Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/30/2013
Sad news: Jack Vance has passed away. Tor has an excerpt from a novel by Dan Simmons that is based on Vance’s Dying Earth series. I’ve also added an eBook from Project Gutenberg: Sjambak by Jack Vance.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Interfictions has a story from Kiini Ibura Salaam
- SciFi Ideas has their monthly story, this time by Ruth de Haas
- Tor has another story from George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe, by Paul Cornell
Written
- @Interfictions: “The Taming” by Kiini Ibura Salaam [Speculative Fiction]
- @SciFi Ideas: “Second Skin” by Ruth de Haas [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: “The Elephant in the Room” by Paul Cornell [Superhero]
- @World SF Blog: “Sanditon” by Helen Marshall [Horror]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “The Man With No Name” by Desmond Hussey [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “A Little Sleep” by Melissa Mead [Twisted Fairy Tale Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Resetting Alexandra” by Cory Cone [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle – Chapter 11 [Science Fiction – from 1923]
- @Author’s Site: Remnants by Daniel Powell – Chapter Nine: Inside the Mouth of the Lion [Apocalyptic]
Audio
- Beware the Hairy Mango #181 – “Bone Wet” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MuchoMangoMayo]
- StarShipSofa #291 – “The Night Whiskey” by Jeffrey Ford [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- The Backworlds by M. Pax [Space Opera Novel]
- City of Blaze (The Fireblade Array) by H.O. Charles [Sword & Sorcery Novel – First of Series]
- Dark Moonlighting by Scott Haworth [Vampire Comedy Novel]
- Darkin: A Journey East (The Darkin Saga) by Joseph Turkot [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Defender: The Sanctuary Series, Volume One by Robert J. Crane [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Escape of Princess Madeline by Kirstin Pulioff [Middle Grade / YA Fantasy Novel]
- Forbidden The Stars (The Interstellar Age Book 1) by Valmore Daniels [Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- Forsaken – A Novel of Art, Evil, and Insanity by Andrew Van Wey [Horror Novel]
- I’m Not Dead: The Journals of Charles Dudley Vol.1 by Artie Cabrera [Apocalyptic Thriller Novel – First of Series]
- Memoria: A Corporation of Lies by Alex Bobl [Technothriller Novel]
- @Project Gutenberg: Sjambak by Jack Vance [Science Fiction Novelette – from 1953]
Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderoz by Dan Simmons [Vancean Fantasy]
And For Writers: Speculative Fiction Writing Wroundup
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