Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/1/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- The final installment of HiLobrow‘s serialization of The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle
- The first half of Season 2 of Our Fair City
- Plasma Frequency #7 – August/September 2013 as EPUB, MOBI, or PDF
Written
- @Tor: “All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead” by Dennis Danvers [Magic Realism]
Written – Flash
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Sticks and Stones” by Kevin Pickett [Time Travel Flash]
- @Nature: “Surrendered human” by Deborah Walker [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle – Chapter 20 of 20 [Science Fiction – from 1923]
Audio
- Drabblecast #290 – “The Screaming Door” by Hampus Flink [Mystery / Weird]
- Every Photo Tells #123 – “A Brand New Cupid” by A.F. Grappin [Fantasy]
- PodCastle #271 – “Nightfall in the Scent Garden” by Claire Humphrey [Fantasy]
Audio – Serialized
- Our Fair City – Season 2 (first half): [Campy Post-Apocalyptic Epic]
- Episode 1 – “In From the Cold”
- Episode 2 – “Chance Meetings”
- Episode 3 – “Mole Fight!”
- Episode 4 – “A Warm Welcome”
- Episode 5 – “Herbert West: Prince of Denmark”
- Episode 6 – “She’s Alive!”
- Episode 7 – “Matters of the Heart”
- Episode 8 – “A Night on the Town”
- Episode 9 – “The Gang’s All Faire”
- Holiday Special
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- “Blood Fugue”, Moonsongs Book 1 by E.J. Wesley [Urban Fantasy Short Story – First of Series]
- Dead Highways – 1: “Coma” by Richard Brown [Post-Apocalyptic Short Story – First of Series]
- Descended (Fallen Guardian Saga #1) by Debra Ann Miller [YA Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Entanglement by Dan Rix [YA Dystopian Romance Novel]
- Sword of the Ronin (The Ronin Trilogy #2) by Travis Heermann [Historical Fantasy Novel – Second of Series]
- “The Wandering Earth” by Cixin Liu [Science Fiction Short Story]
- Plasma Frequency #7 – August/September 2013 [Speculative Fiction Magazine – EPUB, MOBI, PDF]
Excerpts
- @Gollancz: Excerpt from Evening’s Empires by Paul McAuley – Chapter 1 [Science Fiction]
- @Suvudu: Excerpt from The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough [Science Fiction]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Billy Moon by Douglas Lain [Magic Realism]
- @Author’s Site: Excerpt from Right to Know by Edward Willett [Space Opera]
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