Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 6/21/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- The new and interesting online magazine Nautilus has a story from K.G. Jewell
- The World SF Blog closes off an amazing four years with a story from Ido Sokolovsky
- Red Penny Papers has a three-episode serial from Jeffrey Wooten
Written
- @Nautilus: “Know When to Hold ‘Em” by K.G. Jewell [Science Fiction]
- @The World SF Blog: “Smile of the Monster” by Ido Sokolovsky [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Party for Two” by Kevin Richards [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Dark, Beautiful Force” by Jessica May Lin [Superhero Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “Like Fallen Pieces of an Old Picket Fence” by Van Hall [Horror Flash]
- @Nature: “Buzz Off” by John Grant [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Paizo: A Matter of Knives by Ed Greenwood – Chapter Three: An End to All Skulking Games [Fantasy]
- @Red Penny Papers: God on High or the Devil Below by Jeffrey Wooten: [Dark Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 8: The Storytellers: [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- AntiSF Radio Show #179 [Speculative Fiction Stories and more]
- Drabblecast #285 – Doubleheader XIII (“Locked In” and “Clockwork Chickadee” by Mary Robinette Kowal) [Fantasy]
- Hypnobobs #119 – “The Man Who Went Too Far” by EF Benson [Horror]
- PodCastle #265 – “The Copperroof War” by Megan Arkenberg [Fantasy]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- AfterLife by S. P. Cloward [Urban Fantasy Novel]
- Birth of the Nyxian (The Immortal Choice Series) by Amanda R. Browning [Dark Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Deliverer (The Marenon Chronicles Book 1 of 3) by Jason D. Morrow [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Icarus Void by CK Burch [Military Science Fiction Novel]
- The Lady Astronomer by Katy O’Dowd [Alternate History Novel]
- Pinhole by Matthew Kagle [Science Fiction Novel]
- Shadow of the Sun (The Shadow Saga) by Merrie P. Wycoff [Alternate History Novel]
- Timecaster by JA Konrath [Science Fiction Novel]
- Planetary Stories #28 – June 2013 [Science Fiction Magazine – PDF]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1934] (also available as audiobook)
- Nightmare Planet by Murray Leinster [Science Fiction Novelette – from 1953]
Free Audiobooks
- @LibriVox: A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard [Conan the Cimmerian Novelette – from 1934]
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