Free SF/F/H Fiction for 10/03/2012
Back after an unexpected two-week hiatus. There are over a hundred links here so you may want to go to the bathroom first.
Written
- @AE: “Thirteen Generations” by James Bambury [Science Fiction]
- @AE: “Grangy” by Michael Hodges [Science Fiction]
- @Anotherealm: “Phobia — A not so irrational fear” by J K Brennan [Horror]
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #104 – September 20, 2012:
- “The Ascent of Unreason” by Marie Brennan [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
- “Worth of Crows” by Seth Dickinson [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
- @Black Gate: “The Duelist” by Jason E. Thummel [Fantasy]
- Clarkesworld #73 – October 2012:
- “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones” by Genevieve Valentine [Science Fiction]
- “England under the White Witch” by Theodora Goss
- “The Battle of Candle Arc” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]
- @Cosmos: “Lifting” by Barton Paul Levenson [Science Fiction]
- @Cosmos: “Another Country” by Margo Lanagan [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Whisper” by Douglas Sterling [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Said the Princess” by Dani Atkinson [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Old Friends” by Shane Wilwand [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Fool’s Gold” by Frank Dutkiewicz [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Triumph” by Robert Reed [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Professor Jennifer Magda-Chichester’s Time Machine” by Julian Mortimer Smith [Time Travel]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Intolerance” by VG Campen [Humor]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Where You End and the World Begins” by Sam Ferree [Magic Realism]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “From the Divide” by Nathan Tavares [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Blood Oranges” by K.C. Shaw [Fantasy]
- @Flash Fiction Online: “Good As New” by Shane Rhinewald [Weird]
- @Flash Fiction Online: “Outside the Chase” by Abigail Shaw [Fantasy]
- @Flash Fiction Online: “Vet” by Katherine Clardy [Fantasy]
- @GigaNotoSaurus: “Like Jazzmen Improvising in a Smoky Club” by Ben Burgis [Science Fiction] (also available in EPUB)
- @Kasma SF: “Drilling” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Sun Dogs” by Brooke Bolander [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Monster, Finder, Shifter” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed: “Spindles” by L.B. Gale [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed: “Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment” by Robert Reed [Science Fiction]
- @Locus City: “Test subjects needed” by Mark Anderson Esquire [Science Fiction]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Robot Ethics and the Turkish Turtledove” by Django Mathijsen [Science Fiction]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Financial Strategies for Innovative Researchers” by Kenneth Schneyer [Science Fiction]
- @Nature: “Without” by Fran Wilde [Science Fiction]
- @Nature: “Solidarity“ by George Zebrowski [Science Fiction]
- @Philippine Genre Stories: “Retokado” by Kyra Ballesteros [Fantasy]
- @Philippine Genre Stories: “Divine Light” by Nikki Alfar [Fantasy]
- @Ray Gun Revival: “Human System” by Andy Dudak [Science Fiction]
- @Short-Story.me: “Off of Parks and Druding” by Philip Roberts [Horror]
- @Short-Story.me: “Girls Born in Tunnels” by Kyle Hemmings [Fantasy]
- @Short-Story.me: “Hotel Terra” by Noah Griffith [Science Fiction]
- Subterranean Fall 2012:
- “African Sunrise” by Nnedi Okorafor
- “Game” by Maria Dahvana Headley
- “Two-Stone Tom’s Big T.O.E.” by Brian Lumley
- “When the Shadows are Hungry and Cold (A Milestone Story)” by Kealan Patrick Burke
- @Tor: “Ruled” by Caragh M. O’Brien [YA Dystopian]
- @Tor: “Day of the Kraken” by Michael Swanwick [Fantasy]
- @Tor: “The Department of Alterations” by Gennifer Albin [Fantasy]
- @Tor: “The Commonplace Book” by Jacob Clifton [Steampunk]
- @Way of the Wizard Anthology: “Card Sharp” by Rajan Khanna [Fantasy]
- @Weirdyear: “Taxidermy” by Alina Yudkevich [Weird Flash]
- @Weirdyear: “We Might Be Kings” by Christopher James [Weird]
- @World SF Blog: “The Princess and the Shadowspawn” by Ben Godby [Fantasy]
- @World SF Blog: “Disclosure” by Sarah Newton [Science Fiction]
- @Yesteryear: “Shilah’s Grave” by Marissa Halvorson [Fantasy Flash]
- @Yesteryear: “Do You Believe?” by Bob Skoggins [Fantasy Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Ray Gun Revival: “Drive Like Lightning . . . Crash Like Thunder, part three” by B. Morris Allen [Science Fiction]
- @Strange Horizons: “In the Library of Souls – Part 1 of 2” by Jennifer Mason-Black
- @Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews – Chapter 1, Parts 1 & 2 – Chapter 1, Part 3 – Chapter 2, Part 1 [Contemporary Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Jaydium by Deborah J. Ross writing as Deborah Wheeler – Chapter 12 – Chapter 13 [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Trust by David Moody – Chapter 17 – Chapter 18 – Chapter 19 – Chapter 20 [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
Audio
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “The Ascent of Unreason” by Marie Brennan [Fantasy]
- Beware the Hairy Mango #139 – Faster Food [Mouthwatering]
- Cast of Wonders #55 – Flash Collection II featuring Bethany Powell and David Steffen [YA Flash Fiction]
- @Clarkesworld: “muo-ka’s Child” by Indrapramit Das [Science Fiction]
- @Clarkesworld: “A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones” by Genevieve Valentine [Science Fiction]
- Drabblecast #257 – “Judgement Passed” by Jerry Oltion [Fantasy]
- Drabblecast #258 – “Brown Dust” by Esther Friesner [Fantasy]
- Escape Pod #362 – “Contamination” by Jay Werkheiser [Science Fiction]
- Escape Pod #363 – “Flowing Shapes” by Rajan Khanna [Science Fiction]
- PodCastle #226 – “Hand of God” by Erica Satifka [Fantasy]
- PodCastle #227 – “The Yew’s Embrace” by Francesca Forrest [Fantasy]
- Pseudopod #300 – “The Step” by E.F. Benson [Horror]
- Pseudopod #301 – “The Last Man After the War” by Erich William Bergmeier [Horror]
- Radio Drama Revival #297 – “The Handmaid Takes Her Assignment”, adapted from Margaret Atwood [Science Fiction]
- Radio Drama Revival #298 – “The Handmaid Makes a Break for It”, adapted from Margaret Atwood [Science Fiction]
- StarShipSofa #256 – Charlie Jane Anders [Science Fiction]
- StarShipSofa #257 – Brian Stableford [Science Fiction]
- Tales To Terrify #37 – H.P. Lovecraft, Conrad Williams [Horror]
- Tales To Terrify #38 – Christopher Fowler [Horror]
- Toasted Cake #39 – The Sad History of the Tearless Onion by Ann Leckie, and Appetite for Love by Cat Rambo
- Toasted Cake #40 – “Ten” by Tina Connolly
Audio – Serialized
- Cast of Wonders #54 – “The Great Game, Part 4 – In The Bowels of the Sick Man” by James Vachowski [YA Historical Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “The Wreck of the Godspeed – Part Six” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “The Wreck of the Godspeed – Part Seven” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Broken Aro (The Broken Ones) by Jen Wylie [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Roses At Dusk (The Demonic Series) by M W. Russell [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- Sands of the Solar Empire (The Belmont Saga) by Ren Garcia [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- The War in the Air by H.G. Wells [Science Fiction Novel]
Novel Excerpts
- @Black Static: Free Sample from New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle [Horror]
- @Gollancz: Excerpt from Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry [Fantasy]
- @Gollancz: Excerpt from Moondance of Stonewylde by Kit Berry [Fantasy]
- @Grasping for the Wind: Excerpt from Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams [Urban Fantasy]
- @io9: Excerpt from The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks [Science Fiction]
- @Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Excerpt from The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke [Fantasy]
- @Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Excerpt from Rapture by Kameron Hurley [Science Fiction]
- @Suvudu: Excerpt from Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong [Fantasy]
- @Titan Books: Excerpt from Resident Evil: Retribution – Chapter One by John Shirley [Horror]
- @Tor: Excerpt from A Memory of Light – Chapter One by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Crewel by Gennifer Albin [YA Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpts from The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente – Chapter One – Chapter Two – Chapter Three – Chapter Four – Chapter Five
- @Tor: Excerpt from Home by Matthew Costello [Horror]
- @Tor: Excerpt from The Mongoliad: Book Two [Fantasy] [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Pantomime by Laura Lam [YA Fantasy]
- @Weird Fiction Review: Excerpt from Town of Shadows by Lindsay Stern [Weird]
- @Author’s Site: Excerpt from The Night Beat by Gini Koch [Weird]
Hey — I love these roundups, but I never have time to read each and every story. I would love a feature where you pick a story of the week, or a top 3, or something like that. What do you think?
Andrew, I’ll see what I can do. I’m looking at a few different options right now. Thanks for the suggestion!