Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 10/26/2012
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Daily Science Fiction has an interesting story from Christie Yant: “My Mother’s Body”
- Dramapod has the premiere and second episode from season two of Unhinged Worlds
- Jess Nevins has put a [very, very fore] forerunner of steampunk online as a PDF: Electric Bob’s Big Black Ostrich by Robert Toombs (from 1893)
Written
- @365 tomorrows: “Old Cars Never Die” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “My Mother’s Body” by Christie Yant [Science Fiction]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Rags to Riches” by Robert Swartwood [Horror Flash]
- @Nature: “Glass future” by Deborah Walker [Science Fiction]
- @Phantasmacore: “Dangerous Rendezvous” by Grove Koger
- @Phantasmacore: “Dying Day” by Michael C. Keith
- @Phantasmacore: “Montalov’s Box” by Michael Griffin
- @Phantasmacore: “Assignment” by Sayuri Yamada
- @Tor: “The Shadowy Third” by Ellen Glasgow [Ghost Story]
- @Tor: “A Ghost Story” by Mark Twain [Ghost Story]
Written – Serialized
- @Paizo: Proper Villains by Erik Scott de Bie – Chapter Four: The Reward [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews – Chapter Five, Part 1 [Contemporary Fantasy]
Audio
- Escape Pod #367 – “Lion Dance” by Vylar Kaftan [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- @Dramapod: Unhinged Worlds – Season 2, Episode 1: “Exit 34” – Season 2, Episode 2: “The Bench” [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Amaranth (The Resistance Trilogy) by Rachael Wade [Contemporary Fantasy Romance Novel – First of Series]
- Awfully Familiar by Michael Tresca [Fantasy Novel]
- Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Iain Grant [Comic Fantasy Novel]
- Empire of Light by Gregory Earls [Fantasy Novel]
- Forced Conversion by Donald J. Bingle [Science Fiction Novel]
- Ladybird, Ladybird by Abra Ebner [YA Fantasy Novel]
- “Supper” by Carolyn McCray [Horror Short Story]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- Great Ghost Stories by Various [Ghost Story Anthology from 1918]
- @Other: Electric Bob’s Big Black Ostrich by Robert Toombs [Edisonade / Proto-Steampunk from 1893 – PDF]
Novel Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol [Graphic Novel]
