Free SF/F/H Fiction for 8/29/2012
Written
- @AE: “Until They Come” by Trina Marie Phillips [Science Fiction]
- @Buzzy Mag: “Promises Made in the Dark” by Michelle Rose [Urban Fantasy]
- @Buzzy Mag: “All That Is Seen And Unseen” by Ryan Creel [Urban Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Contagion” by Bruce Holland Rogers [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Reversals” by M. Bennardo [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Watchmaker’s Wife” by Lydia S. Gray [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest” by Bruce Boston [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Colors” by John M Shade [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “30 Pounds of Human Tissue” by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “A Wizard At War” by A. M. Roelke [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed: “Cotillion” by Delia Sherman [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed: “Love Might Be Too Strong a Word” by Charlie Jane Anders [Science Fiction] (also available in audio)
- @Lightspeed: “Breaking the Frame” by Kat Howard [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
- @Lightspeed: “Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick [Science Fiction]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Notes From A Recent Polar Expedition” by Darren Goossens [Science Fiction]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “The Rods of Baghdad” by Paul Williams [Cryptozoology]
- @Nature: “The write rules” by Freya Morris [Science Fiction]
- @Ray Gun Revival: “Neither Big Nor Easy” by Michael S. Roberts [Science Fiction]
- @Strange Horizons: “The Bear with the Quantum Heart” by Renee Carter Hall [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: “Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia” by Rachel Swirsky [Fantasy]
- @Weird Fiction Review: “Of the Liwat’ang Yawa, the Litok-litok and their Prey” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz [Fantasy]
- @Weirdyear: “Invitation to a Beheading” by Adam Mac [Science Fiction]
- @Yesteryear: “Genot Erebus” by Rory Fleming [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “Still Life, With Cats” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “The Trojan Girl” by N. K. Jemisin [Fantasy]
Written – Serialized
- @DarkFuse: “Collected Songs of Sonnelion (Chapter 27)” by Lee Thompson [Horror]
- @Ray Gun Revival: “Drive Like Lightning . . . Crash Like Thunder, part one” by B. Morris Allen [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Jaydium – Chapter 8” by Deborah J. Ross writing as Deborah Wheeler [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “Trust – Chapter 6” by David Moody [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Trust – Chapter 7” by David Moody [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Trust – Chapter 8” by David Moody [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Trust – Chapter 9” by David Moody [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
Audio
- Beam Me Up #328 – Ed McKeown + All That Touches Air con – An Owomoyela [Science Fiction]
- Cast of Wonders #49 – “Miranda and the Butterfly” by Abigail Hilton [YA Fantasy]
- @Clarkesworld: “Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente [Science Fiction]
- Drabblecast #253 – “Maybe the Stars” by Samantha Henderson [Science Fiction]
- Escape Pod #359 – “Chasers” by Scott W. Baker [Science Fiction]
- @LibriVox: Project Mastodon by Clifford Simak [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Love Might Be Too Strong a Word” by Charlie Jane Anders [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Breaking the Frame” by Kat Howard [Fantasy]
- PodCastle #222 – “The Secret Beach” by Tim Pratt [Fantasy]
- PodCastle #223 – “Five Bullets on the Banks of the Sadji” by Keffy R.M. Kehrli [Fantasy]
- Pseudopod #296 – “The Squat” by Sean Logan [Horror]
- StarShipSofa #252 – Adam Roberts [Science Fiction]
- Tales To Terrify #33 – Mark Rigney [Horror]
- Toasted Cake #34 – “Clownspace” by D. Thomas Minton [Slipstream]
- Toasted Cake #35 – “Junie” by E. Catherine Tobler [Fantasy]
Audio – Serialized
- Cast of Wonders #50 – “The Great Game, Part 3 – The Empty Quarter” by James Vachowski [YA Historical Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “The Wreck of the Godspeed – Part Two” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest, Search for the Ifa Scepter by Jason McCammon [YA Fantasy Novel]
- The Black God’s War: A Novella Introducing a new Epic Fantasy by Moses Siregar III [Epic Fantasy Novella]
- The Gateway (Harbinger of Doom Volume 1) by Glenn G. Thater [Fantasy Novella – First of Series]
- Ghosts of Niagara by Regan Wolfrom [Science Fiction Novelette]
- Rock of Aeons by Lawrence Kapture [Urban Fantasy Novel – Free on Wednesday, Aug 29th only]
- The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers Series) by G. P. Ching [Fantasy – Book One of Series]
- To The Stars (The Harry Irons Trilogy) by Thomas Stone [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – First of Series]
- Vignetta in the Red House by Lawrence Kapture [Fantasy Novel – Free on Wednesday, Aug 29th only]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- A Columbus of Space by Garrett Putman Serviss [Science Fiction Novel]
- The Moon Metal by Garrett Putman Serviss [Science Fiction Novelette]
- The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss [Science Fiction Novel]
- The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs [Fantasy Collection]
Novel Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from Forge of Darkness – Chapter Four by Steven Erikson [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Forge of Darkness – Chapter Five by Steven Erikson [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Quintessence by David Walton [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas [Fantasy]
- @Weird Fiction Review: Excerpt from Troll, A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo [Fantasy]
Other
- Comics:
- @Tor: Comic Excerpt from Clockwork Sky, Volume I by Madeleine Rosca [Steampunk]
- @Tor: “Appreciating the Animation (and Story) of ParaNorman” by Faith Erin Hicks
- @Tor: “Does Neuromancer Hold Up Now That its World Isn’t as Unique?” by John Bonner
Book View Cafe offers several free stories ( http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/genre/free-fiction/ ), including one (Sue Lange’s “PremiumExistenceTM”) that is listed as “free for a limited time only”.