toasted Cake: “Incantation” by Jessica Reisman
- @Wily Writers: “The Collector (Or, Google It)” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
Audio – Serialized
- Beam Me Up #302 Movement pt1 – Nancy Fulda + Billions of Stars – K J Kabza
- @Cthulhu: “The Derelict, part 1”
- @Dunesteef: “The Ever-Dreaming Verdict Of Plagues (Part 1)” by Jason Sanford
- @Author’s Site: “THE ALL-PRO Episode #18” by Scott Sigler
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- “Wild Child” by Mike Wells (Fantasy Novella)
Novel Excerpts
- @Paizo: Sample Chapter from Song of the Serpent by Hugh Matthews
Personally, I don’t think these posts need to be improved. It’s such a great resource for those of us wishing to find stuff to read for free. Given the time put in to gathering these links, I can gladly spend a bit of my own to see if any given story is something I believe I’d enjoy.
Thank you for these posts!
I personally would like to see them separated by genre, or a simple note next to the stories telling me which genre I am looking at.
I pity the person who tries to draw clear lines between literary genres…
I pity the notion that I may very well be that person. What’s the difference between horror and dark fantasy again? 🙂
I’m with Spaz — this is a great set of posts and I cannot imagine how to improve them…oh, wait, what about more Guttenberg entries?!
I would deeply appreciate separating SF, Fantasy and Horror. I am not a huge fan of either of the latter two and, titles can be (inadvertently) misleading.
Rick York
The present link to “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson goes to an excerpt from that story. The whole story is available at http://www.asimovs.com/2012_04-05/pdfs/Mist_Johnson.pdf .