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?

1. Interfictions has a story from Kiini Ibura Salaam
2. SciFi Ideas has their monthly story, this time by Ruth de Haas
3. 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]

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