Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/22/2013

So in honor of creeping out a slim majority of Keycon participants, I’ve decided to post the new and improved (but still slightly creepy) short story, “Gnome on Girl on Gnome: A Love Story” in two parts.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Lightspeed has a science fiction story from M. Bennardo
2. If you haven’t started yet, it’s now time to get a readin’: the serialization of The Gravity of the Affair, by Michael J. Martinez
3. A new place for radio theater: Sci-Fi Radio Theater kicks off with Hyper Nocturnal, Episode 1

Written

• @The Colored Lens: “Grandma’s Shoes” by Jamie Lackey [Fantasy]
• @Lightspeed:
  • “Water Finds Its Level” by M. Bennardo [Science Fiction]
  • “The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue” by Holly Black [Fantasy]
• @Tor: “Skin Like Porcelain Death” by Daniel Jose Older [Dark Fantasy]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Junk Planet” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Troll (A Tale Told Collectively)” by Marissa Lingen [Fantasy Flash]
• @Enchanted Conversation: “The Three Sisters and the Dragon of the North” by Laura Beasley [Fairy Tale Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark: “Crystal Balls” by Marian Brooks [Horror Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @HiLoBrow: The Comet by W.E.B. Du Bois – Part 1 of 5 [Science Fiction – from 1920]
• @Strange Horizons: Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars by Anaea Lay – Part 2 of 2 [Science Fiction]
• @Author’s Site: “Gnome on Girl on Gnome: A Love Story” by Regan Wolfrom – Part 1 of 2 [Contemporary Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: The Gravity of the Affair by Michael J. Martinez – Part III [Historical Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 6: A Prophecy of Life – “Death’s List” [Epic Fantasy]

Audio

• @19 Nocturne Boulevard: “Scream Queen” by Julie Hoverson [Horror]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #173 – “Electric Spoon” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MuchoMangoMayo]
• @The Drama Pod: “The Big Pill” by Raymond Z Gallund [Science Fiction]
• @Lightspeed: “The Aarne-Thompson Classification Revue” by Holly Black [Fantasy]
• PodCastle #261 – “Oracle Gretel” by Julia Rios [Fantasy]
• Protecting Project Pulp #45 – “The Devil’s Crypt” by E. Hoffmann Price [Lovecraftian]
• StarShipSofa #290 – “Mitigation” by Tobias Buckell & Karl Schroeder [Science Fiction]

Audio – Serialized

• @Sci-Fi Radio Theater: Hyper Nocturnal by Charles Davis – Episode 1 [Science Fiction / Horror]
• @Strange Horizons: Hiding on the Red Sands of Mars by Anaea Lay – Part 2 of 2 [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • “2020: Episode 1” by Paul Moxham [Post-Apocalyptic Short Story – First of Series]
  • Bad Radio (The Emergent Earth) by Michael Langlois [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Elseerian (The Chronicles of Lumineia #1) by Ben Hale [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • “Fearless” by Christine Rains [Paranormal Fantasy Short Story]
  • Legend of the White Dragon: Legends by Melanie Nilles [Sword & Sorcery Novel – First of Series]
  • Origins by Mark Henrikson [Alternate History Novel]
  • Rivals by David Wellington [Superhero Novel]
• @Project Gutenberg:
  • English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [Fairy Tale Anthology – from 1890]
  • Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940, edited by Ray Bradbury [Science Fiction Fanzine – from 1940]
  • Time Crime by H. Beam Piper [Science Fiction Novelette – from 1955]

Free Audiobooks

• @Audible: “Cold Colors” by Neil Gaiman [Speculative Short Story]
• @LibriVox:
  • Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940, edited by Ray Bradbury [Science Fiction Fanzine – from 1940]
  • Time Crime by H. Beam Piper [Science Fiction Novelette – from 1955]

Excerpts

• @A.V. Club: Excerpt from Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson [YA Post-Apocalyptic]
• @Gollancz: Video Excerpt from NOS4R2 by Joe Hill [Horror]
• @Weird Fiction Review: Excerpt from Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas [Lovecraftian]