Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/28/2013
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Tor presents an original story from Harry Turtledove
- Blog Fiction site Station 151 has returned to our listings with Book II, starting with Goodbye to the Village
- 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]
- Unknown Transmission #13 – Ground Control (ongoing): [Science Fiction]
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]
Mark Tufo’s Zombie Fallout is free on kindle right now.