Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 4/11/2013

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Regan Wolfrom in Free Fiction // 0 Comments

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

It’s Alternate Earth Day at the Free Fiction Widget Factory and Home for Senile Exclamation Points!

Cosmos has some Alt Earth by Nick Mamatas!
Tor has some Alt Earth by Priya Sharma!
Joe Abercrombie is releasing the Graphic Novel of The First Law in installments starting with Chapter 1 – secondary world can be Alt Earth, right?
!! (some of my exclamation points tend to wander off… !)

Written

@Cosmos: “Bob and Ernie Fistfight in Heaven” by Nick Mamatas [Alternate Earth]
@Nightmare: “Bonfires” by Marc Laidlaw [Horror] (also available in audio)
@Tor: “Rag and Bone” by Priya Sharma [Alternate Earth]

Written – Flash

@365 Tomorrows: “Built to Last” by Rob Sharp [Science Fiction Flash]
@Daily Science Fiction: “Rocket Dragons” by Larry Kincheloe [Science Fiction Flash]
@Every Day Fiction: “And Though Worms Destroy” by Sarah L. Byrne [Fantasy Flash]
@Flashes in the Dark: “The World We Live In” by J.D. Rice [Horror Flash]
@Nature: “Sonic estate” by Henry Gee [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Serialized

@HiLobrow: The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle – Chapter 4 [Science Fiction – from 1923]
@Paizo: The Irregulars by Neal F. Litherland – Chapter Two: Scouting Party [Fantasy]
@Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews – Chapter Twelve Part 1-3 [Contemporary Fantasy]

Audio

@Nightmare: “Bonfires” by Marc Laidlaw [Horror]
PodCastle #255 – “The Medicine Woman of Talking Rock” by Pamela Rentz [Fantasy]

Audio – Serialized

@19 Nocturne Boulevard: Dick Dynamo the Fifth Dimensional Man! – Episode #4 – el pollo loco, part 2 of 2 [Science Fiction Comedy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

@AE: AE Micro 2013 [Science Fiction Flash Anthology – PDF]
@Amazon:
- Blood and Steel (The Cor Chronicles) by Martin Parece [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Collapse (New America-Book One) by Richard Stephenson [Dystopian Novel – First of Series]
- Devil’s Lair by David Wisehart [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Eville by Holand Peterson [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- The King of Blades by Ken Brosky [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Mad Science Institute by Sechin Tower [Science Fiction Novel]
- “Past Jumper” (Future Jumper Series #1) by Jamie Heppner [Time Travel Short Story – First of Series]
- Threads That Bind (The Havoc Chronicles) by Brant Williams [YA Fantasy Novel]
- Toby Streams the Universe by Maya Lassiter [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- Transcender: First-Timer (Transcender Trilogy) by Vicky Savage [YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Wearing the Cape by Marion G. Harmon [Superhero Novel]

Excerpts

@Tor:
- Excerpt from Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig [Contemporary Dark Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Monument 14: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne [YA Science Fiction]

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