Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/14/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Lightspeed has a story from Alastair Reynolds that first appeared in Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction
- Strange Horizons has a story from Kate MacLeod (also in audio)
- The first three books of Robert J. Duperre‘s The Rift Horror Series are free on Amazon
Written
- @The Atlantic: “Missed Connection” – via Craigslist [Magic Realism / Craigslist]
- @The Colored Lens: “Garden of Little Angels” by Kevin Kekic [Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed:
- “At Budokan” by Alastair Reynolds [Science Fiction]
- “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
- @Strange Horizons: “Din Ba Din” by Kate MacLeod [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Skin Deep” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Art of War” by Desmond Hussey [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Sparg” by Brian Trent [Science Fiction Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 5 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
- @Author’s Site: Tickling Butterflies by Guy Hasson – Part 10 – The Secrets of Magic – “Why is the Sun Silent?” [Epic Fantasy]
Audio
- @19 Nocturne Boulevard: Atomic Julie’s Glactic Bedtime Stories #11: “Compensation” by C.V. Tench [Science Fiction – from 1930]
- @Lightspeed: “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” by Ken Liu [Fantasy]
- Protecting Project Pulp #57 – “The Shadow on the Doorstep” by James Blaylock [Horror]
- @Strange Horizons: “Din Ba Din” by Kate MacLeod [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- A Lady of the Realm (House of DeDe) by Sharon E Mamolo [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Convergence (Journey to Nyorfias #1) by T. M. Roy [Military Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- The Kinshield Legacy (The Kinshield Saga) by K.C. May [Sword & Sorcery Novel – First of Series]
- Kiss Of Fire (Imdalind Series #1) by Rebecca Ethington [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Realm Keepers: Episode One by Garrett Robinson and Z. C. Bolger [YA Sword & Sorcery Novella – First of Series]
- The Rift Series by Robert J. Duperre: [Horror Novel Series]
- Samson’s Lovely Mortal (Scanguards Vampires #1) by Tina Folsom [Gothic Romance Novel – First of Series]
- The Whispers of The Sprite (The Whispers series #1) by Joanna Mazurkiewicz [YA Urban Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Witch in the Wind (Bandit Creek) by Brenda M. Collins [New Adult Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
- The Year We Finally Solved Everything by Rudolf Kerkhoven [Contemporary Fantasy Novella]
QuasarDragon Birthdays – Free Fiction from authors on the anniversary of their birth
- August 9th: John Varley and Frank M. Robinson
- August 11th: Alan Edward Nourse
- August 12th: Elaine Cunningham
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