Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/28/2013

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Tor presents an original story from Harry Turtledove
2. Blog Fiction site Station 151 has returned to our listings with Book II, starting with Goodbye to the Village
3. The related blog fiction, Unknown Transmission, is back as well, with Chapter 13: Ground Control

Written

• @Nightmare: “No Breather in the World But Thee” by Jeff VanderMeer [Horror] (also available in audio)
• @Tor: “Running of the Bulls” by Harry Turtledove [Fantasy]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Police Interrogation” by Townsend Wright [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Man and the River” by Therese Pieczynski [Magic Realism Flash]
• @Nature: “Sticky” by George Zebrowski [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Quantum Muse: “The Collider” by Harris Tobias [Science Fantasy Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Paizo: Bastard, Sword by Tim Pratt – Chapter Four: Illusions of Ice [Fantasy]
• Station 151 #2.1 – Goodbye to the Village (ongoing): [Science Fiction]
  • “Pinioned”
  • “Bolshoi Blonde”
  • “Brig”
  • “Lucid In The Sky With Diamonds”
  • “Hard Pressed”
• Unknown Transmission #13 – Ground Control (ongoing): [Science Fiction]
  • “In the Company of False Gods”
  • “Tactical Advantages”
  • “Back from the Dead”

Audio

• @Ministry of Peculiar Occurences: Tales from the Archives, Volume 2 – “Lost Waters” by Kreg Steppe [Steampunk]
• @Nightmare: “No Breather in the World But Thee” by Jeff VanderMeer [Horror]
• PodCastle #253 – “Virtue’s Ghosts” by Amanda M. Olson [Fantasy]
• StarShipSofa #282 – Robert Reed [Science Fiction]

Audio – Serialized

• @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Dick Dynamo the Fifth Dimensional Man! – Episode 3 – The Unfortunate Heir [Science Fiction Comedy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • 80AD The Jewel of Asgard (Book 1) by Aiki Flinthart [Time Travel Adventure Novel]
  • All the Paths of Shadow by Frank Tuttle [YA Epic Fantasy]
  • The Alloy of Law: Prologue – Chapter 6: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson [Fantasy Novel Excerpt]
  • Brightside by Mark Tullius [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
  • Cat’s Paw by L. A. Taylor [Fantasy Novel]
  • Desert Angels by George P. Saunders [Science Fantasy Adventure Novel
  • Dream War by Stephen Prosapio [High Tech Science Fiction Novel]
  • High Moor by Graeme Reynolds [Horror Novel]
  • Shining in Crimson: Empire of Blood – Book One by Robert S. Wilson [Dystopian Vampire Novel – First of Series]
  • “The Viscount and the Witch” (The Riyria Chronicles) by Michael J. Sullivan [Fantasy Short Story]
  • Voidhawk by Jason Halstead [Science Fantasy Adventure Novel]
  • “Wilted” (A Witching Pen Novellas Prequel) by Dianna Hardy [YA Paranormal Fantasy Short Story – Prequel to Series]
• @Project Gutenberg: Jewels of Gwahlur by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novel – from 1935] (also available as audiobook from LibriVox)

Free Audiobooks

• @LibriVox: Jewels of Gwahlur by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novel – from 1935]

Excerpts

• @Gollancz: Extract from Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins – Chapter Four [Alternate History / Fantasy]
• @Tor: Excerpt from Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich [Science Fiction]