Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 7/17/2013

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Regan Wolfrom in Free Fiction // 0 Comments

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What’s special about today’s free fiction?

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]