Free SF/F/H Fiction for 9/12/2012

Written

• @AE: “Empty Earth” by Rick Norwood [Science Fiction]
• Bourbon Penn #5 – September 2012:
  • “Everything You Were Looking For” by Samantha Henderson
  • “American Marsupial” by Clifford Garstang
  • “On That Time We Crossed” by Sam Duda
  • “The Rustic Ladder” by Daniel Ausema
  • “Day of the Creamsicles” by Don Raymond
  • “Faded Dreams of Division Street” by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • “Lucky” by Jeffrey Wooten
• @Cosmos: “The Man Who Betrayed Turing” by Craig DeLancey [Science Fiction]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Mobius Garden” by James Bambury [Magic Realism]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “My People, My People” by Stacey Danielle Lepper [Science Fiction]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Gifter” by Torrey Podmajersky [Fairy Tale]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Summer Reading” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
• Expanded Horizons #37 – September 2012:
  • “Terminós” by Dean Francis Alfar [Fantasy]
  • “The 17th Contest of Body Artistry” by Alex Dally MacFarlane [Science Fiction]
  • “After Papa Died” by Malon Edwards [Fantasy]
• The Future Fire #2012.24:
  • “Je me souviens” by Su J. Sokol
  • “Secrets of the Sea” by Jennifer Marie Brissett
  • “The Harpy” by Laura Heron
  • “Safecracker, Safe” by J.C. Hsyu
  • “Arrow” by Barry King
  • “Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• @Legend of the Five Rings: “Defenders of the Empire” by Shawn Carman [Fantasy]
• @Lightspeed: “The Streets of Ashkelon” by Harry Harrison [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “The Seven Samovars” by Peter Sursi [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
• @Mad Scientist Journal: “Death-Ray Barking Dog Torches Home” by Kyle Yadlosky [Science Fiction]
• @Nature: “If only …” by Tony Ballantyne [Science Fiction]
• @Ray Gun Revival: “Fear from the Past” by Lance J. Mushung [Science Fiction]
• @Tor: “Nell” by Karen Hesse [Fantasy]
• @Weird Fiction Review: “Down the Wall” by Greer Gilman [Fantasy]
• @Weirdyear: “Black Widow” by Rob Bliss [Weird Flash]
• @Wily Writers: “The Precarious Perch of Lookout County” by Russell Linton [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
• @Yesteryear: “The Birth of Dracotha” by Hollis Whitlock [Fantasy]

Written – Serialized

• @Philippine Genre Stories: “The Nameless Ones (Part 2)” by Gabriela Lee [Science Fiction]
• @Strange Horizons: “The Grinnell Method – Part 2 of 2” by Molly Gloss [Apocalypse]
• @Author’s Site: Jaydium – Chapter 10 by Deborah J. Ross writing as Deborah Wheeler [Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: Trust – Chapter 13 – Chapter 14 by David Moody [“Anti-” Science Fiction]

Audio

• Beam Me Up #330 – In Plain Sight #12 – Kahn + The Dive #3 – McKeown [Science Fiction]
• Cast of Wonders #52 – “Retention” by Jason Heitkamper [YA Horror]
• Escape Pod #360 – “Follow That Cathedral!” by Gareth Owens [Science Fiction]
• Journey Into… #43 – “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde [Fantasy]
• @Lightspeed: “The Seven Samovars” by Peter Sursi [Fantasy]
• @Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast: “Houses” by Mark Pantoja [Science Fiction]
• PodCastle #225 – “The Cage” by Jeff VanderMeer [Fantasy]
• Pseudopod #298 – “The Long Road to the Sea” by James L. Sutter [Horror]
• Radio Drama Revival #295 – “Ruby Nine Gets Afloat” by Tom Lopez [Science Fiction]
• StarShipSofa #254 – Allen Steele [Science Fiction]
• Tales To Terrify #35 – John Everson, Laurel Winter [Horror]
• Toasted Cake #37 – “Phys. Ed. 112 Syllabus: You And Your Apocalypse” by Alexander Lumans [Science Fiction]
• @Wily Writers: “The Precarious Perch of Lookout County” by Russell Linton [Fantasy]

Audio – Serialized

• Drabblecast #255 – “The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward pt. 2” by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette [Science Fiction]
• @Author’s Site: “The Wreck of the Godspeed – Part Four” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • 80AD – The Yu Dragon (Book 5) by Aiki Flinthart [Fantasy Novel – Book Five of Series]
  • Cadaver in Chief: A Special Report from the Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse by Steve Hockensmith [Horror Satire Novella]
  • The Moon Stealers and the Quest for the Silver Bough (Book 1) by Tim Flanagan [Middle Grade / YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Savage Winter (Seasons of Paleo) by Rachel Van Dyken [Epic Fantasy Novella – First of Series]
  • Vin of Venus by David Cranmer, Paul D. Brazill & Garnett Elliott [Science Fiction Adventure Novella]
  • Children of the Undead by David Dvorkin [horror, zombie] (Through Friday)
  • Blackburn Burrow [comic]
  • The Chosen by Edward Willett (Through Friday)
  • The Haunted Horn by Edward Willett (Through Friday)
• The Future Fire #2012.24 [EPUB, MOBI, PDF]
• @Author’s Site: Barry’s Tale: A Novella by Lawrence M. Schoen [Science Fiction Novella – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]

Novel Excerpts

• @Civilian Reader: Excerpt from The Wrong Goodbye by Chris F. Holm [Urban Fantasy]
• @Suvudu: Excerpt from Dearly, Beloved by Lia Habel [Steampunk Zombies]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist [Horror]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone [Steam-powered Fantasy]