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