Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 7/3/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
Written
- Apex #50 – July 2013:
- “To Die for Moonlight” by Sarah Monette [Horror]
- “Abomination Rises on Filthy Wings” by Rachel Swirsky [Horror]
- “The Constable of Abal” by Kelly Link [Fantasy]
- Audio: Apex Podcast #1 – “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky [Paleolithic]
- @Book View Cafe: “The Viper in Tulum” by Leah Cutter [Fantasy]
- Clarkesworld #82 – July 2013:
- “Pockets Full of Stones” by Vajra Chandrasekera [Science Fiction]
- “I Tell Thee All, I Can No More” by Sunny Moraine [Science Fiction]
- “Across the Terminator” by David Tallerman [Science Fiction]
- “The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” by Daryl Gregory [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- “The Dust Assassin” by Ian McDonald [Science Fiction – Reprint]
- @GigaNotoSaurus: “A Man Not of Canaan” by Alex Jeffers [Historical Fantasy] (also available as eBook)
- @Lightspeed:
- “Division of Labor” by Benjamin Roy Lambert [Science Fiction] (also available in audio)
- “Golden Apple” by Sophia McDougall [Fantasy]
- SQ Mag #9 -1st July 2013: [Speculative Fiction Magazine]
- “Better Than Everything” by Malon Edwards [Dystopian Science Fiction]
- “Blockbuster” by Rik Hoskin [Science Fiction]
- “Born Again” by Nu Yang [Horror]
- “Cattails” by A P Sessler [Fantasy]
- Flash Fiction: “Trophy” by Jason Lairamore [Historic Horror Flash]
- Serialized Fiction: Intangible by A.A. Garrison – Part 4 of 6 [Fantasy]
- @Tor: “The Monsters of Heaven” by Nathan Ballingrud [Fantasy – Excerpt from the collection North American Lake Monsters]
- @Author’s Site: “Twenty Years Later, By Separation Peak” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Alternate History]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Hands and Eyes” by Duncan Shields
- “Matchmaker” by George R. Shirer
- “Penalty Claws” by Jae Miles
- “Titan” by Bob Skoggins
- @Daily Science Fiction:
- “Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall” by Usman T Malik [Magic Realism Flash]
- “All Kinds to Make a World” by Georgina Bruce [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction:
- “Three Red Roses” by Rebecca Birch [Fairy Tale Flash]
- “Trampled” by Harding McFadden [Surreal Flash]
- Kazka Press #2.11 – July 2013: [Fantasy Flash Magazine]
- “Pop Culture” by Bernard S Gaidasz
- “Things Found” by Danielle N. Gales
- “Enteral Feeding” by Gary B. Phillips
- @SQ Mag: “Trophy” by Jason Lairamore [Historic Horror Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @SQ Mag: Intangible by A.A. Garrison – Part 4 of 6 [Fantasy]
Audio
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Brown Monkey’s “The Dreams in the Witch-House” [Horror / Comedy]
- Apex Podcast #1 – “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky [Paleolithic]
- @Clarkesworld: “Dead Men Walking” by Paul J. McAuley [Science Fiction]
- Drabblecast #285 – “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” by Andy Duncan and “Prosopagnosia” by Ken Liu [Fantasy / Comedy]
- @Lightspeed: “Division of Labor” by Benjamin Roy Lambert [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: THE MVP Episode #38 by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction – Final Episode]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Blood Harvest (The Hidden Amongst Us) by Michael Weinberger [Urban Fantasy Novel]
- Dead, but Not for Long by Matthew Kinney and Lesa Kinney Anders [Horror Novel]
- Flame Moon by K.J. Jackson [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Hounds of Autumn by Heather Blackwood [Alternate History / Mystery Novel]
- Reversion: The Inevitable Horror (The Portal Arcane Series – Book I) by J. Thorn [Horror Novel – First of Series]
- Sons of the Exiled (The Exiled Series) by David Wayman [Middle Grade / YA Fantasy Novel]
- @GigaNotoSaurus: “A Man Not of Canaan” by Alex Jeffers [Historical Fantasy – EPUB]
- @Project Gutenberg: Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories, Edited by Moses Gaster [Folk Tale Collection – EPUB, MOBI – from 1915]
Excerpts
- @Tor:
- Excerpt from The Curiosity by Stephen P Kiernan [Technothriller]
- “The Monsters of Heaven” by Nathan Ballingrud [Fantasy – Excerpt from the collection North American Lake Monsters]
- Excerpt from Starglass by Phoebe North [YA Science Fiction]
- Read a Page From Every Story in Unfettered, Edited by Shawn Speakman [Fantasy]
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