Free SF/F/H Fiction for 10/19/2012

Successful link raids were conducted on both QuasarDragon and Free Speculative Fiction Online. The SF Signal Free Fiction juggernaut can not be stopped.

What’s special about this week’s free fiction?

1. A revisit with the long-lost speculative fiction publication Aeon Speculative Fiction with a few stories from the anthology End of an Aeon
2. Lovecraft eZine’s October issue is a tribute to Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October
3. Clockpunk fans and/or people who wonder what the heck clockpunk is may enjoy Songs for a Machine Age by Heather McDougal

Written

• @365 tomorrows: “A Practical Trip” by Robert White [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Baen eBooks, from End of an Aeon:
  • “Patriot Girls” by Amy Sisson
  • “The True Story of Merganther’s Run” by David D. Levine
  • “Repairs” by T D Edge
  • “Evening in the Land of Dreams” by Mikal Trimm
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #106 – October 18, 2012:
  • “A Song of Blackness” by Nancy Fulda [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
  • “Hold a Candle to The Devil” by Nicole M. Taylor [Fantasy] (also available in EPUB)
• @Daily Science Fiction: “This is the Way the World Begins” by C.L. Holland [Science Fiction Flash]
• Lovecraft eZine #18 – October 2012: (also available in audio)
  
  • “A Counting Game” by Derek Ferreira
  • “Carnacki: The Parliament of Owls” by William Meikle
  • “Twenty to Life in the Lonesome October” by Evan Dicken
  • “The Great and Groovy Game” by Joshua Wanisko
  • “My Least Immemorial Year” by Zach Shephard
  • “The Gotterdammerung Gavotte” by Josh Reynolds
  • “Big D, Little D” by Edward Morris
  • “The Blackbird Whistling, or Just After” by Orrin Grey
• @Nature: “The tell-tale ear” by Alex Shvartsman [Science Fiction]
• @WiFiles: “The Hunt” by John Krissilas

Written – Serialized

• @Paizo: Proper Villains by Erik Scott de Bie – Chapter Three: The Caper [Fantasy]

Audio

• @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Cursed Motives” by Marissa Lingen [Fantasy]
• Journey #49 – “The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury [Science Fiction]
• Lovecraft eZine #18 – October 2012:
  
  • “A Counting Game” by Derek Ferreira
  • “Carnacki: The Parliament of Owls” by William Meikle
  • “Twenty to Life in the Lonesome October” by Evan Dicken
  • “The Great and Groovy Game” by Joshua Wanisko
  • “My Least Immemorial Year” by Zach Shephard
  • “The Gotterdammerung Gavotte” by Josh Reynolds
  • “Big D, Little D” by Edward Morris
  • “The Blackbird Whistling, or Just After” by Orrin Grey

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Arms of the Storm by M Todd Gallowglas [Dark Fantasy Novel – Third of Series]
• @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
  • “A Song of Blackness” by Nancy Fulda [Fantasy Short Story]
  • “Hold a Candle to The Devil” by Nicole M. Taylor [Fantasy Short Story]
• @Project Gutenberg:
  • “The Butterfly Kiss” by Arthur Dekker Savage [Science Fiction Short Story – from Orbit, 1953]
  • “The Metal Moon” by Everett C. Smith and R.F. Starzl [Science Fiction Short Story – from Wonder Stories, 1932]
• @Smashwords:
  • “Dead End Bridge” by Will Weisser [Science Fiction Short Story]
  • Ice Will Reveal by Julia Dvorin [Fantasy Novel]
  • Songs for a Machine Age by Heather McDougal [Clockpunk Novel]

Novel Excerpts

• @Gollancz: Extract from Shaman of Stonewylde by Kit Berry [Dark Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: Excerpt from The Dragon’s Shadow by Jonathan Moeller [Epic Fantasy]

 

Have suggestions for Free Fiction? Please let me know.