Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 8/21/2013
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What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Apex has two versions of the same story by K. Allen Wood
- Baen has excerpted stories from The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7 and The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five
- Lovecraft eZine #26 – August 2013
- It’s apparently Edward W. Robertson Day, with a pile of books free on Amazon.
- QuasarDragon has found an even bigger pile of free Greg Egan stories, to mark that author’s birthday
Written
- @Apex: For Long Days to Come: Two versions of a story by K. Allen Wood: [Zombies]
- “And It’ll Haunt Me (For Long Days to Come)” [from Mountain Dead]
- “For Long Days to Come” [from Appalachian Undead]
- @Baen: [via Free Speculative Fiction Online]
- From The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7:
- “The Contrary Gardener” by Christopher Rowe [Science Fiction]
- “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times” by Eleanor Arnason [Fantasy]
- “Close Encounters” by Andy Duncan [Science Fiction]
- “Great-Grandmother in the Cellar” by Peter S. Beagle [Fantasy]
- “The Easthound” by Nalo Hopkinson [Fantasy]
- From The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five: [Horror]
- “Nikishi” by Lucy Taylor
- “Little America” by Dan Chaon
- “A Natural History of Autumn” by Jeffrey Ford
- “Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
- “Tender as Teeth” by Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski
- “The Callers” by Ramsey Campbell
- From The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 7:
- @The Colored Lens: “Fossil Fire” by John Zaharick [Urban Fantasy]
- @Lightspeed:
- “End Game” by Nancy Kress [Science Fiction]
- “Breathless in the Deep” by Cory Skerry [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
- Lovecraft eZine #26 – August 2013: [Lovecraftian Horror Magazine]
- “The Crevasse” by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
- “Cement Shoe Cthulhu” by Derek Ferreira
- “Between” by William Meikle
- “The Moon’s Architecture” by Graham Lowther
- “The Arkham Terror” by Pete Rawlik
- “The Pariah” by Bruce Durham
- @Strange Horizons: “A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)” by Seth Dickinson [Speculative Fiction] (also available in audio)
- @Tor: “Warm Up” by V.E. Schwab [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “Killing Time” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Science Fiction]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: “Intentional Paradox” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Nova Verba, Mundus Novus” by Ken Liu [Magic Realism Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Giuseppe’s Boughs” by Brandon Nolta [Fantasy Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “And the Darkness Fell” by Dawn Napier [Horror Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @HiLobrow: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Part 6 [Science Fiction – from 1915]
- @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 #12: “Ask a Foolish Question” by Robert Sheckley [Science Fiction – from 1953]
- @Lightspeed: “Breathless in the Deep” by Cory Skerry [Fantasy]
- PodCastle #274 – “Far as You Can Go” by Greg van Eekhout [Fantasy]
- StarShipSofa #301 – “Limited Edition” by Tim Maughan [Science Fiction]
- @Strange Horizons: “A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)” by Seth Dickinson [Speculative Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- The Academician – Southern Swallow Book I (Nan Ya) by Edward C. Patterson [Historical Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Breakers Series by Edward W. Robertson: [Post-Apocalyptic]
- Breakers (Book 1) [Novel – First of Series]
- Outcome (Breakers) [Related Novella]
- The Cutting Room: Episode I by Edward W. Robertson [Science Fiction Adventure Short Story – First of Series]
- The Emerald Talisman (Talisman Series, Book 1) by Brenda Pandos [YA Paranormal Novel – First of Series]
- Enchantress (The Evermen Saga, Book One) by James Maxwell [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Extinction Level (Secret Apocalypse Book 2) by James Harden [Post Apocalyptic Novel – Second of Series]
- Flight (The Alchemists of Galena: Book One) by Heather Robson [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – First of Series]
- Forever After: Affliction (Forever After Book 2) by David Jester [Dark Urban Fantasy Novelette – Second of Series]
- Lady of Devices (Magnificent Devices) by Shelley Adina [Steampunk Adventure Novel – First of Series]
- On Fallen Wings by Jamie McHenry [YA Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Parallel Lives by Lori Lucero [Time Travel Novel]
- The Sword of Sighs (The Age of the Flame: Book One) by Greg James [YA Dark Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Stray (Touchstone) by Andrea K Höst [YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel – First of Series]
- Where Bluebirds Fly (Synesthesia-Shift Series) by Brynn Chapman [Historical Fantasy Romance Novel]
- The White Tree (The Cycle of Arawn) by Edward W. Robertson [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- @Apex: Mountain Dead [Supplemental Material from Appalachian Undead]:
QuasarDragon Birthdays – Free Fiction from authors on the anniversary of their birth
- August 20th:
Excerpts
- @The Geek Curmudgeon: Excerpt from Ray Guns Over Texas – Preview from “Sovereign Wealth” by Chris N. Brown [Science Fiction]
- @Tor:
- Excerpt from The Grim Company by Luke Scull [Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Ragnarok and Roll by Keith DeCandido [Fantasy]
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