Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/3/2013

Thanks to Dave Tackett and his QuasarDragon for the links and the half-eaten bologna sandwich.

Also, a reminder for those of you who still haven’t noticed: it’s MuchoMangoMayo, which I believe is the Ancient Mayan Fertility Festival.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #120 – May 02, 2013
2. Clarkesworld #80 – May 2013
3. Indian SF #3 – May / June 2013

Written

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #120 – May 02, 2013: [Fantasy] (also available as eBook)
  • “The Clockwork Trollop” by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald
  • “The Drowned Man” by Laura E. Price
• Clarkesworld #80 – May 2013:
  • “Soulcatcher” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
  • “Tachy Psyche” by Andy Dudak [Contemporary Fantasy]
  • “(R + D) /I = M” by E. Catherine Tobler [Science Fiction]
  • Reprints:
    • “The Banquet of the Lords of Night” by Liz Williams
    • “From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled . . .” by Michael Swanwick
• @Electric Velocipede: “The Entomologist’s Three Ballgowns” by Brooke Wonders [Speculative Fiction]
• Indian SF #3 – May / June 2013:
  • “Five Ways to Fall In Love on Planet Porcelain” by Cat Rambo [Fantasy]
  • “Bethany’s Bliss” by H. J. Harding [Dark Fantasy]
  • “Pawn” by Timons Esaias [Science Fiction]
  • Flash: “Regenesis” by Cynthia Ward [Science Fiction Flash]
    

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “When the War is Over” by Desmond Hussey [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “The Lady Electric” by Gary B. Phillips [Science Fantasy Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “A Map of Unknown Places” by Don Raymond [Surreal Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark: “Mother” by Tomboy Mariski [Horror Flash]
• @Indian SF: “Regenesis” by Cynthia Ward [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Nature: “Bee Futures” by Vaughan Stanger [Science Fiction Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 5: The Land of No Respect – “Sylvia Fo and the Magic Mirror” [Epic Fantasy]

Audio

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies Podcast #103 – “The Clockwork Trollop” by Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald [Fantasy]
• Beware the Hairy Mango #154 – “The Skin I’m Not Quite In” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MuchMangoMayo – Maybe Self Acceptance]
• @Clarkesworld: “Soulcatcher” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
• Drabblecast #281 – Doubleheader XII [Weird]
• Escape Pod #394 – “Good Hunting” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
• PodCastle #258 – “The Discriminating Monster’s Guide to the Perils of Princess Snatching” by Scott M. Roberts [Fantasy]

Audio – Serialized

• @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Dick Dynamo the Fifth Dimensional Man! – Episode #7 – The Last [Science Fiction Comedy]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Inception (The Catherine Kimbridge Chronicles #1) by Andrew Beery [Military Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
  • On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington) by David Weber [Military Science Fiction Novel]
  • Road Kill: A Dan Shamble Adventure (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI) by Kevin J. Anderson [Zombie Detective Novel]
  • Whom God Would Destroy by Commander Pants [Science Fiction Comedy Novel]
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #120 – May 02, 2013 [Fantasy Magazine – EPUB, MOBI]
• Indian SF #3 – May / June 2013 [Speculative Fiction Magazine – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]
• @Project Gutenberg: The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs [Ghost Story Collection] (also available as audiobook)

Free Audiobooks

• @LibriVox: The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs [Ghost Story Collection]

Excerpts

• @Paizo: Sample Chapter from Pirate’s Honor by Chris A. Jackson – Chapter One: Stars Never Lie [Fantasy]