Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 7/17/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Do NOT miss the latest eBooks and posts from Dave Tackett and his QuasarDragon
- Indian SF #4 – July-August 2013
- Strange Horizons has an unusual story from C. S. E. Cooney, with illustrations by Rebecca Huston
Written
- @The Colored Lens: “Primordial” by Jamie Killen [Science Fiction]
- Indian SF #4 – July-August 2013: [Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine]
- “Good Luck, Random Citizen” by Harshad Deshmukh
- “What You Can Change” by Michael Haynes
- “Terminal Illness” by D. F. Huettner
- Flash Fiction: “Drawn To The Glow” by K. C. Ball
- @Lightspeed:
- “Cancer” by Ryan North [Science Fiction] (also available in audio)
- “Ushakiran” by Laura Friis [Fantasy]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “On Dragon Eyes” by Sarah Frost [Dragons]
- @Short-Story.me: “The Priory” by Daniel Ayiotis [Horror]
- @Strange Horizons: “Ten Cigars” by C. S. E. Cooney, with illustrations by Rebecca Huston [Speculative Fiction]
- @Weird Fiction Review: “Wunderkindergarten” by Marc Laidlaw [Weird]
- @Wily Writers: “Profiles in Survival” by Simon McCaffery [Alternate History]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Inferiority Complex” by Bob Newbell [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “The Dark” by Yancy Caruthers [Surreal Flash]
- @Indian SF: “Drawn To The Glow” by K. C. Ball
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 1 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
- @Legend of the Five Rings: The Sparrow’s Fate by Robert Denton – Part 2 [Shared World Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: The Gravity of the Affair by Michael J. Martinez – Part XI [Historical Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 9: To Sacrifice a King – “Chariot’s Return” [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Bedtime Stories #7: “No Moving Parts” by Murray F. Yaco [Science Fiction]
- Beware the Hairy Mango #186 – “Bravissimo” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Deliziosi Mango]
- @Clarkesworld: “Across the Terminator” by David Tallerman [Science Fiction]
- Drabblecast #289 – “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin [Science Fiction]
- Every Photo Tells #122 – “The Voyage Home” by Jeffrey Hite [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “Cancer” by Ryan North [Science Fiction]
- Protecting Project Pulp #53 – “The Hand of the Mandarin Quong” by Sax Rohmer [Supernatural Mystery – from 1916]
- @Strange Horizons: “Ten Cigars” by C. S. E. Cooney, with illustrations by Rebecca Huston
- @Wily Writers: “Profiles in Survival” by Simon McCaffery [Alternate History]
Audio – Serialized
- Beam Me Up #374 – Conclusion of In the Mourning by Edward McKeown [Science Fiction]
- Cthulhu #153 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft – Part 5 of 5 [Horror]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Blood Warrior (The Alexa Montgomery Saga #1) by H. D. Gordon [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Enlightened (Love and Light Series) by Melissa Lummis [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
- The Exile’s Violin (Tethys Chronicles) by R.S. Hunter [Steampunk Novel]
- The Hand of God by Tony Acree [Horror Novel]
- Morning Star (Ethos #1) by Desiree Finkbeiner [Urban Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Mulogo’s Treatise on Wizardry – A Wizard’s Guide to Survival in a World Where People Want to Kill You and Take Your Stuff by Joseph J. Bailey [Fantasy / Comedy]
- The Road to Magic (Book 1 of the Way of the Demon Series) by Alexey Glushanovsky [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Scrapyard Incident (Junkyard Dogs #1) by Phillip Nolte [Military Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- The Secret Apocalypse by James Harden [Post Apocalyptic Novel – First of Series]
- The Universal Mirror by Gwen Perkins [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- @Project Gutenberg:
- Fairy Tales from Spain by J. Munoz Escomez [Fairy Tale Collection – from 1913]
- Gladiator by Philip Wylie [Science Fiction Novel – from 1930] (also available as audiobook)
- The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage [Let’s call it a “Proto Magic Realism” Novel – from 1831] (also available as audiobook)
Audiobooks
- @LibriVox:
- Gladiator by Philip Wylie [Science Fiction Novel – from 1930]
- The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage [Let’s call it a “Proto Magic Realism” Novel – from 1831]
Excerpts
- @Gollancz: Excerpt from Charm by Sarah Pinborough – Chapter One [Dark Fantasy]
- @Harper Voyager: Excerpt from Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey [Contemporary Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Heaven’s Shadow by David S Goyer and Michael Cassutt [Science Fiction Thriller]
Other
- @Tor: Experience NASA Firsthand—Rocket Launch Included—In This New Comic by Alison Wilgus [Comic Book about NASA]
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