Free SF/F/H Fiction for 10/11/2012
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- The editor of the Beyond the Sun Anthology, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, is trying to raise money for the project via Kickstarter. One of the stories from Beyond the Sun is “Respite” by Autumn Rachel Dryden.
- A slew of new-to-me sources, including Antipodean SF.
- Another one of my short stories was made free by Amazon: “Proxima” by Regan Wolfrom
Written
- @365 tomorrows: “Free Minded” by Ian Florida [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Abomination: “Fruitful” by Josh Wagner [Horror]
- @Abomination: “Fissure” by WB Stickel [Horror]
- @Abomination: “Candles” by Paul Chatlain [Horror]
- Antipodean SF #172 – October 2012:
- “Alone” by Claire Lockyer [Science Fiction]
- “Settlement Day” by Kevin J. Phyland [Science Fiction]
- “The Sins Of A Father” by Bart Meehan [Horror]
- “Tourist Regulator” by Simon Jones [Horror]
- “Splat” by Richard J. Dowling [Science Fiction]
- @Big Pulp: “Uvlechenie” by DeAnna Knippling [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Not the Destination” by Richard E. Gropp [Science Fiction]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “St’armra the Elf Lord” by Hercynius [Fairy Tale]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “Fleet Is the Sand” by Patricia Scott [Fairy Tale]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “No Harm in Tears” by Lissa Sloan [Fairy Tale]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “The Talking Fountain” by Diana Părpăriţă [Fairy Tale]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Darker Ever After” by Milo James Fowler [Horror Flash]
- Fear and Trembling #49:
- “Over the Fence” by Devin Miller [Horror]
- “The Bird of the Asylum” by Daniel Algara [Horror]
- “Terminated” by Stoney M. Setzer [Horror]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Evolution of Horror” by Frank Larnerd [Horror Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Love Story” by James Marlow [Horror Flash]
- @Grasping for the Wind: “Respite” by Autumn Rachel Dryden [Science Fiction – Part of the Beyond the Sun Anthology]
- Interstellar Fiction #3 – October 2012:
- “The Devil’s Hat” by Gary B. Phillips [Science Fiction]
- “All Your World’s a Stage” by Peter Wood [Science Fiction]
- “Croatoan” by James C. Bassett [Science Fiction]
- “We Tried to Save the Brooklyn Dodgers” by Michael Weinstein [Science Fiction]
- “Out with the Crowd” by Michael Haynes [Science Fiction]
- Journal of Unlikely Entomology #3.5 – Hello, World Mini-Issue:
- “Let the Bugs Work Themselves Out” by Luna Lindsey
- “Nikki 2.3” by Brent Knowles
- “The Clockworm” by Karen Heuler
- @Legend of the Five Rings: “Seeds of Decay: the Dragon” by Seth Mason
- Lorelei Signal Oct – Dec 2012:
- “Bingham’s Deep Woods Fairies” by J.C. Conway [Fantasy]
- “Flesh and Bone” by Danielle Gronwold [Science Fiction]
- “Imaginary Enemies” by C.J. Paget [Fantasy]
- “Believing in Luck” by Josie Gowler [Fantasy]
- “Madame Melodia and the Love Machines” by Karen Maric [Science Fiction]
- “Before Midnight When Ten Billion Sleep” by Gary Girod [Science Fiction]
- “Star Rats” by Darrell Albert [Science Fiction]
- “Stow Away” by R. Scott Russell [Science Fiction]
- “Children of the Unicorn Clan” by Anna Sykora [Science Fiction]
- @Phantasmacore: “Boy at a Water’s Edge” by Eric Del Carlo
- Planetary Stories #26 [Space Opera Magazine]
- @Short-Story.me: “The Grim Reaper” by Norman A. Rubin [Fantasy]
- @Short-Story.me: “Of Snakes and Banjos” by David Nilsson [Horror]
- @Short-Story.me: “In The Harsh Moonlight” by Jack Farmer [Science Fiction]
- @Specutopia: “The Death of the World’s Greatest Detective” by James Beamon
- @Specutopia: “Hollow Spaces” by Greg Mellor
- @The Way of the Wizard Anthology: “One-Click Banishment” by Jeremiah Tolbert [Fantasy]
- @Weird Fiction Review: “The Dead Valley” by Ralph Adams Cram [Horror]
- @The WiFiles: “Commande-In-Chief” by Greg Boxer [Science Fiction]
- Wonderlust #9 [Fantasy]
Written – Serialized
- @Paizo: “Proper Villains – Chapter One: The Liar” by Erik Scott de Bie [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews – Chapter 3, Part 2 [Contemporary Fantasy]
Audio
- Cast Macabre #46 – “Synchronicity” by Craig Herbertson [Horror]
- Drabblecast #259 – “The Last of the O-Forms” by James Van Pelt [Science Fiction]
- @Dramapod: “Pygmalion Spectacles” by Stanley Weinbaum [Science Fiction]
- Public Radio International – Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic [Fantasy]
- SFFAudio #181 – “The Beckoning Fair One” by Oliver Onions [Horror]
- @Spider on the Web: A Free Lunch
- StarShipSofa #259 – Stephen Kotowych [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- Beam Me Up! #331 – “Odenforce” and “The Dive – Part 4” [Science Fiction]
- Beam Me Up! #332 – “The Dive – Part 5” and “The Gloriously Cunning Plan” [Science Fiction]
- Beam Me Up! #333 – “The Dive – Part 6” and “In Plain Sight – Episode 12” [Science Fiction]
- Beam Me Up! #334 – “The Dive – Part 7” and “In the Service of the Public” [Science Fiction]
- Classic Tales Podcast #282 – “Carmilla, Part 1 of 4” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu [Horror]
- Cthulhu Podcast #132 – The House on the Borderland, Part 1 by William Hope Hodgson [Horror]
- Cthulhu Podcast #133 – The House on the Borderland, Part 2 by William Hope Hodgson [Horror]
- Cthulhu Podcast #134 – The House on the Borderland, Part 3 by William Hope Hodgson [Horror]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- 2060: On The Run by Robert Culligan [Science Fiction Adventure Novelette]
- On Fallen Wings by Jamie McHenry [YA Fantasy Novel]
- “Proxima” by Regan Wolfrom [Science Fiction Short Story]
- The Usual Werewolves by Adam Bertocci [Paranormal Comedy Novelette]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- The Martian by Allen Glasser and A. Rowley Hilliard [Science Fiction Novelette]
- “Spacewrecked on Venus” by Neil R. Jones [Science Fiction Short Story]
- @Author’s Site:
- Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross [Science Fiction Novel – Multiple formats]
- Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow [Science Fiction Novel – Multiple formats]
Free Audiobooks (at time of listing)
- @Librivox:
- “Beyond Lies the Wub” and “The Skull” by Philip K. Dick [Two Science Fiction Short Stories]
- The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells [Science Fiction Novel]
- Pariah Planet by Murray Leinster [Science Fiction Novella]
Novel Excerpts
- @Tor:Excerpt from Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom [Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Haven 6 by Aubrie Dionne [Science Fiction Romance]
Have suggestions for Free Fiction? Please let me know.
