Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 12/11/2012
So coming down from my five-day birthday celebration, which isn’t yet an official holiday in Canada, The United States, or even North Korea, I’ve stolen links from Dave Tackett and you know I’m going to blame it on the hangover…
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Paul McAuley has some new short stories set in the same universe. Two today, more to come…
- Matt Phillips has a science fiction novel that’s a little… strange: The Truth about Sharks and Pigeons
- Lavie Tidhar is handing us his novelette, Strigoi, for free! Like, completely free! Grab it before he realizes his grave mistake.
Written
- @365 tomorrows: “Adaptation” by Bob Newbell [Science Fiction Flash]
- Apex Magazine #43 – December 2012:
- “Blood from Stone” by Alethea Kontis [Dark Fantasy]
- “Labyrinth” by Mari Ness [Dark Fantasy]
- “Relic” by Jeffrey Ford [Weird]
- @Black Gate: “The Trade” by Mark Rigney [Fantasy]
- @Buzzy Mag: “Forgotten Gifts” by Andrew Jack [Urban Fantasy]
- @Cosmos: “[term UNTRANSLATABLE]“ by Robert Hood [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “MiracleMech” by Tim Deans [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Live-Tweeting the Apocalypse” by Ian Creasey [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Under a Sky of Knives” by Michelle Muenzler [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “A Last Resort” by Phil Temples [Science Fiction]
- @Every Day Fiction: “The Unwilling Trophy Wife” by Chad Stroup [Horror Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “The Red Sno-Cones Are Not For Sale” by Emily C. Skaftun [Horror Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Secrets” by Jim Harrington [Horror Flash]
- @FlashPulp: “Joe Monk, Emperor of Space: The Fruits of Peace” [Science Fiction Pulp Flash] (also available in audio)
- @Interstellar Fiction: “Gobblefunk” by Thomas Lambert [Science Fiction]
- Kazka Press #2.4 – December 2012:
- “The Seven-Faced Bird” by William Cheshire [Fantasy Flash]
- “Eyes Like Dark Chocolate” by Stephen Gordon [Fantasy Flash]
- “Jolly and Old” by William R. D. Wood [Fantasy Flash]
- @Nature: “Time and again” by Moshe Sipper [Science Fiction]
- @New Scientist: “Too good to be true” by Jouni Sarkijarvi [Science Fiction Flash]
- @New Scientist: “Go D” by Michael Rolfe [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Shadow Feed: “Single Bullet Theory” by Chelsea Polk [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: “The Finite Canvas” by Brit Mandelo [Science Fiction]
- @Weirdyear: “Remembering” by Susan Dale [Weird Flash]
- @The WiFiles: “A Funeral in Jerusalem” by Mark L. Glosser [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Barbara Allen And Sweet Billie” by Paul McAuley [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Ghost Of The Holloway” by Paul McAuley [Science Fiction]
Written – Serialized
- @Legend of the Five Rings: Scions of the Colonies by Shawn Carman – Part 1 [Fantasy]
- @Paizo: Thieves Vinegar by Kevin Andrew Murphy – Chapter One: The Old Quay [Fantasy]
- @Strange Horizons: “America Thief” by Alter S. Reiss – Part 2 of 2 [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Jaydium by Deborah J. Ross writing as Deborah Wheeler – Chapter 23 [ Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Trustby David Moody: [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
Audio
- Drabblecast #265 – “Pop Quiz” by Curtis James McConnell [Science Fiction]
- Escape Pod #373 – “Chandra’s Game” by Samantha Henderson [Science Fiction]
- @FlashPulp: “Joe Monk, Emperor of Space: The Fruits of Peace” [Science Fiction Pulp Flash]
- PodCastle #237 – “Crossroads” by Laura Anne Gilman [Fantasy]
- Pseudopod #311 – Flash On The Borderlands XIV: Resistance! [Horror Flash]
- Radio Drama Revival #308 – Marley’s Ghost Rattles His Chains [Holiday Ghost Story]
- @SFFAudio: “Of Withered Apples” by Philip K. Dick [Fantasy]
- Tales To Terrify #48 – Cat Rambo and Horror 101 [Horror]
- Toasted Cake #50 – “The Poinsettia” by L. Lambert Lawson [Weird]
Audio – Serialized
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Afterlives #1.4 – Otherlives [Fantasy]
- Cast of Wonders #63 – “The Gloaming – Part 1” by M E Garber [YA Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “THE MVP Episode #9” by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Broken Aro (The Broken Ones) by Jen Wylie [YA Epic Fantasy Novel – Book One of Series]
- Dark and Darker: A Collection Of Stories by Ryne Douglas Pearson [Horror Collection]
- The Darkness Between by Stephen Brennan [Horror Novelette]
- King’s Blood: Vampire Revealed (Part 1) by P.J. Day [Contemporary Fantasy Novella – First of Series]
- Knockdown: A Thriller by Emerson Doering [Science Fiction Thriller Novel]
- MuTerra by R. K. Sidler [Science Fiction Novel]
- The Truth about Sharks and Pigeons by Matt Phillips [Humorous Science Fiction Novel]
- Windigo Soul by Robert Brumm [Science Fiction Novel]
- Wolf Dawn by Susan Cartwright [Science Fiction Thriller Novel]
- Dark Recess Press #13 [Horror Magazine – Final Issue]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- “The Hanging Stranger” by Philip K. Dick [Science Fiction Short Story – from 1953]
- “The Red Dust” by Murray Leinster [Science Fiction Short Story – from 1927]
- @Smashwords:
- Anticipations by Isabelle Arocho [Urban Fantasy Novella]
- Thursday Night Game by David Haywood Young [Contemporary Fantasy Novelette]
- @Author’s Site: Strigoi by Lavie Tidhar [Science Fiction Novelette – MOBI, EPUB, PDF, LIT]
Free Audiobooks
- @LibriVox:
- Tanks by Murray Leinster [Science Fiction Novella – from 1930]
Novel Excerpts
- @Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Extract from The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Imager’s Battalion by L. E. Modesitt Jr. – Chapter 1 [Fantasy]
