Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/5/2013
A splendiferous pile of free fiction, thanks in part to the indefatigable Dave Tackett and his unbeatable QuasarDragon.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Electric Spec #8.1 – February 28, 2013
- Ideomancer #12.1
- Mirror Dance Spring 2013
- SQ Mag #7 – 1st March 2013
- Subterranean Press Spring 2013
- A. Lee Martinez offers up a short story: “Ghost Stories”
Written
- @Aurora Wolf: “The Amulet” by Heidi Wainer [Fantasy]
- @Cosmos: “Any Face You Like” by Gregg Jansen [Science Fiction]
- Electric Spec #8.1 – February 28, 2013:
- “Empathy Rocks” by Mark Rigney [Science Fiction]
- “Strange Notes from Underground” by Jennifer Crow [Horror]
- “The Count is the Kingdom” by Rebecca Schwarz [Fantasy]
- “Heart of a Magpie” by Kathryn Yelinek [Horror]
- “The Secret Life of Princes” by David Barber [Science Fiction]
- Ideomancer #12.1:
- “Swan-Brother” by Gabriel Murray [Fantasy]
- “Rubbernecking” by Leah Thomas [Fantasy]
- “The Horse Latitudes” by Sunny Moraine [Fantasy]
- @Legend of the Five Rings: “City of Smoke & Ash” by Shawn Carman & Robert Denton [Fantasy]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “The Writings of Brigham Worthing” by Alexis A. Hunter [Angelology]
- Mirror Dance Spring 2013: [Fantasy]
- “Victoriana” by Sarah L. Byrne
- “The Remarkable Account of Nain’s Revolution” by Chloe Ackerman
- “The Quest for the Improbable” by Sandi Leibowitz
- “Tara, Who Could Turn Into a Dragon” by C. E. Hyun
- “And They Shall Never Sever” by Brooke Wonders [Fantasy
- “The Puppeteer” by Cordelia Harrison [Fantasy]
- SQ Mag #7 – 1st March 2013:
- “Unbound” by Dan Hankner [Science Fiction]
- “Digital Reflections” by Kevin Rainak [Science Fiction]
- “A Minor System” by W. B. Stickel [Horror]
- “Surface Stars” by Hansen Hovell Holladay [Science Fiction]
- “Eyes of the Child” by Robert Harkess [Paranormal Fantasy]
- “My Trip to the Circus” by Jason Lairamore [Science Fiction]
- Subterranean Press Spring 2013:
- “The Seafarer” by Tobias S. Buckell [Fantasy]
- “Painted Birds and Shivered Bones” by Kat Howard [Fantasy]
- “A Stranger Comes to Kalimpura” by Jay Lake [Fantasy]
- “The Indelible Dark” by William Browning Spencer [Science Fiction]
- “The Prayer of Ninety Cats” by Caitlín R. Kiernan [Fantasy]
- “The Syndrome” by Brian Francis Slattery [Undead]
- @The WiFiles: “Memory, Hunger” by Valerie Z Lewis [Horror]
- @Author’s Site: “Ghost Stories” by A. Lee Martinez [Fantasy]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Darwin” by Alex Bauer
- “A Positive Alien Encounter” by J.D. Rice
- “Marauder” by Jae Miles
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Living With Trees” by Geetanjali Dighe [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction:
- “Nixon and the Aliens” by Peter Wood [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Heads Up!” by Fraser Sherman [Surreal /Humor Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Twenty Mile Chances” by A.W. Mason [Horror Flash]
- @Kasma SF: “Three Roads to Jerusalem” by Anatoly Belilovsky [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Black Gate: The Sealord’s Successor by Aaron Bradford Starr – Part I [Fantasy]
- @SQ Mag: Intangible by A.A. Garrison: [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews – Chapter Eleven Part 1 [Contemporary Fantasy]
Audio
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: “Duplicity”, inspired by O. Henry [Science Fiction]
- Cast of Wonders #69 – “Cosmetic Procedures” by Desmond Warzel [YA Science Fiction]
- Every Day Fiction Podcast #107 – “There Are Those Who Have the Stars” by John Eric Vona [Science Fiction]
- Radio Drama Revival #320 – The Minister of Chance Visits Paludin Fields [Fantasy]
- Toasted Cake #61 – “This Is Your Problem, Right Here” by David Steffen [Fantasy]
Audio – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: THE MVP Episode #20 by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Bob Moore: No Hero by Tom Andry [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Déjà Vu (The Saskia Brandt Series Book One) by Ian Hocking [Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- Dominant Species Volume One — Natural Selection by David Coy [Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- Take the All-Mart! (Reprobates of the Wasteland #1) by J.I. Greco [Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- Time Traders by Andre Norton [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Who is Audrey Wickersham? by Sara Shrieves [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
- Wilde’s Fire (Darkness Falls) by Krystal Wade [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- @Islam and Science Fiction: A Mosque Among the Stars, Edited by Ahmad A. Khan and Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad [Science Fiction Anthology – PDF]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1935]
- The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novel – from 1935]
Free Audiobooks
- @LibriVox: The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs [Science Fantasy Novel]