Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/1/2013
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Tor has “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen
- Matthew Sanborn Smith‘s Beware the Hairy Mango is back with “The Slow and the Furious”
- PodCastle has Cory Skerry‘s “My Dignity in Scars”
- Another Cast of Characters excerpt from my post-apocalyptic novel (and ongoing dead horse), After The Fires Went Out: Coyote
Written
- @Tor: “The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown” by Jane Yolen [Gaslamp Fantasy]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Judgement Day” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Coin Op” by David Steffen [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Radaba, Daughter of Rapunzel” by Marie Bacigalupo [Fantasy Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Mr. Yamamoto’s Fish Food” by Adam Walker [Horror Flash]
Audio
- Beware the Hairy Mango #148 – “The Slow and the Furious” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Mangopunk]
- PodCastle #249 – “My Dignity in Scars” by Cory Skerry [Fantasy]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Cloak by James Gough [YA Fantasy Novel]
- Origin by J.A. Konrath [Horror Adventure Novel]
- The Taken: Celestial Blues by Vicki Pettersson [Urban Fantasy Novel – First Book of Series]
- @Project Gutenberg: A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1934]
Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from Bloodfire Quest: The Dark Legacy of Shannara by Terry Brooks [Epic Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from The Wilful Eye by Isobelle Carmody [Re-imagined Fairy Tales]
- @Author’s Site: An Excerpt from After The Fires Went Out: Coyote by Regan Wolfrom – Cast of Characters: Kayla [Post-Apocalyptic]
I’m loving Origin. I found it on my Kindle and didn’t remember buying it. I then did some investigating and realized I found a link to it here, my favorite sci-fi blog, for free. Thanks!