Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 1/11/2013
(some links stolen from QuasarDragon — what else is new?)
I’m taking it on faith that you’ve all completed your homework from earlier this week. So without further ado…
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #112
- What may be the saddest story of all time: “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
- George R. R. Martin gives us a taste of The Winds of Winter. (to cave-dwellers: he’s like an important fantasy guy with a much-anticipated book coming out soon)
Written
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #112 – January 10, 2013: (also available as a free ebook)
- “Death Sent” by Christian K. Martinez [Fantasy]
- “The Stone Oaks” by Stephen Case [Fantasy]
- @Nightmare: “Need” by Lisa Tuttle [Horror] (also available in audio)
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Librarian” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
- @365 tomorrows: “This Is What It’s All About” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Fool’s Gold” by Melissa Mead [Fairy Tale Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Final Corrections, Pittsburgh Times-Dispatch“ by M. Bennardo [Apocalypse]
- @Every Day Fiction: “The Passing of Grandmother’s Quilt” by Cat Rambo [Fantasy Flash]
- @Nature: “Pest Control” by John Frizell [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Yesteryear: “Wrong Number” by Chris Sharp [Fantasy Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Paizo: In Red Rune Canyon by Richard Lee Byers – Chapter One: A Difference of Opinion [Fantasy]
Audio
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “The Scorn of the Peregrinator” by John E.O. Stevens [Fantasy]
- @The Drama Pod: “Last Days of the Kelly Gang” by David D. Levine [Science Fiction]
- @Nightmare: “Need” by Lisa Tuttle [Horror]
- @SFFAudio: “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield [Fantasy]
- SFFAudio #194 – “Of Withered Apples” by Philip K. Dick [Fantasy]
- Tales of Old Historical Fiction #74 – “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs [Horror]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar [Horror Novel]
- Aura by Rebecca Lynn Talley [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- The Death Series, Books 1-3: Death Whispers, Death Speaks and Death Inception by Tamara Rose Blodgett [Dark Fantasy Series]
- Desert Angels by George P. Saunders [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Dying To Forget (The Station) by Trish Marie Dawson [YA Fantasy Novel]
- The Fall (The Rift Book I) by Robert J. Duperre [Horror Novel – First of Series]
- Falling (Girl With Broken Wings) by J Bennett [Fantasy Novel]
- The Hand of Andulain (The Tapestry Saga) by Aaron Mahnke [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- The Hand of Fate (Starstone) by Veronica Merlin [YA Epic Fantasy Novel]
- The Hordes of Shashka (The Last Age) by Kevin Middleton [Epic Fantasy Novel – Second of Series]
- Last Regress by Rachael J. Thorne [Fantasy Novel]
- Loud, Disorderly & Boisterous by Adam M. Johnson [Historical Fantasy Novel]
- Parsons Green by Fiona Bagley [YA Horror Novel]
- “Problems With a Girl & a Unicorn” by Nick Earls [Fantasy Short Story]
- The Somnibus: Book I – Finding the Mark by Craig McGray [Horror Novella – First of Series]
- “This Dark Magic” by Chryse Wymer [Urban Fantasy Short Story]
- “Walker” by Steven Ramirez [Horror Short Story]
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies #112 – January 10, 2013 [Fantasy Magazine – MOBI, EPUB, PDF]
Free Audiobooks
- @Librivox: Islands of Space by John W. Campbell [Science Fiction Novel – from 1957]
Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from Hellhole: Awakening by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert – Chapters 1, 2 & 3 [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: Excerpt from The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from The Trouble With Fate by Leigh Evans – Prologue and Chapter One [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Excerpt from The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin [Fantasy]