Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 7/31/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Aphelion #175.17 – July 2013
- Black Petals #64 – July 15, 2013
- SFFAudio Podcast #223 – The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Written
- @AE: “Off-Campus Housing” by Holly Schofield [Science Fiction]
- Aphelion #175.17 – July 2013: [Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine]
- “Little Green Things” by William R. Warren, Jr.
- “Illegally Parked UFO” by N. E. Riggs
- “Court Dresser” by Roderick D. Turner
- “Sprint Hack” by Zac Miller
- “The Perfect Meal” by Stanley Wilkin
- “Soigné Voyage” by George Schaade
- “Rip Tide” by James Neale
- “Almost Done” by Andrew Saxsma
- “The Emperor’s Servant” by Owen Harrison
- “Kebakarania” by Christy Boston
- Black Petals #64 – July 15, 2013: [Horror Magazine]
- “A Matter of Principle” by Felicia Lee
- “Calendula and the Other Man” by Charlie C. Cole
- “Holiday Greetings from the Witness Protection Program” by Charlie C. Cole
- “Murder Scene-Fiction” by Bradley Nies
- “The Day I Started Believing” by George G. Economou
- “The Fortune Teller-Fiction” by Harold Kempka
- “The Last Day of the Ugly Man” by Charlie C. Cole
- “The Monkey Who Talked Too Much” by Charlie C. Cole
- “The Unholy Birth of Kitty” by K.P. Hooker
- “The Hartfield Creature” by Dominic Lennard
- @The Colored Lens:
- “Illuminate: A History and a Future” by Sadie Mattox [Science Fiction]
- “Once More, onto the Beach” by S. R. Algernon [Science Fiction]
- @Phantasmacore:
- “XVI and Deek Escape in the Night” by R.J. Astruc [Science Fiction]
- “Letters from Utopia” by RJ Astruc and Andy Astruc [Science Fiction]
- “The Spider Will Die” by Bird Marathe [Historical Fantasy]
- @Strange Horizons: “Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken” by Elizabeth Ziemska [Time Travel] (also available in audio)
- @Author’s Site: “Coin of the Realm” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Fantasy]
Written – Flash
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Breaking Orbit” by Rachael Acks [Contemporary Fantasy]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Schrodinger’s Spat” by Peter Wood [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 3 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
- @Author’s Site: The Gravity of the Affair by Michael J. Martinez – Part XII [Historical Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 10 – The Secrets of Magic: [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Glactic Bedtime Stories #9: “The Draw” by Jerome Bixby [Science Fiction Western]
- AntiSF Radio Show #180 [Speculative Fiction]
- Beware the Hairy Mango #187 – “Nuts Aur Us” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [Dismangography]
- Cast of Wonders #88 – “Dragon Art” by Christopher Partin [YA Fantasy]
- @Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: [Horror]
- “The Art of Jacob Emory” by Peter Divine
- “The Thief” by Steven Long
- @Clarkesworld:
- “The Dust Assassin” by Ian McDonald [Science Fiction]
- “The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory [Science Fiction]
- Desert Gems Audio #11 – “Tale of the Three Apples”, translated by Sir Richard Burton [Arabian Nights]
- Every Day Fiction Podcast #128 – “Repossession” by Peter Wood [Science Fiction]
- Protecting Project Pulp #55 – “Mother of Toads” by Clark Ashton Smith [Weird Fantasy – from 1938]
- SFFAudio Podcast #223 – The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka [Dark Fantasy]
- StarShipSofa #300 – Harry Turtledove Special [Science Fiction]
- @Strange Horizons: “Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken” by Elizabeth Ziemska [Time Travel]
Audio – Serialized
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- The Crooked God Machine by Autumn Christian [Dystopian Science Fiction Novel]
- Dark Side of the Moon by Ahmad Taylor [Science Fiction Novel]
- Dark Wings (Never Dark Book 1) by Skyla Madi [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Destiny (Salem Trilogy: Book I) by ShawnMarie Cullity and Brianna Jedlicka [YA Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Shadewright (Shadewright Cycle #1) by Dean McMillin [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Siege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1) by Michael G. Thomas [Military Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- The Sunset Prophecy (Love & Armageddon #1) by P.J. Day [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – FIrst of Series]
Excerpts
- @Weird Fiction Review: Excerpt from Anonym by Eric Basso [Weird]
