Free SF/F/H Fiction for 8/1/2012
New Experiment Time: I’d like to expand the reach of this listing. If you have a short story you’ve just published on your website or upcoming Kindle or other ebook promotions, please let me know (for ebook promos, please let me know the date range). I can’t guarantee that I’ll get everything up, but it can’t hurt for you to hassle me via e-mail.
Written
- @Buzzy Mag: “Wand of Ash: The Proving” by Madison Woods [Urban Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Mechanical Heart of Him” by Cate Gardner [Magic Realism]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Power of the Cocoon” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Twenty Ways the Desert Could Kill You” by Sarah Pinsker [Science Fiction]
- Electric Velocipede #24 – Summer 2012:
- “Cutting” by Ken Liu
- Lovecraft eZine #16 – July 2012:
- “In the Tank” by Scott Nicolay [Horror]
- “The Thing in the Depths” by Pete Rawlik [Horror]
- “Fish Eye” by David A. Riley [Horror]
- “Fade to Black” by Robert Borski [Horror]
- “The Visitor From Outside” by A.J. French [Horror]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “A Resubmission to Xenobiology by Clark et al.” by S. R. Algernon [Science Fiction]
- @Nature: “Lifeboat” by David Carr [Science Fiction]
- @Strange Horizons: “The Death of the Duke” by Ellen Kushner [Fantasy]
- @Weird Fiction Review: “The Neglected Garden” by Kathe Koja [Weird]
- @Weirdyear: “Down By the Lakeside” by Lewis R Humphries [Weird]
- @Yesteryear: “The Protector” by Erin Tomlonson [Fantasy]
Written – Serialized
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Henry, Caesar of the Air, His Life and Times, or, The Book of Qat: Part 1” by Lavie Tidhar [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Henry, Caesar of the Air, His Life and Times, or, The Book of Qat: Part 2” by Lavie Tidhar [Fantasy]
- @DarkFuse: “Collected Songs of Sonnelion (Chapter 23)” by Lee Thompson [Horror]
- @More Red Ink: “One – Part 2 of 3” by George Alec Effinger [Science Fiction]
- @More Red Ink: “One – Part 3 of 3” by George Alec Effinger [Science Fiction]
Audio
- Beware the Hairy Mango #135 – Despair Quotes [Ripe and Delicious Mangoes – 5 for a dollar]
- @Clarkesworld: “Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers” by Sunny Moraine [Science Fiction]
- Drabblecast #250 – Trifecta XXII [Fantasy and Science Fiction]
- Drabblecast #251 – “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft [Horror]
- Escape Pod #355 – “Grandmother” by Cat Rambo [Science Fiction]
- @Lovecraft eZine: “In the Tank” by Scott Nicolay [Horror]
- @Lovecraft eZine: “The Thing in the Depths” by Pete Rawlik [Horror]
- @Lovecraft eZine: “Fish Eye” by David A. Riley [Horror]
- @Lovecraft eZine: “Fade to Black” by Robert Borski [Horror]
- @Lovecraft eZine: “The Visitor From Outside” by A.J. French [Horror]
- PodCastle #218 – “Insect Joy” by Caspian Gray [Fantasy]
- Pseudopod #292 – “Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You” by David J. Schow [Horror]
- StarShipSofa #248 – Grant Stone [Science Fiction]
- Tales To Terrify #29 – William Hope Hodgson [Horror]
- Toasted Cake #31 – “Coyote Barbie” by Cat Rambo [Fantasy]
Audio – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: “Crazy Me Part One” by James Patrick Kelly [Raccoons]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Flashback (The Saskia Brandt Series Book Two) by Ian Hocking [Science Fiction Novel]
- Yesterday’s Gone: Episode 18 by David Wright and Sean Platt [Science Fiction Novella]
- Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur (The Pendragon Chronicles) by Ruth Nestvold [Fantasy Novel]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- Out of Time’s Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs [Science Fiction Novel]
Novel Excerpts
- @Gollancz: Chapter Four from Trinity Rising by Elspeth Cooper [Fantasy]
- @Gollancz: Chapter One from The Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin [Dark Fantasy]
- @Orbit Books: Excerpt from The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow [Steampunk
- @Staffer’s Book Review: Excerpt from Knifesworn by Mazarkis Williams [Fantasy]
- @Staffer’s Book Review: Excerpt from The Merchant of Dreams by Anne Lyle [Fantasy]
- @Staffer’s Book Review: Excerpt from The Straits of Galahesh by Bradley P. Beaulieu [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson [Fantasy]
