Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/31/2013

Today the first book of Dalya Moon’s Spiritdell series is available free on Amazon. My hopefully-not-too-creepy affection for Dalya led me to name a character after her in my After The Fires Went Out series.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #122 – May 30, 2013
2. Real Pulp has “The Moon Moth” by Jack Vance
3. SF Signal has a story from Yoon Ha Lee, in case you missed it

Written

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #122 – May 30, 2013: [Fantasy] (also available as eBook)
  • “The Penitent” by M. Bennardo
  • “Dreams of Peace” by Dana Beehr
  • Audio Podcast #105: “Our Dead Selves Lie Like Footsteps in Our Wake” by Jeff Isacksen
• @Real Pulp: “The Moon Moth” by Jack Vance [Science Fiction – from 1961]
• @SF Signal (right here): “The Black Abacus” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Embargo” by W Hunter [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Nitpick” by K. S. O’Neill [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Nature: “A time for peace” by S. R. Algernon [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Paizo: Stargazer by Chris A. Jackson – Chapter Four: A Matter of Commerce [Fantasy]
• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 6: A Prophecy of Life – “The Woman with the Broken Heart” [Epic Fantasy]

Audio

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies Podcast #105 – “Our Dead Selves Lie Like Footsteps in Our Wake” by Jeff Isacksen [Fantasy]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #182 – “All You Need is Lava” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MuchoMangoMayo]
• Escape Pod #398 – “Subversion” by Elisabeth R. Adams [Science Fiction]
• PodCastle #262 – “The Dragonslayer of Merebarton” by K.J. Parker [Fantasy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Blue Skies (Atopia Chronicles) by Matthew Mather [Science Fiction Novelette – Second of Series]
  • Days of Love and Blood by R.S. Carter [Paranormal Post Apocalyptic Novel]
  • The Devil Is a Gentleman (A Niki Slobodian Novel: Book 2) by J.L. Murray [Urban Fantasy Novel – Second of Series]
  • The Dragon Knight Order by Gabriel Vicioso [Fantasy Novella]
  • Evren: Enter the Dragonette by Marian Tee [YA / New Adult Fantasy Novel]
  • House of Fallen Trees by Gina Ranalli [Horror Novel]
  • Sjambak by Jack Vance [Science Fiction Novelette]
  • Spiritdell Book 1: Zan and Austin by Dalya Moon [YA Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #122 – May 30, 2013 [Fantasy Magazine – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]

Excerpts

• @Orbit: Excerpt from Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh [Science Fiction]
• @SF Signal (right here, friends): Excerpt from Blood and Bone: A Novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian C. Esslemont [Fantasy]
• @Tor:
  • Excerpt from Norwegian By Night by Derek B Miller [Speculative Thriller]
  • Excerpt from The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos [Middle Grade Science Fiction]

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