Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 2/21/2013
Apparently I haven’t succeeded in scaring away Dave Tackett and his infernal QuasarDragon. Until I do (and I have great hopes for my jock-strap catapult), I will gladly steal his links.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Melissa Mead has another Twisted Fairy Tale up at Daily Science Fiction
- Cthulhu Chick has put together The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft as a free eBook
- Neil Gaiman shows you some stories and needs your help (assuming you have some kind of talent in visual arts)
Written
- @Nightmare: “Cry Room” by Ted Kosmatka [Horror]
- @Tor: “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu [Fantasy]
- @World SF Blog: “Eagle Feathers” by Joyce Chng [Fantasy]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Protect The Weak” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “A Hairy Predicament” by Melissa Mead [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “The Postman is a Creep” by Nathan Good [Horror Flash]
- @Nature: “A gift of pain” by V. G. Campen [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Yesteryear: “The Field of Endallah” by Josh Susie [Fantasy Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Legend of the Five Rings: Torn Asunder by Seth Mason – Part 3 [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews: [Contemporary Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Jaydium by Deborah J. Ross, writing as Deborah Wheeler – Chapter 33 [Fantasy]
Audio
- PodCastle #148 – “Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot” by Claire Humphrey [Fantasy]
- StarShipSofa #277 – David D Levine [Science Fiction]
- Tales of Old #79 – “Memory is Translucent” by Adele Gardner [Horror]
Audio – Serialized
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Afterlives – #3.2 – Laid to Rest / Different Directions [Fantasy]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Dark Halo by Christopher Kokoski [Horror Novel]
- Fated: Torn Apart by History, Bound for Eternity by Carolyn McCray [Historical Fantasy Novel]
- Freezing Point by Karen Dionne [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Liahona (City of the Saints) by D.J. Butler [Steampunk Novella]
- The Man in the Box by Andrew Toy [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- Ocean Kills (Ocean Breeze) by Jade Hart [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- One Nation Under Blood: The Sowing by Tarrin P. Lupo [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Realms Unreel by Audrey Auden [Cyberpunk Novel]
- Remnants of Life: Legends of Darkness by Georgia L. Jones [Fantasy Novel]
- Shattered Skies: Beginning’s End by Heather Linn [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- The Sorcerer’s Ascension (The Sorcerer’s Path) by Brock Deskins [Epic Fantasy Novel – First Book of Series]
- Sub-Human (Book 1) (Post-Human Prequel) by David Simpson [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- “Supper: The Horror Short Story You’ve Been Craving” by Carolyn McCray [Horror Short Story]
- Transcender: First-Timer (Transcender Trilogy) by Vicky Savage [YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Unseen (a parapsychology mystery) by Alexandra Sokoloff [Horror / Mystery Novel]
- @Cthulhu Chick: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft [Horror Collection – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]
- @Project Gutenberg: “The Unwilling Professor” by Arthur Porges [Science Fiction Short Story – from 1954]
Excerpts
- @Tor:
- Excerpt from The Matrix by Jo Bannister [Science Fiction]
- Excerpt from The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville [Alternate History]
- Excerpt from The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar [YA Fantasy]
Other
- @Blackberry: A Calendar of Tales by Neil Gaiman [Stories in need of crowdsourced illustration – PDF]