Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/7/2013
Another high profile theft from Dave Tackett’s QuasarDragon and/or medicine cabinet.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Big Pulp has a science fiction story from Court Merrigan
- Enchanted Conversation has a fairy tale from Lissa Sloan
- Galaxy’s Edge #2
- Kasma SF has some flash fiction from Ken Liu
Written
- @Big Pulp: “Paula” by Court Merrigan [Science Fiction]
- @Black Gate: “Devotion” by Robert Rhodes [Fantasy]
- @Cosmos: “The Pinocchio Complex” by Sarina Dorie [Science Fiction]
- @Electric Velocipede: “The Tempting: A Love Story” by James Alan Gardner [Science Fiction]
- @Enchanted Conversation: “The Curious Tale of Mr. Fox” by Lissa Sloan [Fairy Tale]
- Galaxy’s Edge #2:
- “Effect and Cause” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction]
- “Today I Am Nobody” by Tina Gower [Fantasy]
- “The Flamingo Girl” by Brad R. Torgersen [Science Fiction]
- “Ghost in the Machine” by Ralph Roberts [Science Fiction]
- “Sparkler” by Gio Clairval [Science Fiction]
- “Child of the Gods” by Bruce McAllister [Science Fiction]
- Reprints:
- “Aliens Ate My Pickup” by Mercedes Lackey [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- “When We Went to See the End of the World” by Robert Silverberg [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- “Happily Ever After” by C. L. Moore [Fantasy – Reprint]
- “Rex” by David Gerrold [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- “Echea” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- “The Feynman Saltation” by Charles Sheffield [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Oenophilia” by Megan Vogel [Science Fiction]
- @The WiFiles: “The Door” by Jennifer Cox [Horror]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “English Club” by Kevin Tidball
- “Fregh and Young Brawl at the Skev” by Alex Grover
- “Never More Than Half a Billion” by Clint Wilson
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Shades Of The Father” by M. Adrian Sellers [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction:
- “Destiny Fell in Love” by Michelle Ann King [Fantasy Flash]
- “Mowed” by Jessica McHugh [Horror Microfiction]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Mort’s Crossing, Population 10” by Flechewoun?ds [Horror Flash]
- @Kasma SF: “Sungrazers” by Ken Liu [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Quantum Muse: “The Smell of Death…” by Sergio Palumbo [Horror Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Leaf and Bird: Wayfarers – Chapter Three, Part Four [Cyberpunk]
- @Legend of the Five Rings: Coils of Madness by Seth Mason & Robert Denton – Part 1 [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Remnants by Daniel Powell – Chapter Six: A Glimpse of the City [Apocalyptic]
- @Author’s Site: Spanner Jack by Keith Melton – Chapter Two [Urban Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 5: The Land of No Respect – “Benjamin Miller and the Magic Mirror” [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- @Beware the Hairy Mango by Matthew Sanborn Smith: [MuchoMangoMayo]
- Cast of Wonders #78 – “The Giant Who Dreamed of Summer” by Jess Hyslop [YA Fantasy]
- Toasted Cake #70 – “Sapience and Maternal Instincts” by Krystal Claxton [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- Beam Me Up #364, including “No Great Magic” by Fritz Lieber, Part 2 and the first part of a story by David Scholes [Science Fiction]
- Cthulhu Podcast #148 – “The House on the Borderland” – Part 26 – Final Part by William Hope Hodgson [Horror]
- @Author’s Site: THE MVP Episode #30 by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Dominant Species Volume Three — Acquired Traits by David Coy [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – Third of Series]
- The Girl Who Would Be King by Kelly Thompson [YA Superhero Novel]
- The Information Thieves by ML Katz [Post-Apocalyptic Novella]
- On Fallen Wings by Jamie McHenry [YA Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Out of Time – 2 Strange Tales by Milo James Fowler [Two Science Fiction Short Stories]
- The Sea Hag by David Drake [Fantasy Novel]
- The Second Intelligent Species: The Cyclical Earth by Dale Langlois [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- @Project Gutenberg: Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1935] (also available as audiobook)
Free Audiobooks
- @LibriVox: Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1935]
Excerpts
- @HarperFiction (via Issu): Excerpt from The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes [Supernatural Thriller]
- @Tor:
- Excerpt from The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner [Horror]
- Excerpt from Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox [YA Fantasy]
