Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 4/24/2013
Another successful raid on Dave Tackett’s QuasarPantry.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Lightspeed has some Hugh Howey
- Phantasmacore is back with more!
- Tor has some Prudence Shen
Written
- @The Colored Lens: “Those Who Do Not Reap” by Kris Millering [Fantasy]<
- @Legend of the Five Rings: “Coils of Madness Focus” by Shawn Carman [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed:
- “Deep Blood Kettle” by Hugh Howey [Science Fiction] (also available in audio)
- “Dinner in Audoghast” by Bruce Sterling [Fantasy]
- @Phantasmacore:
- “Alistair’s Magnets” by Mathew Allan Garcia [Fantasy]
- “Dog’s Honest Island” by Michael Chaney [Speculative Fiction]
- “The Wizard” by Robin Wyatt Dunn [Fantasy]
- @Tor: “Do Not Touch” by Prudence Shen [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “Moments” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “The Loaner” by Dave Rigby [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Legerdemain” by Gabriel Murray [Fantasy Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Wish Fulfilment” by Georgina Allen [Fantasy Flash]
- @Quantum Muse: “Starry Night” by Roi Czechvala [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Leaf and Bird: Wayfarers: [Cyberpunk]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 5: The Land of No Respect: [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- @Clarkesworld: “Guest of Honor” by Robert Reed [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Deep Blood Kettle” by Hugh Howey [Science Fiction]
- PodCastle #257 – “The Queen And The Cambion” by Richard Bowes [Fantasy]
Audio – Serialized
- StarShipSofa #286 – David Mercurio Rivera – Part 1 [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Cyberdrome by Joseph Rhea and David Rhea [High Tech Science Fiction Novel]
- Dangerous Talents by Frankie Robertson [Epic Fantasy Romance Novel]
- Island of Fog (Book 1) by Keith Robinson [YA Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Quexistence: The Quest for the Meaning of Existence: Time Dreams by Tom Stafford [Science Fiction Novella]
- Stars Rain Down (Biotech Legacy) by Chris J. Randolph [Space Opera Novel]
- Teleport This (Small Universe) by Christopher M. Daniels [Science Fiction Adventure Comedy Novel]
- “Transfection” by David Gaughran [Science Fiction Short Story]
- The Written (Emaneska Series) by Ben Galley [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- @Project Gutenberg: The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany [Fantasy Novel – from 1905] (also available as audiobook)
Free Audiobooks
- @LibriVox: The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany [Fantasy Novel – from 1905]
Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from Deep Space by Ian Douglas [Science Fiction]
- @Weird Fiction Review: Excerpt from Rupetta by Nike Sulway – The Miracle of Consciousness [Dark Fantasy]
I liked Stars Rain Down.
Amazing cover on The Written, too bad it’s self-published. Nothing irrational about it, but unless its from an author I know and like, I tend to stay away from books that never went through an editor.
Even if it’s free?
Indeed, not even for free. I have wasted too much time on trying self-published authors, of which only a handful produce good stuff (like Howey). This made me wary of self-published books, even for free.
Ditto.